Alan

There are a fair number of modern torch work artists that made Guineas. That particular one is fairly unremarkable in terms of tracing it. It doesn't look like either SP or CR.

Looks very contemporary from those pics.

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I don't know what you mean by "a single pontil solitaire set". You seem to be using that term to imply that the piece in the OP wasn't cane-cut.

Its an End of Cane. From a manufacturing perspective - end of canes should be discarded because it didn't meet the desired design quality standard. That is how we got all of those cane fragments out of Lauscha a decade-plus ago.

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I like them. All of the above are the >1" dia. patches. (Note the quarter for scale). I bought 90% of them from Roger Hardy back when they were available at New Philly. All of the experimental patches that come up for sale for reasonable amounts - I buy. The big experimental corks rarely come up for sale. A certain seller tried to sell one for $600. for years - with no apparent takers. There are ~24 of the corks known and the quantity of the >1" patches in the quantity noted in my first post. The comparative rarity of both types is very, very, very low compared to everything else that Akro made. There a very few of other large types that Akro made that are also fairly rare.

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Thats a lot of as-mades"!

Then there is when the marbles become the tops:

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Your problem isn't your hardware. Understand the working limits of your camera, your optics and use them within those limits. Understand the challenges of using your camera on the "Auto" setting - and the compromises that it may be making in the background that you are unaware of. Use lighting effectively. Don't use your macro (not "micro") lens so close to the subject that you fall outside the focal length limits - or have issue with focus at x aperture. For most of us - understanding how our camera and optics work is more important than new hardware.

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Nice Akro boxes. Its a shame the funnel is broken - as almost all of them are.

Looks like an odd anemic onionskin.

I don't own one. Micas can have some variable color due to variation in the glass and the diameter.

You need to get it off the ceiling at some point....

Chilled glass, including rollers that aren't up to temp.