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  1. PittsburghMarbles
    Akro slag
  2. PittsburghMarbles
    Yeah I doubt their legitimacy highly. 15 years of antiquing since I was 18 has taught me that things that are too good to be true usually are and that most likely they are Asian/Central American fakes or reproductions and or just generalized scams even if the seller doesn’t know.
  3. PittsburghMarbles
    Are these legit? There’s a few of them for sale online and I find it hard to believe that so many are floating around for only 14 to 30 bucks and that they are original.
  4. PittsburghMarbles
    Rubifoam was one of the first “tooth pastes”. They came in tiny sample sizes and the size you have.
  5. PittsburghMarbles
    ^ He’s dug at many of the sites I believe, which I could only dream of doing. He is the WV swirl king.
  6. PittsburghMarbles
    Looks alley to me
  7. PittsburghMarbles
    Sorry to be posting so much on here but Ive gotten super lucky the past few weeks. Found all of this at some antique stores yesterday. Everywhere I went had good marbles, which never happens. Untitled by Pittsburgh Marbles, on Flickr Here's some that Ive taken out of the jars after looking through them at the stores, still have loads of marbles to go through, hopefully there's some gems I overlooked. Untitled by Pittsburgh Marbles, on Flickr Bunch still to go through. Untitled by Pittsburgh Marbles, on Flickr
  8. PittsburghMarbles
    That Maui Hutch is pretty darn rare. Nice one.
  9. PittsburghMarbles
    Some of my bottles.
  10. PittsburghMarbles
    Yeah Id say so and thats a fairly rare one imo.
  11. PittsburghMarbles
    ^ Wow really? Never would have guessed that was Heaton and I have about 100 of them. Didnt know they made marbles with metallic in them.
  12. PittsburghMarbles
    Had a nice score at an estate sale today. Bunch of akro patches, a metallic alley I believe, a double ingot (not sure who made it), maybe a Ravenswood (the blue and teal swirl), a nice pelt rainbo, a vitro helmet and a weird oxblood thats transparent (the red one). Untitled by Pittsburgh Marbles, on Flickr Untitled by Pittsburgh Marbles, on Flickr Untitled by Pittsburgh Marbles, on Flickr Untitled by Pittsburgh Marbles, on Flickr Untitled by Pittsburgh Marbles, on Flickr Untitled by Pittsburgh Marbles, on Flickr
  13. PittsburghMarbles
    Will there be an alternative?
  14. PittsburghMarbles
    Happy Akro Friday. These are some of the first known box of Akros from Clarksburg to my knowledge from Roger Hardys collection that I took a photo of a few weeks ago (not in his book). They are extremely extremely extremely HTF. Probably have a better chance of getting hit by lightning than finding one of these in the wild. Untitled by Pittsburgh Marbles, on Flickr
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    ^ Are you Ron? If you don’t want to answer that’s ok. But either way, can you post your Davis marble digs on here and most of the examples? I’m sure I have a couple but I don’t know what to look for when it comes to them. I have literally 1000 unidentified WV swirls from jar finds and I’m sure some of them have to be Davis.
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    I think its crazy that these are going for ten bucks or more each on eBay auctions now. Theres one on eBay right now thats at 8 bucks with 8 bids and one day left. I literally got 50 of them for 15 bucks a few months ago at a garage sale in WV. They're fairly common but people obviously love them if they are going for that much now. Guess I should put some up for auction...
  17. PittsburghMarbles
    ^ Holy smokes, those are mega mint.
  18. PittsburghMarbles
    ^ Hopefully some of the pontils are still left.
  19. PittsburghMarbles
    Yes, the bags that had those alleys in them are new, probably last 6 years or so. But they are all late alleys, no idea who bagged them or why. And that photo of that marble you wanted closer pics of is a really nice alley. I'll have to go and take photos of it when I get home but I'm headed to Gettysburg right now for the weekend to dig on private property I got permission to dig and metal detect on, hope to find some sweet civil war era relics. But theres another view of that marble in my last photo I posted, the top marble in my hand.
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    I tend to find these Indians are always pretty beat up for some reason. They’re very hard to find in mint shape. I don’t know if it’s because the glass was lower quality or what, but they’re always beat to crap 95% of the time. The only mint one I have is ironically one I dug up at a construction site.
  21. PittsburghMarbles
    How do you know those are Davis? Theres scant info about them, is it because of the box that you knew? They look very similar to some Alox and even Alleys.
  22. PittsburghMarbles
    ^ Thank you, wish I could afford loads of Germans, maybe one day I’ll win the lottery; guess I better start playing it first…
  23. PittsburghMarbles
    Def not Veiligglas, other than that I couldn't tell ya.
  24. PittsburghMarbles
    M.F. Christensen, they made early machine made marbles in Akron, OH between 1904-1917. They're basically the grandfather of all later machine made marble companies and helped spawn Akro Agate.
  25. PittsburghMarbles
    The blue one if it has one pontil would be a good indicator for a Leighton marble but I've never seen one quite like it and its in really really mint shape; which makes me think its a contemporary handmade marble.
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