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Here is a huge, for Akro Agate, CHERRYADE. The base glass is the highly UV reactive and well known cloudy Vaseline glass. On the surface is a large cherry red swirl with a bit of an opaque white tracer that for the most part dips below the surface behind the red. The little eyelash-like marks are present indicating the marble was made sometime before the Spring of 1922 when the so-called "Freeze Improvement" was installed eliminating these marks; so, this marble dates among some of the earliest marbles ever made in the United States.
All of these near one inch marbles by Akro are pretty rare, but these of the ADE family of marbles are exceptional. CONDITION: NEAR MINT(+) The surface has the bright, shiny wet look of a mint marble, but there are a couple of small circular impact marks visible in the fourth and fifth pictures. There are also what appear to be pinpricks spread around the surface, but closer inspection shows them to be tiny collapsed surface air bubbles that have some sort of metal debris in the center of each of them--possibly aventurine? Clearly as-made. You may click here to view the grading system I use. Size 24.70mm or 0.972" at the equator. | |||||
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