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happy friday Akronites

did someone say Popeye 🤔

tricolor specials

I don't know what you mean. These types are pretty well known and not many were found. I apologize for posting so many that haven't been seen before.. but I don't collect many common types. Anyway, have a super friday. I'll post some nice tricolor specials and tight line spirals later that are not dug.

heres a picture for you Ric.

This guide you bookmarked provides incorrect information. Many of those 'names' were never used by Akro at all.

I don't believe Ric said they weren't Akro. I don't think he diagrees. These are pretty well known, dug in Clarksburg examples. My friend Roger dug the the one with the white outer ribbon. Maybe it was Claudia.. I'm not sure.. I'll ask her next week. Too many irons in the fire right now.. but I assure you, I would never post any marble calling it Akro if it were not.

Who's crying? Don't be sad.

... and some have white encasing the oxblood twists ... like this example. ~ double stream oxblood ribbon twist (encased in white)

This is for Ric... told him I would post a pic of this marble which is Akro... that was doubted a few weeks back when Clifford H. sold one for 500 or so FB. $500 was a steal. They exist. Here's another example.. nicer one. ~ double stream oxblood ribbon twist (btw.. I know it's not Friday, but I don't have anything other than Akro.. a few Master Made Marbles and a couple Master Glass Company examples that I keep to refer to the poor quality of later Master... so every day is an Akro day for me)

and since it's Friday. Here's my submission. Akro made some nice marbles that didn't spin.

Cups didn't break off. They were held down by 6 screws that fastened the cup through its groove to the gear it sat on. Here’s a couple pictures and the description from the inventor. In another sort of related thought.. I find it fascinating that some people think the cup(s) and the entire apparatus where basically made from junk spare parts hanging around or recycled. lol. that entire assembly... the cam driven arm, gears etcetera that held the cup, rotated and swung so fast, the human eye would not be able to process its movements from accepting a variegated molten gob, rotating, shears snipping, swinging and tilting to drop the spun, sheared gob on rollers in what appears to be less then or at most a second because the whole arm holding the cup needed to swing back into position under the feeder to accept the next gob dropping from the feeder... or you ended up with a pool of molten glass on the floor... which did happen and explains tons of cool cullet chunks.

That's not what I said. I did not say molten glass would stick to cups not gouged with random grooves. I said the random grooves did not make a spiral patern. The purpose was to create some sort of friction to retain the gob from just being ejected prematurely before the stream was cut and dumped while it twisted. This is all explained in barkers patent drawings and description. This is a huge part of what I am writing.. without the signature spiral, Akro would have been just like all the rest. They were smart in buying into technology and marketing tactics.

You're only partially correct here. The groves carved in the carbon were barely even touched by molten glass. If they were.. you'd have ended up with a gob of 'crap'. The cam driven arm that held the plate the carbon cup was held to by another plate with set screws moved so fast a gob didn't have time to settle in the cup. The entire process from a gob dropping to the cup, rotating, getting sheared and tilting to drop on a roller or guide to a roller took less than a second. The distance of the cup from the feeder is what had the most influence on the resulting gob turning into a tight or loose spiral. That's what effected the rate of spin. The adjustable cam. Those carbon cups didn't spin independantly. They were held in place on a platform that did, which was attached to the rotating, tilting arm. In your picture, you can see this groove in the cup closest to the red piece of cullet. All this is very evident in the patent writing of Barker.. who did not work for Akro. Akro had no patent on any of this. They paid for the technology. So, just to be clear... the grooves carved in those cups are not what created any specific pattern.. they aren't in any shape of a spiral.

Akro Friday... on Saturday. Better late than never 😉 ~ tricolor special

no. that's just a spiral onyx. is it oxblood? if so, an oxblood spiral onyx. or.. in collector names, oxblood snake.

yes. sure is Akro, but its not a 'pigtail'. it is a double oxblood ribbon twist (for lack of any exact type), blue translucant glass dividing the oxblood ribbons. Jeff Franke stole that one. They are rare, dug. I'll post a nicer one in Akro Friday.

following. Any further information on George?

what size are they? undersized you say 🤔

happy new year

Hi ... does anyone know how to get in touch with George Sourlis who authored 'Master Glass Company Marbles' ?? Thanks

both are Akro Royals

a little fluorescence for Friday.. * uranium spiral onyx (Fluora~kro) 😉

Friday.

happy Akro Friday 3/4 and 9/16