Chad G.

Yes Hansel, I found the 1911 date and exact day applied for and the day the US govt. granted Akro rights to the trademark from the National marble Museum, Museum of American Glass in West Virginias archives, That's where I read the patented info I couldn't copy or post. Still confusing why they wouldn't insist on stamping that 1931 logo with their trademarked crow on the ad?? Well established and reputable, highly recognizable, especially when everyone was scraping for change during the depression. Well I'm learning alot of history and provenance along the way, always had a general idea but now nailed it down to the day. "Thanks for the post Hansel" Great piece of provenance you have there !! Good luck on the ad, I'm still digging also, hopefully one of us, or someone will come up with some form of answer.

Thanks Tommy !! We'll wait and see who thinks what ??

Thanks!! I gotta get me some eggs and a vortex or two from Ferguson, i like to stare down into them, I think it's incredible how they do that.

I just started to get back to corks, lookin for the rarer colors like the royal blue I got yesterday, a beautiful mib as all Akros are, collecting seems to come in stages "sometimes"

I just got a 3/4 royal blue like your 4th mib yesterday, great mibs Bruce "Thanks for the pix " I couldn't find a pic of the royal blue but you have it's brother.

Maybe a nice pic of the area in question would clear this one up. Tommy if you could get a nice clear shot like the one of the other side it would be greatly appreciated.

x 2, Agreed, egg yolk ox. definitely not a popeye, no whispy white stranding, a qualifier for a popeye. A close up of the white stranding in a popeye, always suspended in a "clear base" glass matrix. Though many consider these UV. corks pop eyes the stranding is not white, therefore not a popeye a special. The whispy "white" strands are a requirement for it to be a popeye. I have seen Popeyes with uv. and the white stranding riding along side it in the clear base glass, a "hybrid" popeye. Many will argue the point but the base requirement of a popeye is the whispy white strands and a clear base.

Looks kinda like a rainbow on one side and MCS on the other, odd's the word, good one Ric.

Corkscrew I.D. : With acknowledgment, thanks and credit given to; {MCSA} MARBLE COLLECTORS SOCIETY OF AMERICA

" HAPPY AKRO FRIDAY " WOW !! Friday came fast. Just yesterday I acquired, a deep royal blue base with reddish orange corking color, an orange ringer a few unusual pelt rainbows and a 25/32nds killer wet red slag, wildest pattern I've ever seen on a slag. It is uv. but doesn't display any CAC characteristics, a puzzle but a very nice mib. I haven't even taken pix yet so a few to look @ while we wait.

This is my first contemp and favorite Ferguson. Also some Salazar, Gibson, Sweet and a tiger by McCullough. I just got some hot house glass and some Geoffrey Beetem. I'll take pix as soon as they get here, I have a 42 place wall display to fill with 1.45 to 1.59 mibs, thus far 7 so a ways to go. The alien egg was my first contemp & I'm gaining interest in some of his vortex mibs also. " Nice egg collection man " Just found one of the Hot House mib 1.53" I traded a friend for a few 5/8ths doubles I had, I like the Av. in it. My first and biggest Salazar I found in a jar of cats at a yard sale, the other I bought with another angelfish and a moon & stars from Dave at the Seattle show.

The amber mib appears to be just a clearie with a chip or hit, looks like the glass is missing, sometimes the glass remains and you get a moon or fingernail reflection, the others are just cats, the protruding spot on the cat is a manufacture defect, no handmades, all machine made. No foreign, even the cats look American or maybe Japanese. Thanks for the post Tommy !!

Yuuuum !! Pelts, Deeeeliciouse 😋 !! Actually I like em all, "Great mibs" Thanks for the pics marboman

Yes Ric I agree, they are Jabo, I just came back to change my reply and you beat me to it, a little to structured for Vitro's. I looked closer and theres even some green av. in the middle one, what was I thinkin ?? Sorry for the miss I.D. Sonoran.

All three look Vitro to me !! ( NOT ) I'll just hide so you'll never know who gave the reply

I have a large collection of handmades, and yes the prices on the ones 1.5 & 2.5 are holding but even the high mint smaller ones I have, have lost a little in value, no matter to me I like them just the same, a lot of hard work and actual attention to detail is instilled in them. Manmade not pumped out by the millions by a machine but by human hands, from the creation of the glass to the stretching of the canes as prep just to make the marble, I have a great appreciation for all marble makers, hot, sweaty, hard work even at the newer manufacturers.

Good one Ron, if his cloud has any size to it he'll do ok but there is a little wear damage, looks like some pitting & pins from the pic, but like you said Ron, if it's over an inch it'll still fetch a decent price.

first one looks like master, second looks like an Akro slag ??

I was trying to find out why the crow doesn't appear in the 1931 magazine ad when they already had went through all the trouble to get the crow trademark in 1911 ?? Seems like that would have been a main selling point, middle of the great depression and Akro had already built a good name as far as mibs went ?? just wondering why the different trademark when they went to all that trouble to get the crow in the first place if they weren't going to make sure they used it, especially in a sales ad ?? just kind of puzzling to me !! Yes I've seen the new Akro red boxes and marbles they're putting in them. Where are they getting the marbles to fill the boxes?? not making them themselves, the marbles look foreign made to me ??

E.O.D. Cloud, little on the rare side, what's the size on it Ric ?? Most of them where below an inch.

Did some more diggin on the Akro trademark in the 1931 mag. add. In March 23 1911, the Akro Agate Co. applied for the Akro Agate Trademark. On Aug 22, 1911 it was registered with the United States Government. Akro was in operation from 1910 thru 1951. just a little Akro history, I realize It still doesn't explain the 1931 ad, I'm still workin on that one, found this info on the trademark on the way.

Better in focus a bit more, a 3 stage with solid green av. veins with sparkles of blue in it. Also a ribbon core with mica, only on one side but I have yet to find another like it. These marbles are all clean though the amount of bubbles may look like damage, none come to the surface or have popped, I believe the ribbon core ha slight pocket wear and 1 fleabite. This is also a 3 stage, pinkish red core w/ surrounding white lines and outer yellow and blue bands, an odd bird.

Shure is boring here in the honeycomb hideout !!! Kinda empty !! I do believe I see spider webs beginning to form ?? " MARKO " ????

I hope Bruce (Berryb) got at least that much out of all that babble I wrote !!

The {MCSA} Google, "Marble Collectors Society of America" Bob Block runs the site, his phone # is right there if you have any questions, I've called him several times, yes in fact that is Bobs quote that's where I got the info : The 9 is" M.F. Christensen & sons "( The one with the seam you have is a " CAC" Christensen Agate Company ) the cut line Hansel is talking about in almost all of them is absolutely uh !! what "Welcome to the land of confusion" Like Steph, I don' know what to say !! Read this one Bruce, I still don't have everything straight in my head " marble overload " "Never mind" foiled by copywrite laws again, how do they expect us to ever learn, everyone wants to keep the information so they can make a buck on it, while we dig for scraps " ridiculous" I found a fantastic history of "MFC' akro and CAC but can't post the link because of copywrite laws. It's a couple pages long and explains everything. This sucks, I have so much to share but can't because of those stupid laws. I guess it's not the laws just the people who twist them to "their advantage" Sorry Bruce my hands are tied once again by the "constraints of copywrite laws" a long explanation "google" History of "MFC, CAC & Akro" if you look hard enough you'll be as confused as me, but you will find your answers. As you can tell I to am still a little lost on all this, "a small brain for so much info " I would like to just post a couple links but then that wouldn't be right. Maybe someone else could explain it in shorter order, or better than me, the history is quite extensive with a lot of dates involved.