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New in the mailbox yesterday: A yellow Spiral in a dark Amber bubbly base and a brilliant orange on an almost translucent blue base.

I was looking at base glass comparisons in Akro. The Red Spirals have two distinct base glasses. The two on the left have a brushed on, blurry edged red snake along the surface and a bluish tint in the base. The two on the right have a very defined edge on the red spiral with a clearer, almost a very light opalescent base glass. The blue Spirals (Onyx and Augers) have five different base glass colors (that I own) I'm sure there must be more, but I found the variations pretty cool, darkest at the top to a very pale blue base at the bottom. The middle row is almost a periwinkle color. Fun, for me , to see the variances within Maker.

I bought this Vitro shooter from a blurry photo thinking it was an Akro cork with an unusual color combination. I love the eyelashes on that blue Winnie.

Wow- I can't stop looking at that one, it should have made production.

... If you have to move marbles out of the way on your desk to access your keyboard or mouse I sometimes carry a new marble with me to work also in one of those small velvet bags! Haha, glad to hear about others doing it as well.

Wow! Those are spectacular

Thanks Steph, I'm still not sure how I feel about repair on a marble, so maybe sometime in the future. But for now I really like the idea that my marbles are almost 100 years old, in whatever condition I receive them. Since your post, I've been thinking about my collection. I definitely have a tendency to Moss Agates and Spirals. I also try for the unusual ones (lose ALOT) but always fun. Most of my collection has been individual purchases. Once in awhile I'll do a "shot in the dark" lot purchase, like this last one. I could identify an orange tightline spiral in the bunch, but had no idea of condition or what else was there, it wasn't really a great photo, but always fun to anticipate what else might be in there, like this Sparkler, it was definitely a bonus

Certainly not in any kind of display shape.... but my first Sparkler!!

That is a gorgeous marble, I love the bubbles

Thank you John! I'd love to see that Akro with AV, can't wait for pictures ! jeeperman, I love the different variations of orange on the chocolate ox, very nice And Winnie, that Ace has a very nice blue

Popeye it is The photo is labeled as a Popeye should be easy to remember. And the second marble, I never even considered it being an Imperial, but now that you mention it......

I haven't had McDonalds in forever, but I used to get the two cheeseburger meal, HAD to have Sweet and Sour sauce for the fries. everytime. Anyone else remember the Big Mac jinge? : Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onion on a sesame seed bun. That used to get stuck in my head for days

Blue Green Snake

Green Snake. More striated glass, love it.

Very light blue bubbly Onyx

I go back and forth on that last mib. Some days it's a Popeye.....

Two color snake, only because I don't think there is enough whispy white to qualify it as a Popeye.

An opalescent base with a yellow and blue Akro blob lol

Four color corkscrew - Special.

Hard to focus on this one, couldn't figure it out. A cornflower blue and black corkscrew on a light blue translucent base.

Favorite orange snake. Striated glass.

I haven't seen too many Akros with this olive green coloring.

Another orange. Orange might be my favorite

This is one of my favorites, an orange cork on a smoky mossy bubbly base. I think there is a separate reddish ribbon laying over the top of a sunken light orange snake. It's most apparent in the third photo where the top red deviates from the orange.

A very light blue corkscrew on a very light amber base.