Alan

Opaque Sparklers Roger Hardy got from a former Akro employee:

Akro Sparlker with heavy blizzard 'aventurine' - probably caused by colorant spilled on the rollers:

Very Dali-esq. Needs a melting guitar or clock or something.

Thats heat. The cane was not kept in rotation in the glory hole.

As others have observed - that isn't a Popeye.

A fair number of DIs were dug. Patches are no different than any other style when it comes to that issue.

Harry and Wendy Besset.

Yes.

Looks right in those pics.

It is Ravenswood.

Variations in glass color are far more likely to be caused by changes in the amount of colorant, furnace temperature, weather (barometric pressure), degree of striking and a host of other factors. Keep in midn that amrble-making wasn't a precision business - despite collector's sometimes thiunking that it was. Batch and colorant were literally SHOVELED into the furnace. Keep in mind that Akro was shipping multiple train boxcar loads of marbles twice a week. Akro wasn't a short-run, small pot factory. The digs at Akro show us the variations that come from starts and ends of batches and all manner of problems. Small variations in colors are just that - variations.

And my favorite:

Some cullet:

Standing by.

An excellent thread. Big props to you for taking the time to make it.

Could it? Sure. Given how cane marbles are made - it up to the maker how far to draw out the cane - or not..... and how large to make the starting diameter. Of course larger pieces mean that you have far fewer pieces. Keep in mind that a shop would be turning out a LOT of canes - and its hard to say that they were unique. You could easily have a shop turn out20 of the same cane design in the same day. It actually makes sense that they would - because canes require that you pull stringers and components in advance. Its a waste of time to make stringers for just one or two canes. So favorite design must have been common. Large same-canes do pop up from time. Yars ago at the Maine show there were FIVE 2+ inch same canes for sale as a set.

There are 3" and larger onionskins. Not common - but not unknown either.

For folks that have done this show before - is it mostly dishes over marbles?