Some Kind of Slag?

[Marbleized]

Hi Everyone, Can anyone tell me what this is? I'm thinking some kind of slag. The transparent base is red and the swirls or ribbons are white. But, I see orange swirls or it could be that the glass that sits over the white swirls, close to the surface, shows that the red base might be more orange-red. Not quite sure. Nothing glows, btw. The size is .61". Thanks!

[Akro75]

Akro slag, if true red...can't remember if they did orangeish...

[Chad G.]

x 2,  Agree w/ Liam, Akro slag

[Berryb]

Glass that looks red in hand, but when held up to the sun shows a definite orange tint is called "Pidgeon blood". Generally a much darker red than most slags, but I have seen some dark enough.

I have read/been told that the old red glass required gold as part of the formula. I think that may be why some marble manufacturers did not make red slags. At least until a different ingredient could be found. Thanks

Bruce

[William]

The orange is a cool feature....I have an Onyx Auger and a Prize Name with the orange feature. The Auger, it shows up with light or camera flash, while the Prize Name is orange in hand. And the Akro mib I picked up last week (listed here in ID), is like a Root beer color too me but I suppose some would say a shot of orange...cool stuff 😊

[Marbleized]

9 hours ago, Berryb said:

Glass that looks red in hand, but when held up to the sun shows a definite orange tint is called "Pidgeon blood". Generally a much darker red than most slags, but I have seen some dark enough.

I have read/been told that the old red glass required gold as part of the formula. I think that may be why some marble manufacturers did not make red slags. At least until a different ingredient could be found. Thanks

Bruce

Thanks Bruce! Interesting info! I guess they tried all kinds of ingredients back then.

[Marbleized]

4 hours ago, William said:

The orange is a cool feature....I have an Onyx Auger and a Prize Name with the orange feature. The Auger, it shows up with light or camera flash, while the Prize Name is orange in hand. And the Akro mib I picked up last week (listed here in ID), is like a Root beer color too me but I suppose some would say a shot of orange...cool stuff 😊

I think I have one of those augers. I'll need to pull it out and do some comparing. So my current marble project is to take all the marbles of each maker and sort them according to colors and tints (?). Then I was going to take all the marbles that I can't ID and compare them to every group. My work area is going to be a mess for a while. It's a good thing my collection is relatively small. Maybe it's a waste of time, but I figured I'd still learn something out of it. LOL!

[akroorka]

I do not really Know If Akro ever made "true" or intentional Orange slags. There are some that sure look orange though---a really hard find. I have no problem calling the OP an Akro red Slag.

Marble--On!!!

[William]