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Totally trust you on this Fire, I absolutely was not questioning, I was so far off. Sometimes it's kind of embarrassing that I've been collecting Akro for this amount of time and know so very little about other companies. It's time I start learning. Thanks for sharing!

Wow, twelve years. Congrats on getting one! I just spent the last hour in Steph's Study Hall looking at Vitros thinking I might find your marble, nope. I have so much to learn about other companies. It was a fun hour anyway

It's a cool color combination Fire . . . can I ask, what is it?

Hmmm, tough question, there is at least 12 from that first tray 🤪 If I have to choose one, this week it's this one. 5/8" UV base

Much appreciated !

Nice! Sure looks like it! Cheers!

My cracked and annealing fractured marble is 19/32", if you were asking about that one.

Sure Wolf, I thought I already had photos of this one but I didn't, turns out I had only taken photos of it backlit, so here you go, here's both 5/8"

If I can add my thoughts here too, I've seen very very few Yellow on transparent Green Akros, and the two or three that I've seen or heard of even, have annealing fractures. I have one, it's seen it's time in the ring, but it has at least one annealing fracture. One other thing, in your photos marbleman, photo 19 in the pink circled area it looks like the flow of glass goes in two different directions, one flow is north/south, the second flow is east/west. I don't know Jabo marbles, but I feel pretty confident in Akro, and I've never seen this cross flow. I would say not Akro. I'd be interested to see the video though -Jess

Took two cases out in the sun this morning, it just makes them sparkle. In the first photo are the Cobalt and wispy White from the photos yesterday, this case is where they live. In the first post, that is the only real display I have for my Akro, the rest stay in containers. In the smaller case, the red one, there are eight other marbles, Master, two handmades, a Peltier, a Marble King, even a foreign one there, all in the upper left. The rest are all Akro 🤩

Thank you Fire! You're right about the Vitamin C, it feels like a boost of marble energy for me, this makes me want to re-photograph all my marbles in the sun 😄 It HAS been fun filling that tray. I started out buying marble lots on ebay a little over 20 years ago and got lucky once in a while, but that just doesn't seem to happen anymore, so now it's more or less buying one specific marble at a time. I agree, marbles do force me to slow me down, inspecting each marble and finding something new about one that you've owned for years, that's the best. Thank you for your thoughts! -Jess

Yes! Fantastic selection of Akro Orange there 🤩

When I first started collecting, it was for any Akro I could get my hands on of course, and back then money was always tight. The Cobalt and wispy White were one of the first combinations I actively hunted, couldn't get enough of them, but I had to sacrifice in other areas in my life in order to afford these back then, and now they have a sentimental place in my collection . What I love now is Orange, love that Akro Orange, all 254 shades and transparency/opaqueness of it lol (please don't take that seriously, I have no idea how many different Oranges there are). I also love Spirals, translucent bases, Periwinkle Blue, marbles that 'appear to be same run' and finding them at different times and locations, and certain dug marbles. I know I'm all over the place but it's all Akro. Here are some of my Akro out in the Florida sun ☀️, usually when I take my marbles outside it's to get them out of the path of a hurricane 🌪️⛈️ So this was nice.

Good morning, it's Akro Friday 🤩 1. Brown and Orange on a translucent base 2. Yellow on a transparent Blue base with wispy white 21/32" 3. White and a thin surface transparent Yellow/Brown on a clear base 5/8" 4. Black and Yellow Prize Name 5/8" 5. Yellow striated cork on an Amber bubbly base 19/32"

Awesome, and thank you! My thought is why view only the new photos when we have a couple decades worth of photos on this site? This is just one of the things I love about Marble Connection.

Ha! I made this .jpg in Photoshop in 2015 and just came across it again, it made me think of you @akroorka I realize your name is a palindrome, but every time I see it, it makes me think of an Orca 😍

I've looked everywhere. I thought I had put these up for identification somewhere, but I can't find it, so I thought this would be a good place to share them. Look at all these beautiful AV marbles, four pages worth! Always fun to go back researching through the years. These are 5/8" and 21/32", the two on the right have a lot more clear glass. All five came together in the same lot off ebay if that makes any difference

That really is a crazy marble, if I found a marble like this in the wild, there is no way I'd associate it with Peltier. Good grief, now I have to go look through my marbles again 😆 It sure is a looker though! Is the UV part of the definition of a Pink Champagne? Snowball ! Thank you for the name Fire

I don't think I've ever seen a Pink Champagne Pelt, so I've definitely never tried to photograph one, but I think your photo looks great! Is it translucent? What about trying just a backlight. This is a pretty neat Pelt I think. A larger size at 23/32"

Oh gosh. I just realized you weren't commenting on the original posted marble. CANCEL! 🙃

Ooh, I'm intrigued. Why is this one giving you Asian vibes? I would say this one is an Akro based on the 3rd photo, the seam and the eyelashes and the 7th photo, the striations in the clear glass that's what makes me think Akro. I'd love to hear why Asian vibes - I'm always learning!

Thank you! I had fun taking them. My husband thought I was crazy blocking all the windows in the room and working in pitch black for those photos 🤪🤓 That Pelt looks amazing backlit too! But I see you were able to achieve the backlighting effect in the daylight, very very cool. Was that with an LED flashlight to the back right of the marble? Was it sitting close to the marble?

I went through a period of backlighting and taking photos of my marbles 🤩

These are great polished/not polished pictures! It's always good to know what you're buying or looking at, I will bookmark this page I bought these two as polished so I could have a reference on hand, one Limeade and one Green and Yellow Popeye. My favorite thing about these two is that the seller was up front about them being polished. What's interesting to me is that you can see where the wispy white is supposed to end and it just doesn't, the wispy ends look scraggly or sometimes end in a flat line which is not normal either like in this first photo of the Popeye. In the Limeade the end of the cork looks feathered and doesn't end along a seam. It's hard to describe and show in a photo, it's probably easier to see in hand. Thank you for posting those handmades!

WOW! That's awesome! It looks like a brick texture to the Ox (brick, not Brick ). The Ox is the cork. I've never seen this, this is what I love about Akro ! Thank you so much for sharing.