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I understand that Akro Agate didn't produce any marbles using six colored glass streams. That isn't to say they didn't make any marbles having six colors. This one has six and possibly more.
It is also one of Akro's earlier efforts. In the fifth and sixth pictures, you can see eyelash-like marks. These marks are the results of the crimping device that sheared the correct amount of glass from the stream. In the Spring of 1922, the so-called "Freeze Improvement" was installed, a device that eliminated these marks. Marbles with these marks had to have been made before that date. I am usually quite satisfied with my camera and have been using it for many years, but I'm afraid I need something with higher quality close-up abilities for this marble. For instance, I would like to have the capability to show how single-strand striations of three or four diverse colors create the grey corkscrew depicted in the first picture between the green and the black ones. Most of the colors on this marble share these characteristics. So, orange, red, black, grey, turquoise, and brown are the six different colored corkscrews that I can see without visual aids, i.e., magnification. I am very sure more colors can be found. CONDITION: The surface is wet and shiny-looking. There are some melted dimples here and there that are usually trivial, but the bottom of two or three show a white substance (sodash?) that is perceptible. You may click here to view the grading system I use. Size 16.46mm or 0.609" at the equator. | |||||
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