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Here is a box that i recently got which has some with purple.

Vitro Neon Vitro made purple Victories plus to many with purple to post them all.

Vitro Blue Devil

Vitro Lilacs

Brick These also belonged to Clyde but followed me home.

One that followed me home from the Decatur show last week. This belonged to Clyde.

Mine,Nola and Bill's bricks. All painted with Alley marbles.

My brick from the Pennsboro WV Alley marble site. A nice gift from a good friend.

I do not know who all made patches found at the Alley Sistersville site. But as of today and for some time now,i am not convinced that Alley made any patch marbles. I know what the books may say or show but i know very well that mistakes happen and things may change soon or later after publishing. Just one of many reasons to never do a book. It can take years to try and correct past incorrect things in print and in old thougths. These Alley patches will pop up for years and years ahead. On chat boards,at shows,on ebay,on facebook,where ever marbles or marble collectors are. It has been going on for several years and will continue. Maybe Alley made patches but as of today i do not want to be the one spreading that information. It is your decision about Alley patches and as of yet today i have not changed mine. But i can with something new. Enough my finger is sore,my camera battery is low,my mouth is sore from the hook and the popcorn is all gone.

Akro or Sistersville ?

If you have five gallon of dug Akro. I think you may also find the base glass is different and not all exactly the same from day to day or week to week. Close but no exact. The patch hole at Akro was probably one of the largest and produced probably the most numbers of marbles. A flat bed trailer from a semi truck sat in the center where the Akro patch hole was dug early on. Enough digging happened that the complete flat bed trailer fell into the hole out of site. I don't know of much anyplace in front of or around the more current dance studio building that did not produce Akro patch marbles. I think Akro for many many years had a over abundance or over production of patch marbles. Another reason some could have eneded up at Sistersville. I believe over 20 years there were a lot more patches dug at Akro than corkscrews and popeyes. Matter of fact the number of popeyes were few. Why because the sales were better they were more popular than patches. Same reason there is a way fewer corks than patches found at Sistersville. These are the largest numbers of patch colors style etc found at both locations. You tell me which is which ?

More dug Sistersville

More dug Sistersville.

Dug Akro Dug at Sistersville

More Akro that i dug myself.

As far as i know it was continued as the Lawerence Alley Glass company after Alley left. That is what the Tyler county courthouse and newspaper records indicate. I have been collecting dug Sistersville marbles since at least 2004 up until two weeks ago. Here are just a few Akro that was dug by my hands. They look like a large percetage of patches found at Sistersville to me.