Dug up a pretty marble today..

[Marbleguy]

I drove out from my desert ghost town to a long-defunct dumpsite. About two minutes of digging produced a 1930s era Akro Agate 'shooter' corkscrew marble. Base color is white covered with an orange swirl circling the marble from top to bottom.

 

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[Road Dog]

Kool! Sounds like a Prize Name.

 

[Road Dog]

Pics!, Pics!, Pics!, Pics!

 

[MEinWV]

Yes! I like tx-t's suggestion! Post your best mibs in a group pic. Sounds like they are mainly Akro's, so that would be a nice pic.

Here is a group pic of some of my fave dump dugs to give you some inspiration.. These are all MK's. I don't find much else around here in the marble valley.

 

[Marbleguy]

I've only found one MK that I know of..

..and I'm working on those pics. Problem seems to be I need to get the pics down to 512K. Am looking for the camera instruction booklet.

 

[pete83]

Hey Marbleguy, if you want to email the pics to me , be glad to change em to 512k and send em back to you. pete83@bellsouth.net

 

[DigginThePast]

A quick way to scale down a pic is to open it in "paint", then click on the "image" tab, then click "stretch/skew". With the "Stretch and Skew" box open you can adjust the horizontal and vertical "stretch" %'s down to the size you need them to be. When you get to the desired size save it as a new file so that you retain your original. Also, under the "image" tab, you will find "attributes" which will show the size of your photo. Hope this helps.



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[Marbleguy]

Thank you mucho for that info..

It's important to me to be able to post pics here. Got so many projects I'm involved in I keep putting it off. Am working local dumps that the townsfolk have gone thru for twenty years. But all they did was scratch the surface then give up. I have excavated so many artifacts that the local museum has'nt got room to hold them. It's the antique marbles I love them the most for they illustrate color and design of the past. Tiny artworks frozen forever in the sands of time. Go into any museum and it's mostly black & white photos.

 

[Road Dog]

My favorite group of Akro. The small ones are 3/4" and the largest 1". The smaller ones are a line out of a set as are the 2- 7/8" ones. Bought a tin years ago in a shop that contained nothing but lines of 3/4" Akro of various types. All were in mint condition.

 

[allen]

sounds like a beautiful marble !

 

[silvercop]