Akro?

[Tommy]

Im probably off on this but I'm gonna throw it out lol

I think akro for two reasons the mib is 1in I believe akro made 1in mibs

And looks to be a patch but the patch covers 90 percent 👌 

thanks for looking ✌

[Tommy]

Here is another im thinking Akro 

.90in

[Ric]

Akro would be my guess too, Tommy.

[Chuck G]

Tommy, Akro did make one inch marbles and even (bigger) and most collectors call those that (exceed) over an inch, experimental but another term that is well discuss in many ways. Chuck G---

[Chad G.]

Yes!! Akro definitely made 1" mibs ( Buckskin, Jolly Roger, Lunchbox ) and bigger !! I think Bill said this one was a tad over 1 1/4" a "Jolly Roger" a link to the post for ya also, enter each of the marbles I've mentioned into the search bar, loads of info for ya on the big uns.. "Thanks for the pics Bill " great mib .........

LINK : https://marbleconnection.com/topic/25962-round-and-round-we-go/?tab=comments#comment-224156

 

[Tommy]

Appreciate the input  👌  . Thanks everyone for all  the information you have provided for us newer collectors.  It has helped me allot  .  

[wvrons]

I don't think the over one inch were any kind of experiment. About all or all makers who had a one inch machine made some marbles over the one inch roll size. MK, Vitro, Alley and others have made marbles over one inch. They were not experiments. Another old myth. Every machine roll size at some point during a run will make marbles just a little under and a little over the actual roll groove size. If the stream coming from the furnace through the shear gets a little small or large the marble size changes. The operator will adjust the furnace hot glass stream flow size sometimes often to keep it the correct size to match the roll groove size. Most of the oversize as seen in the picture above will have orange peel, a roll mark or slightly out of round. Because the hot glass glob did not fit the roll groove correctly. Many things can affect or change the size of the glass stream coming out of the furnace. To hot and the stream thins and gets smaller. To cold and the stream slows and gets to large for the roll groove.  Just below the furnace outlet is a flat or curved or V piece of metal that works in and out manually like a gate or valve. This piece of metal is moved in or out to close or open the flow more coming out of the furnace. We cut the flow back many times at Jabo with a 5/8 machine and made pee wee marbles. But 30-50% would have roll marks because the flow was to small for the roll groove. Roll marks are not always cold roll marks as people say or type. Cold roll marks are usually only during start up, after a machine has sat not running any glass across it and cooled completely. Roll marks happen frequently and several different things can cause them. When they happen it is the operators job to correct it and fast. When the marbles get undersize or oversize it is the operators job to correct it and fast. Because the marbles are non standard product.  Non standard product, not a experiment. The word experiment is used to drive the price up. When a marble dealer says experiment around me, my red flags go up. One or two or more things, they want to get more money than usual. Or they have never spent any hours watching machine made marbles being made. Or they will not give up on old myths that make no sense. Marbles were cheap kids toys. Not a penny each.  Experiment word is easy to use because no one can explain what that was or means. Most so called marble making experiments have explanations. Most were just non standard production or mistakes that just happened and then they made it into steady production. Just putting another thought out there on what I think is a old myth. Everyone will make up their own mind. But look at over one inch machine made marbles and look for orange peel, roll mark, or slightly out of round.  Were they doing  experiments trying for orange peel, roll mark, or slightly out of round ???  Just one more marble myth for me that I try to give a explanation for that might be possible.  But old thoughts and beliefs are almost impossible to change. Once it is in print it is the absolute truth. But ask for the proof. I have never stopped asking.  But I have got many answers that I am satisfied with, that make sense to me.  

[Chad G.]

A great post about some of Akros rarest big mibs :

Some really good pix of a buckskin & from Ron & a Jolly Roger & the exceptionally rare lunchbox from Bill M. Courtesy of (AAM)

LINK : https://www.allaboutmarbles.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2210&p=304797&hilit=lunchbox#p304797