Chad G.

Out of all the Christensen I've ever seen, that would be the one I would have no problem owning but the cost was way out of my realm at the time, I can only imagine the money it would bring now, yeah that ones a whopper alright Chuck. Guess I could've made payments ? nah !! A one in a million accident for sure, at that price I'll stick to pics. I had the marble in hand when he still owned it, and as in any mib these pix do it no justice.

I have an Akro patch with the same color scheme as your last one Bill or I never would have recognized it as Akro in a million years, I lucked out on that I.D. 😓

Well those lighters lasted a total of about 10 seconds, their gone !! Maybe if you Emailed them a mess. ?? but I doubt any left at this point.

It's called the "beggars hand" Jess, one of many tooth pic holders Akro made, I guess they waited till the cows where old and tough in those days, Akro made lots of different tooth pic holders, I'll take some pics of some more later. Be careful, Akro ware is highly addictive.

Thems some nice mibs Bruce !! The only one like those I have is the amber and yellow snake, and I consider it HTF.

Another Christensen electric orange striped opaque ( S.O. )

#1,2,3 Alleys are all killers, thanks Ron, man I love Alley, way, way, way underrated. I'm starting to enjoy Jabo also, now that someone has introduced me to them. I think maybe the plot is thickening. My Father told me when I was a little tike " the only dumb question is the one you don't ask" I'm here to learn same as you, everyone here has been more than accommodating and understanding to me, no matter how dumb I thought the question. Even going out of their way to help out. You are "welcome" here my friend . Your questions are appreciated as well.

I believe they still have a couple thousand items but you have to Email and ask, They had so much stuff last year when I was Browsing the store it took me almost 3 hrs. to take a "quick" look at everything. I've bought quite a few things there, and they've been at the same site for must be around at least 20 yrs or better. Best place I've ever seen for Akro anything. I can't believe that's all that's left, they just quit listing so much because of the covid, 4000 is a load of items to browse, I've done it, yes a great site

Sweet memories Ron, I know I really scored on most of mine, people simply don't have any idea what it is. The ashtray sets and thumb pots were where I got my big start on it I still hold the thumb pots and ash tray sets as #1 next come the tooth pics and then the rarer colored stuff of any size, pumpkin, amethyst, 2 & 3 color mixes (ox., av. and blue or red all on one piece) some very beautiful, quality made stuff. I traded off a lot of lemonade and oxblood pieces for mibs. Try to find them now !! only one place I know of and they're not cheap, Any one interested here's the link to the best Akro store I know of. Before covid came around at any given time 2 to 3000 pieces at this site, just like marbles everything is getting very hard to find. As a matter of fact this is the last place I seen one of those lighters like Ron has at. OOp, I just looked they have a commemorative Zippo Akro lighter, 2008, 12 years newer but still probably the only one like that you'll find. There were 3 made for the Akro Agate Collectors club, 1994, 1995 and 2008. There are 2, 2008 left at this point. They show the full set including the one from 1995 Ron has, they used to have them all. I'll put the pic in here also. I haven't been here in a while, man a mere pittance of what used to be here only a year ago !! By the By Ron, I started the Akro ware thing on purpose just to get some more pics from yours, Great collection, never get tired of seeing it. LINK : https://www.ebay.com/str/akroagatearsenal?_sop=16&rt=nc&_bkw=lighter other items LINK : https://www.ebay.com/str/akroagatearsenal?_sop=16&rt=nc

Mine too Ric, the two cups where thrift store finds, I think I paid $5.00 for the whole oxblood tea set, plates cups, saucers, creamer, truly they had no idea of what they had. And the pumpkin came with 2 cups 2 saucers and 2 plates stuffed into a regular sized tea set also $5.00, I sold the regular tea set for $20.00 and kept the 6 Akro pieces. Two good outcomes for me, almost everything else I paid full boat for. Consequences of the bug bite I received over half a lifetime ago, one that still itches.

Wish I still had the stuff before my divorce, Ahh well it's twice as much fun trying to track it all down again, Right ?? "Thanks Ric" the first piece of Akro I ever seen was an oxblood laden short tabbed ashtray, Akro already had me right there. 99 % of the heavy laden ox. or av. or rare colors like my fav. amethyst, black etc.. are almost unatainable any more. When you do see a good piece there is no way I would ever pay the kind of money their asking. I'll be content with a good picture in that case, I'm a collector but I'm not crazy, gonna keep it fun. Ron has the killer stuff like everyone used to have 20 yrs ago, it was easy to find then, some beautiful stuff, and surprisingly resilient for the size and being made of glass, I've dropped more than one piece, not that they all survived but most did !!

A first for me " Great mib Jess " nice pix, your little lens is working out "fantastically" What a bargain, it paid for itself the very first pic you took !!

"Thanks Bee" for the excellent post and research, a good thing to remember what type of cloth we have been cut from. That's some good stumblin, I believe I've heard it explained " There are no coincidences " a very convenient happenstance !! Hold on tight Harold. 😵

( #1 ) messed up Alley coral, ( #2) looks mighty bright to be Heaton so batch glass from "Ravenswood", ( #3) "Heaton" aaand ( #4) maybe a messed up Akro patch, I see remnants of a seam on the end there ??? You know these are all guesses Bill figured I might as well take a stab, "nothing ventured, nothing gained" Ugh!! I need to watch the video again, I got the Ravenswood batch glass messed up and miss I.D. just like in the video !!! I'm outa here before Bill gets his squad out after me

" HAPPY AKRO FRIDAY " ( mibs ) Phew !! there I'm done for a little while anyway.

"Akro" wish I had that lighter Ron has also. I had two chances at getting one on the cheap in the mid 90's but passed figuring I could get one at any time Oop's, "HAPPY AKRO FRIDAY"

I don't know if I would call yours electric Bruce but it certainly is bright, maybe different lighting or background would give a different perspective, in either case a very nice mib

Electric orange, pics from " Cat eye 1212 Lees legendary marbles store" another Christensen shown w/ & w/o flash.

The depressions in the last 2 pics are what appear to be called "dimples" Caused from a subsurface trapped air bubble that has collapsed inward on itself while the glass was still hot leaving a "smooth edged" depression in the surface of glass on the marble." A dimple "

I think maybe dirty rollers or the glass being a little to cold !! I would tend to lean on the cool glass, thinking in terms of a cold roll, "just my opinion" Jess I may be totally off on this one.

A Christensen electric yellow single seam slag, much brighter than Akro or any other companies slag. Almost neon when held in hand.

You're welcome !!

One of the best examples of electric colors I've ever seen a rare Christensen green based transparent submarine, not my marble but a friends way out of my price range, still one of if not the best I've ever seen. He sold this mib some time ago for $2500.00, now you couldn't probably touch it for $3000.00 to $4000.00 or more, immaculate shape, no fleas, asmades nothing, for a marble of it's age and type VVVHTF. An oversize Chrissy @ 21/32nds, This is about as electric and exotic as you can get. I see marbles like this in my dreams, I don't usually like Christensen but in this case I make an exception.

I just traded and sold the last of my Christensen's, but here is a picture of a Christensen striped opaque my friend Terry has, As you can see the yellow is extremely vibrant, this is the definition of an electric color, batch glass, pure color, still yours is a "nice marble Bruce" I have a great number of slags, love em, none of them Christensen, I sold, traded or gave all my Christensen away. .

x2, agreed, Vacor- Mega