RARE - Vintage Akro Agate Glass popular #653 - Yellow Slag Glass Rectangular Vertically Ribbed Planter Dish

Vintage Akro Agate Glass #653 - Yellow Slag Glass Rectangular Vertically Ribbed Planter Dish

Pretty swirled bright daffodil yellow glass with subtle swirls of lighter yellow and almost white glass

Alternating wide and narrow vertical ribs with a similarly scalloped rim - gorgeous!

Hard to find large size rectangular planter

20cm long rim
10cm wide rim
8.5cm tall
.72kg

Embossed on underside: MADE IN USA (logo) 653
In good vintage condition

History Lesson:
Akro Agate was set up in Akron, Ohio in 1911 by George Rankin, Gilbert Marsh and Horace Hill
Rankin & Marsh 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 popular, 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 coloured streaks in the glass
They called this 'blended colours' or 'multi- colours'; 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