ann Posted May 20, 2015 Report Share Posted May 20, 2015 And BTW, those two boxes are insane, Cheese -- If you really look at each row, there are some interesting variants! I'm really liking what looks like a brown cork on white . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted May 20, 2015 Report Share Posted May 20, 2015 And just because -- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheese Posted May 31, 2015 Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 And BTW, those two boxes are insane, Cheese -- If you really look at each row, there are some interesting variants! I'm really liking what looks like a brown cork on white . . . Thanks! Those have brownish hues, some black, and some purple here and there. They are cool. Notice the boxes say "prize names" but some are just one color corks? That makes me wonder about the company use of the name. Something else that these boxes prove is that they didn't count the blends as 3 color specials, or if they did, they wouldn't have put them here in the cheaper prize name boxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted May 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 White counted as a color for the Prize Names. And, correct, the blends wouldn't have counted as a third color. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted May 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 p.s., that's a lifesaver over there on the left in the tri-colors. Not seeing the green on my screen. It was captured here though: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted July 31, 2015 Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 Just got another nice cork -- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted July 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 Sharp! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted August 19, 2015 Report Share Posted August 19, 2015 Not sure why corks have been throwing themselves at me lately . . . but this was too fun to resist -- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted August 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2015 Delicious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted August 21, 2015 Report Share Posted August 21, 2015 Just some more Akros. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted August 21, 2015 Report Share Posted August 21, 2015 And another grouping of keepers and of which it seems I only have found few examples (I have a few of number five). John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted August 21, 2015 Report Share Posted August 21, 2015 And lastly (for now), this oddball. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted August 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2015 Thanks much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted September 10, 2015 Report Share Posted September 10, 2015 Purple Popeye Patch. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted September 10, 2015 Report Share Posted September 10, 2015 This orange snake on red. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted September 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2015 Purple Popeye Patch. John Oh yah! Now that actually looks like one which was meant to be a pop! Cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted September 17, 2015 Report Share Posted September 17, 2015 (edited) Picked up this weird, near shooter Akro cork in a jar of mostly unspectacular mibs just last week. I thought I'd share. John    Edited June 28, 2016 by J_Ding Removed pictures and replaced with better ones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted September 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2015 Pretty! The word "meaty" comes to mind also. Is part of that red ox? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted September 17, 2015 Report Share Posted September 17, 2015 Pretty! The word "meaty" comes to mind also. Is part of that red ox? That's it! Akro meatball cork maybe. Yes, under the scope it looks horsehair/oxblood like filaments....a bit occluded by the rusty glass, so hard to tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Steph Posted September 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2015 Akro Unique Agates box set http://morphyauctions.hibid.com/lot/20887891/akro-agate-no--00-unique-agates-box-set- Clearly those are Royals, but I'm pretty sure they would also have been sold in a box like this. I need to pull out the information George Sourlis has sent me on Heroes and Uniques. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted September 20, 2015 Report Share Posted September 20, 2015 Heroes and Uniques were more like multicolor stiated patches, right? Weren't they the collector's "bird" series . . . Grebe, Peackock, etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted September 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2015 Heroes and Uniques were more like multicolor stiated patches, right? Weren't they the collector's "bird" series . . . Grebe, Peackock, etc? That is what the texts said when I first started collecting. But I think that information is dated. Possibly based on limited boxes being available at the time. Sort of like how (I presume) it was lack of many boxes and ads being available at the time which allowed the name "Special" to get stuck to three-color corks. Part of the info I'll be trying to gather together from George will be his conclusions about Hero and Unique being later names for Royals and some other patch. I should have gone to find it before I posted, but I often do things backward. Make the post and then it gives me the incentive to hunt for the extra info. Now you've got me wondering about the birds. When where they made? In the texts from back when, I seem to recall Heroes and Uniques being thought of as "early". But I tend to agree with George about them being later. Some evidence for them being later is the names showing up in a later Master advertisement ... which I will now scan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted September 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2015 I think Unique is now supposed by some reliable people to be a later name for Tri-Color Agates. This is from AMMM. I don't see a date but I think it's from the 1950's. Maybe I can nail that down later. But it's evidence for Heroes and Uniques being later names. And that brings me back to the mystery of when the birds sometimes found in those boxes were made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted September 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2015 *now off to post that brochure in the Master pix thread* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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