Alan Posted August 17, 2008 Report Share Posted August 17, 2008 Thought I would share this Akro Sparkler with a little more than half of the surface covered with a dense emerald green aventurine: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carole154 Posted August 17, 2008 Report Share Posted August 17, 2008 Sunglasses absolutely required for viewing. Wow, that is one loaded marble. Truly lives up to it's name. Very nice! carole Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted August 17, 2008 Report Share Posted August 17, 2008 that's too wild for words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaboo Posted August 18, 2008 Report Share Posted August 18, 2008 and absolutely prooves that those are indeed akro.( some have questioned that...not us) it looks like the aventurine was sprayed on with a paint can doesn't it? that's how ours looks too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted August 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2008 and absolutely prooves that those are indeed akro.( some have questioned that...not us)it looks like the aventurine was sprayed on with a paint can doesn't it? that's how ours looks too! If you have an example I'd be interested in a photo or two. I've been thinking about the unusual surface layer of "aventurine" and why it would be that thick, right on the surface, that color etc. and how that would occur in the glass pot. That led me to a (completely factually unsupported) guess that the machine operator may have been feeding colorant (metal salts) into the pot by shovel (standard method) and could have dropped some on the rollers. When the next few marbles went through the rollers - they would have picked up the loose dry powder - which was then fused to the glass (but only on the surface). This color of "aventurine" isn't the normal color we see in subsurface glass and is far too dense....hard to imagine any other reason it would be on the surface only. Anyway...thats my unsupported speculation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohn691500 Posted August 18, 2008 Report Share Posted August 18, 2008 Amazing marble bro,,, love it,,,bj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsMopar Posted August 18, 2008 Report Share Posted August 18, 2008 A Sparkling Sparkler...now that's just tooooooo fabulous! Thanx for sharing Alan. :-) Felicia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akro gatherer Posted August 19, 2008 Report Share Posted August 19, 2008 Hey Alan, where did you get the adventurine to put on this sparkler? You did a good job. LOL, just kidding! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marboman Posted August 19, 2008 Report Share Posted August 19, 2008 That is an amazing marble!I will be looking for one like it,I don't imagine they made many of them.Thanks for sharing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaboo Posted August 19, 2008 Report Share Posted August 19, 2008 I will post a picture tomorrow. I think your thoughts on how they may have done this could be on target. I have seen more than one though, so I am also wondering if they were an experimental or just a limited run thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaboo Posted August 19, 2008 Report Share Posted August 19, 2008 sorry no sunshine, but here's pic. as promised. BTW blue and green lovers~~eat your hearts out. LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted August 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2008 sorry no sunshine, but here's pic. as promised.BTW blue and green lovers~~eat your hearts out. LOL! If your aventurine is strictly at the surface like mine - then my guess of glass colorant salts on the rollers and some hot marbles picking it up seem all the more likely. Otherwise there would be some in the green or clear matrix. Thanks for the pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaboo Posted August 19, 2008 Report Share Posted August 19, 2008 yep surface Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoop Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 I don't think I'm allowed to print my first reaction to that marble!!! "Holy *%#$&*!!!!!" Mannnnnn, that's amazing!!!!! :Emoticon-jawdrop: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunnersDad Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Assuming that your guys hypothesis is correct, what would be a good presumption of the number of these aventurine sparklers that were produced. 50-100 or far less before all the aventurine was picked up off the rollers by the molten hot sparklers? And Dani...your's is amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted August 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Assuming that your guys hypothesis is correct, what would be a good presumption of the number of these aventurine sparklers that were produced. 50-100 or far less before all the aventurine was picked up off the rollers by the molten hot sparklers?And Dani...your's is amazing! There is no way of knowing the answer to that supposition. If I had to guess - based on the shape of the rollers, the fact that they are smooth and constantly in motion (unlikely to hold metal salts well) - if it were a one-time occurence - probably fewer than 12. If it happened 3-5 times over a year - then 3-5 times that. Then divide by the high percentage that were lost to time and/or discarded and never dug from a dump site. It is really a freak/chance occurence - essentially an unintended and unwanted contamination of a marble whose production design isn't supposed to look like that. Manufacturers were pretty good at culling their production pieces and dumping the rejects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunnersDad Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 There is no way of knowing the answer to that supposition. If I had to guess - based on the shape of the rollers, the fact that they are smooth and constantly in motion (unlikely to hold metal salts well) - if it were a one-time occurence - probably fewer than 12. If it happened 3-5 times over a year - then 3-5 times that. Then divide by the high percentage that were lost to time and/or discarded and never dug from a dump site. It is really a freak/chance occurence - essentially an unintended and unwanted contamination of a marble whose production design isn't supposed to look like that.Manufacturers were pretty good at culling their production pieces and dumping the rejects. Ok, that makes sense. Is there any paperwork that indicates how many runs of sparklers were produced over the period of time that Akro was a functioning marble mecca? If so that would enlighten us as too the potential even more so. Alan, if you don't me asking, how much were you able to pick up that example for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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