Alan

It is a new/contemporary piece.

There are one MILLION people in my metro area without power. Temps hit 100+ yesterday. Power may take a full week to be restored.

Yes - I have seen handmades with what collectors currently refer to as "aventurine" in (usually) the green. Of course this is caused by adding too much metal colorant to the color batch - causing it to be over-saturated and the metal flakes precipitate out - just as in machine mades.

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Well then - the "Akro employee's family" must be torching marbles.

1. Torched 2. Torched again 2. Torched some more

That piece isn't the only torched marble being sold by that seller.

It looks absolutely torched to me. Especially in the 4th pic.

These were single "ingot" marbles. All of the ones I know of were dug by Roger Hardy - who sold a number of these over the years at the New Philly show. They are conservatively believed to be true experimentals from Akro... and have the classic signs of such. The orange peel surface texture is likely chill marks from cool rollers and the huge size is what Akro did with some designs that we refer to as "experimentals".

They look contemporary from here.

Probably an architectural accent or from a piece of furniture.

Opinion: Its torched Moretti glass. Contemporary.

Keep in mind that cane-cut contemporaries (as this one is) are made by the same process as vintage pieces. So the ridges are caused by the same processes. Those can be a twist imparted to the cane before or during the cut - or by the rounding process. Here is Geoff Beetem making a cane cut piece - which may illustrate the basic process and help you visualize how the ridge can be created. Remember: most cane-cut designs are intentionally twisted to cause the ribbons, latticino to spiral (Geoff makes PERFECT pieces )

Its a contemporary.

Here is some more Akro blue:

As a friend says: "Statistically - you have a far better chance of robbing 5 banks the same day and getting away with it."

Cheryl: Thank you for your kind updates - and especially for the kindness that you are able to give Alan is his great time of need. May the blessings that he receives from you and others come back to each of you tenfold. Alan Z

Eddie Seese

I agree.

As I understand it - this has happened before.

Ever notice how garbage marbles are identified as "Onionskin Lutzes" - but never the other way around? I wonder why that is?

Anemic MK.

They were $50 NIB when they first came out.

Re: eggs.....Did you shoot this through a window?