Vintage Akro Agate Glass #654 - Orange and White Vertically Ribbed Oval Dish or Planter
Vintage Akro Agate Glass #654 - Orange and White Vertically Ribbed Oval Dish or Planter
$26.00
This little dish is calling out to be that little pop of color needed in your autumn display! It is the prettiest little swirled soft orange and white milk glass oval ribbed planter or dish. It also has a small portion of yellow accent to the coloring on the bottom and faintly on the sides. The outside design is one of alternating wide and narrow vertical ribs with a similarly scalloped rim - gorgeous!
It is embossed on underside: MADE IN USA (logo) 654.
This dish is in really nice vintage condition - no significant cracks or blemishes. There are some scratches on the inside bottom that look like manufacturer markings to me. The top rim has some roughness and dirt has caught in those rough spots a bit.
History
Akro Agate was set up in Akron, Ohio in 1911 by George Rankin, Gilbert Marsh and Horace Hill. They had the idea of making marbles and selling them in boxes at Gilbert Marsh's shoe store. Horace Hill was an expert marble maker and they set up their machinery over Marsh's shop in Akron. Three years later they were doing so well they moved their business to a large building in Clarksburg, West Virginia where they operated for 40 years, until 1951. They made only marbles until 1932 and then expanded into a range of small items including children's tea sets, ashtrays, flower pots and novelties. Akro Agate began producing pressed glass in the 1930s, partly in response to increased competition in the marble market. Most of their pressed glass was opaque and most often there were colored streaks in the glass. They called this 'blended colors' or 'multi- colors'; what is known today by collectors as 'slag glass'. During the war they were very successful in marketing their children’s tea sets and other glassware. Unfortunately after the war, when cheap imports could once again be imported, they found it hard to compete and closed in 1951.
The company’s logo is a crow flying through the letter A (A kro = a crow) and holding a marble in its beak and another in each claw
This mark appears on the base of Akro Agate glassware (not on marbles) and on their boxes and packaging media. This dish has a very small version of this logo on the bottom.
Dimensions:
6" long, 2 1/2" high, 3 1/4" wide
It is embossed on underside: MADE IN USA (logo) 654.
This dish is in really nice vintage condition - no significant cracks or blemishes. There are some scratches on the inside bottom that look like manufacturer markings to me. The top rim has some roughness and dirt has caught in those rough spots a bit.
History
Akro Agate was set up in Akron, Ohio in 1911 by George Rankin, Gilbert Marsh and Horace Hill. They had the idea of making marbles and selling them in boxes at Gilbert Marsh's shoe store. Horace Hill was an expert marble maker and they set up their machinery over Marsh's shop in Akron. Three years later they were doing so well they moved their business to a large building in Clarksburg, West Virginia where they operated for 40 years, until 1951. They made only marbles until 1932 and then expanded into a range of small items including children's tea sets, ashtrays, flower pots and novelties. Akro Agate began producing pressed glass in the 1930s, partly in response to increased competition in the marble market. Most of their pressed glass was opaque and most often there were colored streaks in the glass. They called this 'blended colors' or 'multi- colors'; what is known today by collectors as 'slag glass'. During the war they were very successful in marketing their children’s tea sets and other glassware. Unfortunately after the war, when cheap imports could once again be imported, they found it hard to compete and closed in 1951.
The company’s logo is a crow flying through the letter A (A kro = a crow) and holding a marble in its beak and another in each claw
This mark appears on the base of Akro Agate glassware (not on marbles) and on their boxes and packaging media. This dish has a very small version of this logo on the bottom.
Dimensions:
6" long, 2 1/2" high, 3 1/4" wide