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richsantaclaus
Joined: 17 Dec 2009 Posts: 85 Location: Inland Empire California
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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Killer marbles - wish I owned one! _________________ *<(:-})>>>>>> |
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wvglass
Joined: 22 May 2008 Posts: 108 Location: West Virginia
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 7:03 am Post subject: |
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Ack! Another problem I have is posting something, then forgetting about. I recently picked up DSLR photography again (used to do SLR with film, then drifted form it), and I spend a lot of time over at flickr posting photos. I'll get some of what Akro looks like now soon. If anyone is interested in some photography:
www.flickr.com/photos/astralwill
Sorry . . . shameless self promotion . . .
Anyway . . . I had hoped that someone would have seen a marble like that tornado before, and I could get beyond the "there's only this one and Roger Hardy's." I even sent Alan B. a photo, thinking if anyone, he'd seen one. But nope.
The reason I though Feidler was because of the way the blood goes through the center. I'd read where he was THE glass man, and some of the old-timers used to talk about some master glass workers there (not Master as in MMarble!). A lot of what some of us know around here is from the old timers. These diggers here today are hit and miss, surface diggers, ruining people's yards to sell beat up marbles to support their drug habit. They don't give a damn about the history or the beauty of the marbles. Only money. I've not resold ONE marble I've bought in the last 10 years. Pretty sad, this town. Yet I digress. One of the older diggers, who claimed that there were only 11 of these made, may have got that info from an old-timer. He got out of marbles, though . . . don't know why. I never made it to Hardy's. I don't go down there often . . . various reasons.
Only a couple of old-timers are left. One of them is the fellow who made the squirrel peanut dipper. I think he has the only one of those (or Hardy has it now); the rest were destroyed. So they did play, experiment. I still like to think that a couple of people stayed after hours and made their own marbles, and honestly, those stories have been told.
Hard to tell . . . I wish you all could see it in hand . . . the photo just doesn't really cut it. I still need to learn photos. Is there a preferred f-stop when taking photos of mibs?
I am rambling . . . thanks everyone! |
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lstmmrbls Site Admin
Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 696
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 10:21 am Post subject: |
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In have found that a lot of information gained from old-timers is full of assumption. _________________ Peace,Galen |
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Ponkochan Site Admin
Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 2627 Location: Southeast
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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Cool mibs and love to hear the stories behind them. A lot of the dug Akros called "Experimentals" have much speculation behind them. Would love for someone to unearth some type of documentation about how Akro decided what marble designs to make and sell. Did they do a lot of experimenting before deciding?
Anyway, the marbles that William posted reminded me of this one that I sold to Clyde. It's been called a "Cyclone". I've only seen a couple of them. I just copied and pasted this from the previous post that I'd made.
I found it! Here's the "Akro Cyclone" that Clyde's talking about and that he now owns.
It's one of the best-looking "Experimentals" that came from the 'digs'........and one of the hardest to find, IMHO. It's also difficult to capture all the internal action in a photo.
Taken outdoors in sunlight.
Here's one in this group shot of hand-gathered Akros from the digs (posted by Gary-BR549).
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David Chamberlain
Joined: 18 May 2009 Posts: 214
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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Just flat out from the appearance of that marble I'd lean fully towards some extracurricular experimentation with no machines involved. Would love to have Roger put the matter in writing for the next issue of The Crow. David |
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