mon Posted January 4, 2015 Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 Old MF Christensen box with old Akro label....... http://www.ebay.com/itm/291336578275?_trksid=p2060778.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Dog Posted January 5, 2015 Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 Had to have been after the box itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moremarbles4me Posted January 5, 2015 Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 I'll bite, how do you know it's a old MF Christensen box? Charles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mon Posted January 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 I think in the first photo you can see above the label and end that it spells out part of Christensen. I used the magnifier.....see what you think... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moremarbles4me Posted January 5, 2015 Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 You're right. there does seem to another label underneath. Charles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted January 5, 2015 Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 I think the printing underneath says "AKRO AGATES" No guess on value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mon Posted January 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 Steph, you could be correct.....all this mfc talk has me assuming. What's at the end...looks like it could be a "C" but not an "O" for Company ......I thought of the "K" in the tear as an upward crossbar "H"..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted January 5, 2015 Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 Ooooh! 'Outside the box' thinking! This is getting interesting! The 'Christensen' concept looked good. But the 'Akro Agates' one does too. Here's the difference, at least as I'm seeing it. And I'm approaching this as an 'impartial observer', since I don't know anything at all about this stuff. 'Christensen' looks right at first for the printing you can see above the label. Sort of. At least the 'SEN' at the end looks feasible. But the 'AGATES' theory shows better odds. If you assume that those last two 'dot-like' things aren't part of the lettering (maybe a quotation mark?), then the previous 5 or possibly 6 bits that we see could easily fit in with the printing of 'AGATES'. The top of the final 'TES' is pretty clear, and what you see in front of that are a less clear but still fairly convincing tops of a 'G' and 'A'. For the 'A' you only see the smallest piece of the top-most point. My two cents, for what it's worth! ( : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted January 5, 2015 Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 I tried to post an image, and it failed miserably. I'll give it one more shot in a few minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
migbar Posted January 5, 2015 Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 Akro Agates, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted January 5, 2015 Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 Okay. With luck this will be a larger image. Hopefully you can see that G A T E S and " (maybe) look more than reasonable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted January 5, 2015 Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 I think that's a quotation mark on the end. Check out the "Akro Agate" in quotes on the label. Even with no "s" it shows they liked their ". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg11 Posted January 5, 2015 Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 I would say if you are a box collector it was a good snag, I dont recall seeing another like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBlock Posted January 5, 2015 Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 I've seen a couple of these boxes with the metal tabs over the years. They were printed Akro Agates. I think Hansel might have one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mon Posted January 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 Yep, Akro! I was going to bid thinking I could knock out owning two co boxes in one shot! But my couple hundred tops would have fell well short. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaboo Posted January 5, 2015 Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 Stephanie is right. let me shine a little light on this. This was a salesman's sample box that Akro used as a shipping box. If you were to peel that label off, it would say Assorted agate onyx, #0 to 6 incl. No 1 Display box, and below that, N0 112 Display box, under that, Manufactured by, The Akro Agate Co, Clarksburg W.Va. I wouldn't peel the label off tho, the label is harder to find than the box is. I have seen one other with this label over the sample box, it contained red onyx marbles. The marbles that were in this box were much later, since when this box was sent the Chinese checker marbles were not being manufactured. ~Ernie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted January 5, 2015 Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 Ta da! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mon Posted January 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 Ernie either has a photographic memory or x-ray eyes......what a nice box! Any info or timeline on the paper Akro label? I like both and not sure if I would break out the blow drier and see some peeling action...probably ruin both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdesousa Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 This is the way the contents were arranged. Les Jones had a complete original set. I've copied it, using older No.16 and No. 112 boxes (pre printed numbering) and a tan box in which Les' had seven Striped Onyx marbles with a diagonal divider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mon Posted January 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 Thanks for that post HD, fits like a glove! Stupid question....did the tan box have a reversed by size two rows of 0-6 onyx=14 marbles? And what type was standard in the no.16 and no.112 box, onyx also? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdesousa Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 Thanks for that post HD, fits like a glove! Stupid question....did the tan box have a reversed by size two rows of 0-6 onyx=14 marbles? And what type was standard in the no.16 and no.112 box, onyx also? The tan box did have two rows "reversed by size". No.6, 5, 4 on one side and 3,2,1,0 on the other, I think. The 16 and 112 boxes contained striped onyx as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mon Posted January 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 I was informed that most of these boxes are found without postage. To find them with only adds to the rarity and value. It would of had 2 more 1 cent stamps that you can see fell off this box. Kinda stuff I would never think of......... Oh, and the tan boxes found unaltered had the same color onyx marbles in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdesousa Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 I was informed that most of these boxes are found without postage. To find them with only adds to the rarity and value. It would of had 2 more 1 cent stamps that you can see fell off this box. Kinda stuff I would never think of......... Oh, and the tan boxes found unaltered had the same color onyx marbles in it. Akro used a variety of mailers. With a shipping label covering all the printing on the lid of the box, I suppose it could have been used as a generic mailing box. My mailing box, now empty, has a single cancelled 6 cent stamp on the mailing label. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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