Akro Agate Glass Company

GLASS
ANIMAL
COVERED
DISHES*
AKRO AGATE
GLASS
COMPANY
IDENTIFICATION GUIDE
*CHICKENS NOT INCLUDED
JENNIFER PATTON

ABOUT ME
Hi! My name is Jen and this is a little bit about myself. First, I must say this project was a lot of fun.
Like a book from my gradeschool years lol. I don’t know if children today still do book reports, but when
I was in school, they were required and boy did I dread reading the assigned books then having to
summarize them! I loved reading books that interested me and hopefully this will interest you. I created
it for anyone that needs help with identification. For the novice glass collectors that buy animal covered
dishes because they fall in love with the way they look or the type of animals they are, or simply for
their colors. For the avid collectors who enjoy buying a few of each animal regardless of the maker. For
the veteran collectors who may have hundreds of glass dishes who never cease to amaze me with their
beautiful collections. For the people that have inherited or purchased someone’s entire collection or
part of a collection and need help to identify things. For the people like me that are meticulous about
every detail needing to label things and just absolutely need to know the whats, whens, whos, hows and
whys of the animal dishes they own. For me, what started with one Asian yellow stained glass bunny on
a nest, has flourished into a full blown collection of hundreds of mixed and matched animal covered
“candy” dishes of all glass types and colors. No particular glass maker, just everything I can’t live
without. LOL. Anyone that knows me would tell you that I stop at nothing, studying book after book
searching for answers about my own glass animals until I find them. I have never been satisfied with a
mystery….unless it involves me watching Columbo, my lifelong favorite television program! I am a
mystery solver... a true detective. I get this from my Mother, Cindy -Sultana- Wheatley. I need to get to
the bottom of a piece of unidentified glass. It drives me bananas not to know everything I can about
each piece that I own. Next, I will tell you that the monetary value of my glassware means nothing to
me. I collect it because I love it. However, unique and rare is always a find! Sure, like every collector, I
love a bargain and have had to pass up many pieces that I could not afford. Ooooh the ones that got
away. They haunt me. I can assure you that when I get a new addition to my collection, it has found its
forever home. Someone before me and usually possibly before them owned these animal covered
dishes making a kind of history that I can only imagine in my mind, its importance to each person. There
is a reason behind every single glassware in every single dwelling. Glass symbolizes many things. It is
proudly displayed. It is important to the person who owns it. I enjoy seeing the happiness glassware
brings to people, especially these animal covered dishes. Who doesn’t love animals? I also enjoy seeing
my collection knowing these pieces of history live on and hope that when I am long gone, they will be in
other homes. My glass brings me peace; most peaceful in the evenings when the cabinet lights are on
and the glass does its natural thing; what it was intended to do since the day it was made...look pretty!
To me, it is reminiscent of having a year round Christmas Tree. Glass is AMAZING! I am a country girl
through and through. I love all things nature. I am an avid bird watcher and an all around animal lover. I
live in the beautiful state of Kentucky with my husband and our two dogs, Monkey and Johnnie, who by
the way, is named after my all time favorite singer, Johnny Cash.

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Akro agate glass Company
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akro agate Glass company
Akro Agate Glass Company was formed in 1911 in Akron, Ohio but
relocated to Clarksburg, WV in 1914. Their first 21 years in business, they
produced marbles. By 1932, they stopped making marbles and began to
make vases, ashtrays and other small items in many beautiful slag
colors. They produced Colonial Lady and Scotty Puff Boxes between the
1930's-'40's. Struggling with competition against foreign imports, Akro
Agate closed in 1951.
Akro= A crow, the bird which symbolizes transformation and change.
The Akro Agate logo is a Crow in flight, carrying marbles in its beak and
feet. (See photo) Akro Agate is pronounced: a-crow agget
Agate stones symbolize harmony and balance and are said to be linked
to bright ideas and positive thinking.

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Akro Agate Scotty puff box
Akro Agate Scotty Puff Box was produced between 1939-1942. Colors were Amber,
Crystal, Ice Blue, White Milk Glass, Pink Milk Glass, Green Milk Glass and Lime
Green Milk Glass. There were many shades of Blue Milk Glass; Baby Blue, Light
Blue, Cobalt Blue, Aqua Blue, Blue Slag, etc. Amber, Crystal, Ice Blue and Milk
Glass in shades of Green are less commonly found. Base marked MADE IN U.S. OF
AMERICA along with the Akro crow logo. 6 1/2" high x 3 1/2" wide.
Photos
by
Marian
Lanchman
Pink Milk Glass Scotty / White Milk Glass Colonial Lady / White Milk Glass Scotty
4 Base photos by:
www.eBay.com/str/tidewatermall
Blue Milk Glass
Marian Lanchman

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Akro Agate Scotty puff box
Pink Milk Glass by Lianne McNeil
Blue Milk Glass
www.eBay.com/str/
tidewatermall
Amber by Melissa Pace Twilley
Photo shared from:
https://www.wvencyclopedia.
org/articles/180
Article written by Dean Six:
"Akro Agate Company." e-WV: The
West Virginia Encyclopedia. 07
December 2010. Web. 21 July 2022.

Akro Agate Scotty puff box
***RARE*** Cobalt Blue
Green
Ice Blue
Crystal
All photos courtesy of Jim and Vonnie Cotton
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akro agate Glass company
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Akro Agate Glass Company:
Book: Bedroom & Bathroom Glassware of The Depression Years by
Margaret & Kenn Whitmyer, published by Collector Books, copyright
1990 by Margaret & Kenn Whitmyer Pages 22-23-SCOTTY COLORS
Book: the Milk Glass Book By Frank Chiarenza & James Slater,
published by Schiffer Publishing Ltd, copyright 1998 by Frank
Chiarenza and James Slater Page 69-RABBIT
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Margaret Whitmyer
Family of Frank Chiarenza
ALL photo contributors