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IDK, I guess you could call this Coke bottle transparent green and oxblood an 'Experiential'?

It's a Akro dug-up and I've never seen another like or remotely close to it. 

Photographing it is/was a pain, because it looks like there's a black line bordering the yellow; 2nd photo but it's brown, like tan-ish and not the oxblood blending. . Yet as it blends into the yellow it's as if its black bleeding in it,  there's no brown tones in the yellow rather, black-ish. Go figure?. ( Dang, I use to be pretty good making photos, sigh.)

Got a twist which makes a tunnel you can see right through. 2nd photo. Maybe it wanted to be a corkscrew, but it's more of a fold with a  twist. 

Just shy of 7/8" at 25/32"

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On 12/16/2022 at 3:34 PM, akroorka said:

Here is a nice Akro ashtray with some unsorted corks.
I just love-em.
This type of ashtray is a heavy puppy at ½ lb—that is a lot of marbles. The corks are not too shabby either.
I have some sorting to do----
Marble—On!!
 

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Very cool 😎!!

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Akro Dug-up Snake that defied Barker's limits to the extent, with solid color, it would be a killer flame too.

Difficult to visualize in just a photo; This big Ol 'shooter has 7 full twists or spins which just happens to be the common equivalent of most multiple tipped flames. See added image of CAC flame and spin count below this magical wonder.

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Disclaimer: At the time I made this, 20 years ago the spin count seemed not so random as it appears but rather, to find and be able to create Flames with a spinning cup was never purposely done. Moreover, it's simply coincidence that the stream, out of a nozzle is small enough for the glass to lay on a gathering cup and pile as it oozes out a nozzle... Thicker the stream can produce 3 tips, thin you may find 7 tips and more.

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4 hours ago, Jeff54 said:

Disclaimer: At the time I made this, 20 years ago the spin count seemed not so random as it appears but rather, to find and be able to create Flames with a spinning cup was never purposely done. Moreover, it's simply coincidence that the stream, out of a nozzle is small enough for the glass to lay on a gathering cup and pile as it oozes out a nozzle... Thicker the stream can produce 3 tips, thin you may find 7 tips and more.

There is a group of people interested in the vintage manufacturing process of marbles and specifically the glass.  There was a rather deep study a few years ago of the dynamics of glass in liquid form and how it behaves in a glass tank.  I think you'll find that glass flow in the tank is responsible for the flow you describe resulting in that flame-line pattern, instead of it oozing out of the tank and "piling up".  Some of those dynamics will be influenced by the condition/age of the tank interior, and possibly some weather conditions.

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