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Oops not sure what happened to the pics. They were cropped and square.

Another one that I've had for years. It has a nice round pontil on one pole at start of the nine or sweral and an indented crease on the other in the white. Any help?

I'm sorry my friend, it's never easy. My thoughts are with you!

Thanks Steph How are you?

Any guesses? It's 5/8", it was in a bag of old benningtons I've had for years.

Okay, that all makes sense. I found a few that are obviously brushed / veneered. Thanks to all

Ok, I'm sure this is a dumb question but I'll ask anyway. What is a brushed marble? I'm assuming it's the surface color.

Laughing here. This is a great thread! How about that feeling of panic when you walk into a yard sale and the host is about 500 years old, you look around and notice a 6 year old with there grandma and the kid is picking up the only old 1/2 gallon blue glass jar full of marbles in the whole place. Lol. "Grammy Grammy, Hay Grammy! can I have these for my fish tank?" Grammy looks at the jar. "My lord Johnny, that's $5.00. Oh; all right, hang on to them and don't drop em!" Plotting on how to bribe the kid now. Lol

This came from marble Alan site. Akro ace

It would be fun to hear more stories about the strange power of marbles and there abilities to make humans do the unthinkable.

Haha, I can just see you tempering them slowly in stages like they were a 1988 Gibson arch top hollow body guitar. Lol

Anybody else ever been away from home knowing in your mind that you had some special marbles waiting for you at home. You have a picture of them, but haven't touched them yet. Havent picked them up and walked to the window, smelled them, tasted them. You spent hours searching the Internet for some that are a perfect match flipping back and forth between your photo and six million websites. You just know there special. You go to bed at night thinking about them and wake up thinking about them. Then reality sets in, you get a sick feeling in your gut. What if there just more wrist rocket ammo?

That's funny Ann, I love hearing kids laughing but they get there hands slapped they mess with my marbles. Lol, who knows maybe one day we can have a cup together.

Interesting, thank you all.

Thanks for the links and help! I feel at home here. I'm at work until Sunday. Work on the north slope of Alaska, in a small Eskimo village (Nuiqsut ) live in Montana. I work 3 weeks of 7 - 12s then home for 2 weeks Can't wait to get home and check out my new marbles. Pretty sure I got about twenty Aces.

Thanks for the warm welcome

Does anyone have a good picture of an Akro Agate Ace? I think some people call it a snake. White base with blue.

Just wondering if the marble companies like vacor still use uranium oxide in some of there marbles.

Hello all! I'm Bud Washburn. Im just an old guy who loves cool spring mornings, good coffee, children and marbles.