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Holy cow! That is some amazing camera work, very nice!!

I got a macro lens today, I can't believe it's taken me this long to do this. Anybody else want to share some cool close-ups? I'd love to see them!

Beautiful!!! I am completely in love with that fifth marble and the last marble especially. And that Black, Blue, and Green cork on Orange is amazing. Okay, I love 'em all!

It looks to me like it has just the one seam, shown in the middle two photos. What do you guys think? MFC? I think I found similar looking 9's on Alan's site, but I am very new in trying to ID slags. 13/16"

Ah, got it, thank you so much. This one is not a peewee, it's just smaller than all the others I have. Thank you for the breakdown in size, much appreciated! 17/32"

Very cool, I had no idea that a clear/white Pelt Slag was this difficult to find; fun to step away from my Akros and learn a little about other marbles So I dragged my slags out this evening (its not that many) and have been looking around on line trying to find out if there are rarer sizes. Really the only thing I was able to find is that any CACs over 25/32" are considered rare. I believe I have a Christensen red slag, small in diameter, but I can't really find much on unusual sizes. It appears to have one seam, but I am far from a slag identifier. Hoping you might be able to answer that question, are there standard sizes for CAC slags? Are smaller diameters more difficult to find? -Jess

I see some definitely old (1920s at least), and some definitely new (1990s or more recent). You have quite a wide variety of decades there.

Wonderful! I love that Special, I don't see that thick Black ribbon with that color combination very often. Or ever now that I'm thinking about it, that's a 'special' Special in my book

Fantastic! Steph's Study Hall was the first place I thought of when I got my box So thank you so much ❤️

I was so sorry to read this. It looks like he was a wonderful young man and I sure like his taste in cars ❤️

Clear based Rainbo? It has two seams. I bought it for the bubbles 23/32"

Thank you, me too! And good practice on back lighting all

All beauties! I especially like these two, they look unusual. Thank you for sharing Happy Akro Friday!

Gave it away! Be still my heart. I love backlighting Akros, especially when they have striated or very bubbly bases. A hybrid popeye: Green and Orange, with a very thin Red surface cork, almost making it look like the base is red at certain angles. An Orange spiral, on a Yellow tinged base. Both 5/8" Happy Akro Friday! -Jess

Ahhh, that makes sense, thanks Alan! That is a SOLID ghost core on that Indian Maglite, wow. Thanks for sharing your photo!

I keep coming back to look at all these beautiful Flames, but one that really sticks out to me is that Red on Red, Chad. That one is amazing, I've never seen anything like it! -Jess

1. Yellow cork on a transparent Teal base, almost always fractured. I think Dani Kirk has one that isn't fractured. 2. Blue/Gray cork on a brilliant Orange 3. Brown, Red, Green, and White on a bubbly Amber base 4. Light Blue Spiral, could pass for a Snake -Jess

Some backlit photos, I love the way some Akros look backlit! That last Green Onyx is my favorite. Thanks for looking! -Jess

Blue and Green Prizenames -Jess

1. UV reactive Brown cork 2. Periwinkle corks on translucent base 3. Brown, Black, and White cork 4. not sure what to call this one, but it looks like someone tried to blend all the colors and this is the result. Many annealing fractures, but still a favorite.

1. Blue and Green on a transparent Red base 2. Green Spiral 3. a transparent Orange Snake on clear base 4. Orange and Black cork on Moss base 5. Orange cork on an unusual translucent Red base 6. Red and Brown lazy cork shooters 15/16" 7. Yellow and darker Green on a light Green base. Extremely difficult to find. 8. Yellow and White cork on a transparent Blue base (although at certain angles it looks like the base could be clear) Thanks for looking! -Jess

Translucent based corks

I thought these could have their own post. Cobalt and White on a translucent base, they average about 1" in size. The bottom left one corks in the opposite direction from the rest, I thought that was pretty cool. Edit: There are two separate photos, one above and one below, but both are of the same six shooters and in the same order, showing both 'poles'.

I have some more I'd like to add, if you're still collecting photos Steph: 1. Transparent and opaque Green cork on a dark transparent Red base 2. Yellow on a wispy, bubbly Blue base 3. a Blueblood 4. a Green and true Black cork (a VERY thin layer of Ox over the Black, really only visible with a loupe, which I finally have) 5. UV reactive Popeye 6. a Blue and Gray cork on a translucent base (with flash, and without flash) 7. Orange, Cream, and dark Blue on a translucent base, it took me a long time to find one of these. 8. Oxblood on a butterscotch/cream color base

Omgosh Steph. So after collecting Akro marbles for years, I just purchased my first Akro box a couple weeks ago, and was going to start looking here to find out what kind of marbles were actually in the box as sold. From the pictures here, it looks like these marbles match your photos, especially Alan's! Here are the marbles from my No, 32 carton: