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So I might have gone a little crazy at the Old South Marble Show in Valdosta last week 🤪, but how can you not when you're surrounded by marbles? I have a couple Fridays worth of new-to-me Akros to share here LOL. If you can get to a show, go. Not just for marble purchases, but for the knowledge, for the comradery, and for the amazing people who have our same appreciation for these tiny glass orbs. It really is cathartic. 1. Baby Blue Prize Name with a horsehair 11/16" 2. Pistachio Green on a transparent Orange base 19/32" 3. a piece of Akro cullet in the shape of a heart ❤️ 4. Orange, Red, and Pink 5/8" 5. an Orange Ringer 5/8"

1. White and Yellow on a transparent dark Blue base 5/8" 2. Blue and White on a UV base 5/8" 3. Orange on transparent dark Blue base with wispy White and dark Gray? 21/32" 4. Transparent Orange Snake 5/8" 5. Blue, Blue, and Blue 9/16"

I would really love to find one of these, I sometimes go back to page 11 of the Mostly Pix Akro post in Steph's Study Hall to admire it 🤩

Very hard to choose, but if I had to . . . A Periwinkle cork on a translucent green base. Akro 🤩

Amazing time in Valdosta! Thank you for the photos Cheese, I should have taken photos, I am usually the shutterbug at any kind of event, but I suppose I was a little distracted by the marbles haha! I had a wonderful time, and it was fun to put faces to names and meet so many new friends, and we're all focused on marbles, can't get any better than that.

I love these stories too! About 2002 or so, I was antiquing and garage saling, then researching and selling on eBay, trying to make a bit of extra money on the weekends. I had a little success here and there, but then found a small cardboard box full of marbles and that was it for me, trying to research those marbles got me hooked. I discovered a big seller on ebay lived near me, so I reached out and Alan Basinet was so amazing, he invited me to his home to share his collection with me. He had cataloged boxes on top of cataloged boxes, and so many gorgeous displays, it blew my mind, I wish I had taken pictures. He was an incredibly kind person and enjoyed sharing his knowledge. I still have two flower frogs that I found for him for his collection that I wasn't able to give him before he passed. Akro is what I love and what I collect.

Looking good on that back lighting! 👍

@cheese the link for the Valdosta info poster isn't working, can you please repost it?

I'm getting a Vitro feel to this marble

Sweet! Thank you for that insight into Peltier mibs

Yessir! And you are on Mountain My sense of humor comes across weird online sometimes. Most times probably. Lovely Double Ingot Akro for sure.

That's cool thanks Fire, I bought it for that base glass, I really like it. Simmering down now 😆

That is a very busy Akro and only three and a half hours early 😆 Double Ingot Sparkler, is there more going on, is it fractured, so much to look at. Some of that Green looks a little transparent, and is there possibly AV in that Green too? Very cool Double Ingot.

Whoops! 🤪 Sorry about that, I get a little excited for Akro Friday sometimes. I amended my post 😁

Fire! Thanks for posting your Kokomos! These are great! So I promise, I did slow down lol. I've had this marble for quite a few years, it's one of the few Pelts that I own, but I really like this one. What do you think . . . . does it fit in here?

I'll be out of town for the next two Fridays, so here are some fun ones for tomorrow, Akro Friday: 1. Salmon on Black, Prize Name 2. Coral on translucent Blue 3. Red and White on an olive Green base, Special 4. Oxblood on a dark transparent Brownish-Greenish base 5. Red, Green, Blue on Orange, Special 6. Orange Spiral 3/4" ! Heading to Alaska to see family and for some cooler weather 🤩

That's gorgeous! The colors make me think of a Pelt Copperhead, very cool.

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Very nice Akro Prize Name ! In a not-very-common color combination.

I would call this one an Onyx, a white corkscrew in a colored transparent base.

My favorite part is the "Eye", "Blue" Singular. 😄

Cato, looking better! I like to use a black cotton t-shirt as the background, there's no light reflection. For me, it's been a years-long learning curve for getting photos that I like of marbles, it's almost an never-ending lesson in photography

Heck yeah!!

Hi Cato, if you're using a cell phone camera for these photos, it helps to use a more neutral/darker background color, gray or black, non-reflective surface. Also, when you're taking the photo of your marble, touch the marble on the screen, that tells your cell phone what to focus on, and then hold your phone as still as possible until you hit the 'take photo' button, hope that helps! That looks like a nice Akro White Spiral. If the White is only on the surface and doesn't go down into the base glass, you could call it a Snake Nice Akro.

I've got one! 🥳 A Pelt Nova 15/16"