chicagocyclist Posted August 22, 2022 Report Share Posted August 22, 2022 Akro Sparkler!!! The sharp focus helps alot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bax Posted August 22, 2022 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2022 So this is a top shelf marble? I realize it’s not mint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenvwbug Posted August 22, 2022 Report Share Posted August 22, 2022 Some can be very beautiful..lots of varieties 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate Posted August 22, 2022 Report Share Posted August 22, 2022 It's a collectible marble, but yours is in pretty rough shape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted August 22, 2022 Report Share Posted August 22, 2022 I cave. Better pics, it`s a sparkler. Not a particularly colorful one - might be stretching the 5=color thing - but nontheless an Akro sparkler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chicagocyclist Posted August 22, 2022 Report Share Posted August 22, 2022 29 minutes ago, greenvwbug said: Some can be very beautiful..lots of varieties Wow!!! Nice collection!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chicagocyclist Posted August 22, 2022 Report Share Posted August 22, 2022 27 minutes ago, ann said: I cave. Better pics, it`s a sparkler. Not a particularly colorful one - might be stretching the 5=color thing - but nontheless an Akro sparkler. Yeah, seems the 5-colors is stretched a bit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Posted August 22, 2022 Report Share Posted August 22, 2022 I would have been happy for it being either Master or Akro (with a Heavy lean towards Akro), but exactly why I cast my vote for those up close pics...detail is everything. I think we can see now how difficult it was too see all the colors at first. And like Ron said, maybe not a top shelf Sparkler, but still nice to have. And I wish it was in better shape... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akroorka Posted August 23, 2022 Report Share Posted August 23, 2022 On 8/22/2022 at 3:49 PM, Bax said: So this is a top shelf marble? I realize it’s not mint. 'Scuse Me... While I Kiss The Sky. I am switching stations and jumping on the Akro Train. Nice images—they do matter. Yes it is a top shelf Akro, “Sparklers” always were and will continue to be, but condition is everything, keep it for future referencing at the very least. Collectors’ will look in lots for years and not find one. They are not a “common” thing to find, many collectors will call them the first “Cateye” because of the injection process that was used. Marble—On!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted August 23, 2022 Report Share Posted August 23, 2022 Thanks for bringing up the first cat`s-eye thing. A Closet Cat Fancier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chicagocyclist Posted August 23, 2022 Report Share Posted August 23, 2022 6 minutes ago, ann said: Thanks for bringing up the first cat`s-eye thing. A Closet Cat Fancier I have mint condition Asian Cat's Eyes with that green cast to the glass from my childhood, 3 colors, about a dozen of them and a several Boulders, all which I love! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted August 23, 2022 Report Share Posted August 23, 2022 Ah hah! Another one! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire1981 Posted August 24, 2022 Report Share Posted August 24, 2022 It looks like Buzz Lightyear to me 🔥 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire1981 Posted August 24, 2022 Report Share Posted August 24, 2022 Bo Stiff by far had one of the most impressive Sparkler collections I was lucky enough to see before he died. His collection was insane. As I recall he showed me Sparklers that were 8 colors. If he had turned his head I would have swallowed at least one of them 🔥 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff54 Posted August 24, 2022 Report Share Posted August 24, 2022 16 hours ago, ann said: Ah hah! Another one! If I recall correctly, it was what Bob Block said. Years ago, Bob opened the very 1st community marble collector's chat board on the net. He gave lectures live in text. Questions and answers where he believed; based from years of association with marble collectors and research there of; 'Sparklers', accordingly, 'Are the first virtual Cat-eye'. That's to say, the process or technique began with Akro's Sparkler. So, Ann of your favorites; Sparkler and Cat-eye would be very close relatives. The quest though is: How in the heck did Akro do it? Bob said something like; 'They are injected with color'. I think, that's, due to our inability to discover a patent where it may be explained, a mystery still. Certainly, nobody is sitting next to molten gobs and sticking needles to 'inject' colors 😇 Maybe a hint is within Marble King's Video not long ago showing how they make Cat-eyes. Simple: With a big pot of molten clear glass, just load shovels of your colored culet into the center of the pot, It sinks into the bottom and presto bingo, out of the nozzle where it's cut, you get cemeterial crossed cat-eyes. OK, I seriously, cannot buy that. 😉 I mean, near perfect cemeterial crossed thin lines of color just magically forms in fluidity as it sinks to the bottom of the tank?? I think perhaps, they are not revealing what's actually going on to protect their trade secrets. And, is this "Injection" I cannot find a relative way to consider what MK says they are doing is 'Injection? Can you? However, it may indicate what Akro did. With a tank of clear; shoveling Red, Yellow, Green, Blue and White, similarly, into the center of their tank. How does it stay centered and colors cemeterial separated so it blends from one color to another? whelp, good question, regardless, perhaps MK gives us a clue to how cat-eyes are advanced Sparklers, just the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akroorka Posted August 24, 2022 Report Share Posted August 24, 2022 I have looked at this sale quite a few times. It may help to explain the injection process a bit. https://www.ebay.com/itm/175378165194?hash=item28d55a6dca:g:lPIAAOSwXNhgYdBZ&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoJrlJk1H57q5jL1K0u%2FZeNfTd%2FgwvT8hIVNhwv9ElFKA690Gbe1snCyszDDIxWZvNFCuJoJHwUTwQ%2FrSff0vZCovGWSTFSoFOin0gmi5gN6jwgGXF%2FXnQZnJ4RROtQEwY5U8q53g20X%2FhgGcTPFp3CxGN2TR4WDPmOpT8CCOhm4umqjGJDtl9SQU8XMq4uNG%2BC1xRBTHw83z88XIOd6bIeE%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR9DQtovaYA Marble—On!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad G. Posted August 24, 2022 Report Share Posted August 24, 2022 Sorry I couldn't resist ... 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky ... 🎸 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted August 24, 2022 Report Share Posted August 24, 2022 I always picture the injection thing (technical term) as more like the tip of a frosting nozzle centered in the transparent glass stream, with the hot glass colors fed into it by separate tubes/streams; you could in that way control what colors the different blades were. Akro probably only had a plain, central nozzle, and directed their color streams into it kind of willy-nilly. And what a nice result! And no, Marble King ain`t gonna tell you everything about anything. They`re notoriously secretive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Posted August 24, 2022 Report Share Posted August 24, 2022 I absolutely love it when a thread takes off like this....👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire1981 Posted August 25, 2022 Report Share Posted August 25, 2022 I’m glad you’re posting Chad 🔥 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire1981 Posted August 25, 2022 Report Share Posted August 25, 2022 I’m holding out for the marble that looks like Freddie Mercury, Herman Munster or Fred Flintstone. 🔥 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire1981 Posted August 25, 2022 Report Share Posted August 25, 2022 Or Pop-Eye with spinach AV 🔥 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wvrons Posted August 25, 2022 Report Share Posted August 25, 2022 I will post information and pictures of a Cat Eye injector (if you want call it that) over in the General Marble & Glass Chat section. Later tonight hopefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted August 25, 2022 Report Share Posted August 25, 2022 Yes, do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chicagocyclist Posted August 25, 2022 Report Share Posted August 25, 2022 There's a copy of a patent submission by Peltier 1931, granted 1934, showing how they have a stream of glass and into which they inject 6 color streams to produce 3 stripes on one side and 3 on the other #17 on the drawing. It has been color coded so that you can see where the different colors of glass would originate and melt. One doesn't know if they actually even produce this but it is on file! I am sure that there are all sorts of wonderfully complex ways to inject glass into and onto other glass! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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