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Morning everyone, I've been thinking about this for awhile and love the idea of it, I'm not on line enough, but still want to contribute to my favorite marble site. Here are three metallic marbles, two have the single band metallic stripes, and the third is more of a swirl. I'll leave it to the professionals to ID if you feel so inclined These also merge into the Pee Wee realm as well, - that largest one, the white, brown, black, metallic swirl is 17/32" - the whiter based metallic stripe is 1/2" ( I think it has a cold roll on it, looks as made to me ) - the blue based metallic stripe is smaller than 7/16", but larger than 13/32" ( I only have the plastic architectural template ) Highest bid by 9pm EASTERN TIME Friday, June 16th is the winner. Same as the other auctions, winner pays to the board, I'll pay shipping costs. Enjoy! **EDIT** I just noticed too, that on the whiter metallic stripe, the base is kind of opalescent, holding it up against an overcast sky gives it a bit of fire.

Same here Steph, and shipping from France, listed in the Vacor group? So many countries involved, these seem to be well traveled lol Beautiful colors, quite a few look quite out of round....

A brown metallic swirl 17/32"

Put me on your list -Jess

Oh yeah! Sure would! That is a fantastic Cork display Al, very nice. While writing this, I keep going back to look at the Corks, and a new one catches my eye every time

Wow, that's fantastic! What a cool idea

Yucky yucky Pelts

Wow, this thread is enough to convert an Akro collector! Pelts sure are beautiful. Pretty sure this is an unnamed one very bubbly amber base 9/16"

No doubt! and that Copperhead looks hot, like it just came off the rollers!

I certainly don't know Steph, although now I feel like should know, being an Akro nut. Lol, I may have jumped the gun earlier on this one.I just didn't recognize the structure, that's why I was so happy thinking it was an Alley. I have very few known (to me) swirl type marbles.

Morning everyone, I'm not very good with swirl marbles, can an one help with a maker on this one?

I probably did that backwards, sorry about that, got a little excited. Let me run this over to the ID page first.

Is this an Alley?

I hope this isn't too forward, but whoever won that Marble King eBay auction on Friday, I really hope that was a MK swirl If it was, could you post photos? I missed it by seconds lol I'll live vicariously through you

I know I've shared these all at one point or another, but here is a group shot of some oddball Akros in my opinion Starting at one o'clock position, going clockwise: 1. a purple cork on a wispy translucent base 2. an orange cork on a translucent green base 3. an orange cork on a translucent blue base 4. a deep blue and black cork on an opaque white base 5. an orange and transparent brown cork on a bubbly white translucent base 6. a pink cork on a black base 7. a light cornflower blue moss agate 8. Center: a white, black, and brown cork. I can't tell what the base is on that one

Whoa! I've never seen those Visi-Paks! Way cool Steph, thanks for sharing!!

I only use my cell phone, would love to purchase a camera with a good macro. The trick to taking pictures with your cell phone camera is using a dark background, the phone camera is "too smart" in it's White Balance feature. It tries to over compensate if you use a white background, and ends up making the marbles look really dark in my opinion. You also have to figure out a good lighting situation for your phone. I prefer using the flash with a bright background light (specifically a Maglite flashlight for me ) I took these with cell phone camera.

Happy Easter !

Pretty Sparklers ^^^ I guess it's easier for me to find pastel colors with Vitro lol

I LOVE this display! So much variety, fun to investigate!!

Wow!! That is fantastic ^^^^^^ backdrop color and texture, everything! winner of the pastel groupings! Jelly beans.

I have one that is quite similar, it jumps back and forth between my Akros and Master The whispy white really looks Master to me.

Pastels

I think I have to go with Akro as well, based on that last photo, very strong Akro looking cut to me.