The Nickel Guy

Thank you both for your further attention about this little feller. It would be cool to have an Akro Sweet Pea or Swea Pea. I am glad it is in good shape. Maybe we shall see. I have seen Ron Shepherd in yooooo tube videos with Stephen Bahr. I recently learned Ron had passed away. That Stephen Bahr sure is funny sometimes. I like his pinch of humor. They sure know and knew their stuff.

These turned out pretty good. Thank you very much!

I will follow up with more better pictures in the near future. It's kinda tough to photograph. Thank you very much.

One is larger than the other two. They all show that orange glow when held to the light and have that opalescent appearance. Some people like these moonies a lot. Me, they never really rocked my boat, but 3 is better than none. Mercury has Zero moons, Earth has One, Mars has Two but Me, I got Three!

This actually had me fooled until yesterday when I handled it along with many others. I noticed it felt light. Then I dropped it just a short 1 inch distance on the table and it bounced rapidly about 4 times with a funny sound. I thought it was a real marble but it was not. Just an odd thing for me, maybe others have seen such marbles many times before. I doubt it is collectible. ( Almost looks like a "9" doesn't it? )

This 5/8 or so marble loaded with bubbles must be showing a major characteristic of a certain maker. None of those bubbles, surprisingly, are exposed to the surface. One pic with flash and the other without. Do tell. Thank you!

The first image I provided in post no 1 were mostly white base swirl marbles. I also have some transparent and translucent colored base swirls I'll add on here. Some of these look like monstrous mutations of cats eyes! I think the only thing I can conclude is that swirl marbles are one tough type to identify. It is going to take a lot more studying than I thought to be able to pigeonhole these. I also should prepare myself to accept some just won't ever be identified with 100% certainty. I get mixed up sometimes telling the difference between a "Slag" and a "Swirl". I do have a bunch of "Jabo" swirls but they are a story for another day. I only have one big clear base swirl. I have several solid swirls, that Yellow Blue and Red on White looks to be something modern, the little marble is to show some scale. Sometimes a swirl is hiding in the crowd looking like a solid game marble. This one appeared to be a very dark green until I took a flash camera shot.

Yes, these were common marbles, but as a kid, I found them just as fascinating to look at as any others. All my marbles as a kid are gone, my little brother somehow got my bag and they are lost forever but I have picked these up over the past 30-40 years. When values or rarity was not important I valued my cats eye marbles. If they had an unusual color or several colors, I favored them more. I don't know much more about them today. I guess there are some Good Ones people want but what they are I dunno. Here are all I can find that I own in this post. I have 4 Big "Dobblers" (That's what I remember us kids in my neighborhood calling the big marbles) A pair of 4 vein examples, one deep blue and the other more sky blue. Then I have a three color almost "Banana" shaped one and my best one, I guess, is this 5 vein yellow one with green highlights, My group picture of the rest A couple unusual ones and a group of pee wees are shown better below. First a mis-shaped one. It is shaped like a Rugby football. Then the thinnest red banana (maybe) I have ever seen and finally 5 or so pee wees in the center. THAT"S ALL FOLKS for the cats

I appreciate both of your opinions, it's a tough one huh? My first thought was Akro and the colors are not too far off for that either. It's not quite a sunburst and not exactly a patch. Or . . . is it?

I show size comparison to the larger Akro Moss Agate ( I think ) This one is orange with a bit of a patch of transparent red. I see other similar from Peltier and Marble King and I saw another Vacor that resembled it but I am stumped. Besides that it is a Pee Wee. well under a half inch. I tried to show all sides in this collage block of 9 pictures below. THANK YOU!

I'm callin it Heaton Sweet Potato. Thank you all!

Now these get a bit complicated. My eyes are wiggin out by now. I think there are some "Popeye Corkscrews" in this group but not sure. So in these pictures are 8 summer marbles. Summer here in one image and summer there in the other picture but there are a total of 8 more at the end of my parade. I think there are three of the same in this photo and here there are the other 5 and the last 5 marbles shown here show 5 out of the 8 mixed in together? I'm out of these corkscrews but please continue posting yours if you like. Thanks for letting me share mine.

Almost done with my contributions but I saved my best for last. I think that these are Popeyes Two Akro Agate Purple and Yellow POPEYE Corkscrew Marbles and One Akro Agate Blue and Yellow POPEYE Corkscrew Marble. Definitely in the top 25 of my very favorite marbles.

Yes, this is another stand out in the crowd, a little played with I suppose but still nice enough for me. I always wanted it to be Oxblood but I don't think it is. My only one like this.

These three are single examples I have. They are only 1/2 inch or smaller. I guess 2 of them at least qualify as "pee wees"

Here is one marble, my only one like this, that has a transparent red snake corkscrew over a green opaque base. (Two views) On some of these images you will see the reflection of my TV or the window over it on the surface. Sorry, it looks almost like damage.

These Red and Yellow Corkscrews are clearly different. Four of one type with a transparent red snake over an opaque yellow base (notice the red bleeding into the yellow on the one) and two with a more opaque or perhaps somewhat translucent red snake. I see many other marble companies used this color combination or close to it anyway. I wondered where the nickname Ketchup and Mustard came from and does that nickname apply here to either of these. Heck, I hope these are AKRO? Marbles are sooooooooooo confusing!

I guess it is still an Vitro "All Red" ?

Great assortment of marbles Chad! Thank you!

These are pretty in my eye and well made. Opaque Black corkscrew on Opaque Peachy Caramel Brown Base. Delicious! I really don't know what color that would be.

A very mellow Green and Blue Opaque Corkscrew on a White Base. I don't think those straight lines are cracks but I will take a look and come back to note if they are. EDIT This was driving me nuts so I had to get it put and look. Sure enough, it has cracks. :-(

Three Orange (with just a trace of brown) Solid color Corkscrews on an Opaque White Base. That one on the left might show some light through the white? I forgot to check but the color makes me think it might be translucent.

Earlier (previous post) I posted a White and Yellow Corkscrew on a clear base. Here it appears with another with similar color combination that is less defined and also a White Corkscrew on a clear base.

White and Yellow Corkscrew on a clear base. Small bubbles. A light blue corkscrew in a bubbly transparent clear base. Not to be confused with an Akro Agate "Blue Auger" since the interior is open.

A few green corkscrews on a clear base.