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This is a really cool looking marble, I like when you can see the flow of the glass or the defining lines between the colors, I'm not sure if I am explaining that clearly enough. Is this a Peltier?

So there's at least two out there, this gives me hope! 🤩 . . . . . . Soooo you're saying there's a chance 😀

21/32"

Happy Akro Friday! 13/16"

I get that! I would have done the same ❤️

The Orange of these older marbles is just dazzling! My favorite Akro color is Orange which is kind of funny because I'm not much of an Orange fan anywhere else. But the Oranges in the two on this page (the other one being at the top of this page 2) are just electric. ⚡⚡⚡

Wow! Thanks for this explanation Fire! And for the Superman examples too 👀

Corkscrews with Oxblood

1. Blue Spiral 17/32" 2. Green Ringer 21/32" 3. Blue Spiral with the thinnest Green 5/8" Marble Show treasures

Marble Show treasures: 1. Cobalt and Yellow on a wispy White 11/16" 2. Two stream Blue Onyx 5/8" 3. Odd Oxblood and Yellowish corkscrew 19/32" 4. Orange Spiral on a transparent Red base 5/8" 5. Orange Spiral 5/8" That Yellow in #3 makes me think of Harvest Gold appliances from the 70s haha It's almost Akro Friday 🤩

I second that, great capture on that AV !

Happy almost Akro Friday! 1. Periwinkle on a translucent base 21/32" 2. Orange Auger 19/32" 3. Yellow Onyx 9/16" 4. Green on Yellow Prize Name 19/32" 5. Orange, Red, and Blue Special 21/32" These are more of my treasures from the Old South Marble Show 🤩

I've only once sold my Akro, I think it was three or four Snakes. It was way early on in my collecting years, and I still regret it. I even traded a Baby Blue Snake after that . . . . severely regret that. I did not know. Since then, I've not sold any Akro. I'm sorry I don't have photos to show.

Thank you! Such a great time and great atmosphere, you're right about that in your earlier post 😊 that was the best part. I'm looking forward to the next marble show I can get to.

Here are a little over half of my new marbles from the show 🤩 I haven't taken good photos of the other half, but once I do I'll share a group photo of them also. Thank you to Chuck Sumner and Marshal Wilson for a great marble show!

1. a Powder Blue, Brown, Orange, and Yellow corkscrew 21/32" 2. an Oxblood Spiral, hard to photograph 5/8" Happy Akro Friday y'all

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. 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! 👍