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Hi Wolf, your photos are certainly not inadequate, they have definitely improved since you first joined the page, and I appreciate you asking. I think the first thing I would mention is the area around the marble. When you are photographing a marble, you want the marble to be the focus, so any crazy background color or texture will take away from the focus of the photo. In this screenshot below I would remove (crop out) the area outside the red rectangle, especially if it's a screenshot and there is black area above and below your screenshot. All that extra space around the marble makes for a lot of scrolling for just a few photos here. I hope that helps.

I got mine too, earlier this year! Amazing photo reference, highly recommend this book.

Happy Akro Friday ! 1. Red and Yellow on a translucent base 5/8" 2. Limeade 19/32" 3. Yellow on a transparent Orange base 19/32" 4. Orange Spiral 19/32" 5. Green and Yellow on a UV base 21/32"

Changed, thank you akroorka !

No one got my joke? Dang it, I'm a 🤓. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979): this is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything: 42.

42. 😂

What? No such thing. 😅

@The Nickel Guy I've always loved your lego stand idea very cool, and sorting through marbles sounds like an awesome way to spend a Sunday. I'm pretty sure I've shared all these before, some probably multiple times 🙃 but here they are all together for my Sunday Best.

Let's go y'all ! This kind of connection seems like it's the whole purpose of 'The Marble Connection' Let's do it!

I'd be interested if it's open to any members

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. Royal Blue 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.