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Awesome, and thank you! My thought is why view only the new photos when we have a couple decades worth of photos on this site? This is just one of the things I love about Marble Connection.

Ha! I made this .jpg in Photoshop in 2015 and just came across it again, it made me think of you @akroorka I realize your name is a palindrome, but every time I see it, it makes me think of an Orca 😍

I've looked everywhere. I thought I had put these up for identification somewhere, but I can't find it, so I thought this would be a good place to share them. Look at all these beautiful AV marbles, four pages worth! Always fun to go back researching through the years. These are 5/8" and 21/32", the two on the right have a lot more clear glass. All five came together in the same lot off ebay if that makes any difference

That really is a crazy marble, if I found a marble like this in the wild, there is no way I'd associate it with Peltier. Good grief, now I have to go look through my marbles again 😆 It sure is a looker though! Is the UV part of the definition of a Pink Champagne? Snowball ! Thank you for the name Fire

I don't think I've ever seen a Pink Champagne Pelt, so I've definitely never tried to photograph one, but I think your photo looks great! Is it translucent? What about trying just a backlight. This is a pretty neat Pelt I think. A larger size at 23/32"

Oh gosh. I just realized you weren't commenting on the original posted marble. CANCEL! 🙃

Ooh, I'm intrigued. Why is this one giving you Asian vibes? I would say this one is an Akro based on the 3rd photo, the seam and the eyelashes and the 7th photo, the striations in the clear glass that's what makes me think Akro. I'd love to hear why Asian vibes - I'm always learning!

Thank you! I had fun taking them. My husband thought I was crazy blocking all the windows in the room and working in pitch black for those photos 🤪🤓 That Pelt looks amazing backlit too! But I see you were able to achieve the backlighting effect in the daylight, very very cool. Was that with an LED flashlight to the back right of the marble? Was it sitting close to the marble?

I went through a period of backlighting and taking photos of my marbles 🤩

These are great polished/not polished pictures! It's always good to know what you're buying or looking at, I will bookmark this page I bought these two as polished so I could have a reference on hand, one Limeade and one Green and Yellow Popeye. My favorite thing about these two is that the seller was up front about them being polished. What's interesting to me is that you can see where the wispy white is supposed to end and it just doesn't, the wispy ends look scraggly or sometimes end in a flat line which is not normal either like in this first photo of the Popeye. In the Limeade the end of the cork looks feathered and doesn't end along a seam. It's hard to describe and show in a photo, it's probably easier to see in hand. Thank you for posting those handmades!

WOW! That's awesome! It looks like a brick texture to the Ox (brick, not Brick ). The Ox is the cork. I've never seen this, this is what I love about Akro ! Thank you so much for sharing.

Thank you! Oooh, I will keep an eye out, the closest I have to something like that is a dark Blue cork with a thin stripe of Ox on a light Blue base. I'd love to see one of those that you described, do you have a photo?

Good morning everyone, Happy Akro Friday! 1. Baby Blue and Red Prize Name, a little more unusual color combo 5/8" 2. Orange and White Snake with that Blue line 3. Yellow and Orange Prize Name 9/16" 4. Orange broken cork on a translucent base 5. Cobalt and Eggyolk Swirl on a UV base, larger than 15/16", smaller than 1". I don't have many Cobalt on UV base Akros. The first four are older photos before I got a macro lens and before I started putting the size of the marble in the description 😕 I'll dig the marbles out this weekend and add the sizes.

Oh gosh, don't apologize or be embarrassed. Taking photos of very small, highly reflective glass orbs will never be easy, it's a continuous and never-ending learning experience

It is a corkscrew, I would say this is an Akro Prize Name.