Akro Agate Patterns and Shapes

Akro Agate Children's Dishes: Akro Agate produced a very large line of Children's playtime dish sets. These sets came in solid and transparent colors. Often the sets were multicolored and mixed with bright pretty colors that would appeal to a child. Each boxed set came with a number and a pattern name. Most pieces in the Children's sets are marked with the symbol of a crow with marbles in its claws on the bottom or back of the piece.

These boxed sets often came in two sizes. The larger set (only slightly larger) sometimes came with a tumbler, pitcher, and soup bowl which is missing in the smaller sets. Akro Agate sets are highly collectible in today's antique marketplace. Sets with original boxes are prized by collectors.

Concentric Ring - (1930s) This beautiful set of children's dishes came in both large and small sizes. The sets were always boxed with Stacked Disc and Interior Panel teapots, sugars and creamers. Concentric Ring has fine horizontal lines which run aound the outside of cups, and on the inside, or top of bowls, dinner plates, and saucers. This set came in mulitcolored opaque sets, and transparent cobalt blue. Concentric Ring is always well made. Akro Agate made another pattern (one their less expensive lines of Akro Children's Dishes), called Concentric Rib. There is very little difference between the sets with exception of quality. Concentric Rib sets usually came in less vibrant colors and were boxed with Stacked Disc teapots, sugars, and creamers (these pieces are lacking interior panels).

Raised Daisy - (1930s) Raised Daisy was produced by the Akro Agate Company. This pattern is easily identified by a series of 3 daises on the center of most pieces. Flat pieces have a series of small daises in a circular pattern around the rim. Raised Daisy only comes in the smaller of the two sizes of Akro Children's Dishes. Raised Daisy is usually found in opaque Yellow , Green, and Blue. There have been no reported pieces found in transparent colors. Blue cups and saucers are rare. Finding a complete blue set is a collector's dream.

Stacked Disc and Interior Panel - (1930s) Stacked Disc and Interior Panel was one of Akro Agates most popular patterns. This pattern came in both a large and small size. Large cups measure 1 1/8" high, while small cups are only 3/4" high. Setting side by side the small pieces are easy to tell from larger ones, but it takes an experienced collector to tell the difference when finding items out by themselves. Stacked Disc and Panel can be found in Opaque Green, Opaque Yellow, Opaque Blue, Opaque White (saucers and plates, only), Pumpkin, Transparent Green, and Transparent Blue (Cobalt).

Transparent colors came boxed in one color only. Boxed Opaque sets were sold in a mixture of bright pretty colors, and sometimes in one solid color.

This pattern is easily identified by the round horizontal panels on the outside, or backside of saucers, and plates and on the inside of cups, teapots, soup bowls and tumblers. There are also vertical panels on the inside of all the pieces.

Flower Pots

Banded Darts- Banded Darts came in 3 sizes.

#302- 5 1/2" High

#301 3 1/4" High

#300- 2 1/2" High

These flower pots are fairly common in solid colors, although the larger pots are harder to find. The pots are seldom seen in marblized colors, but they do exist. Most of the pots do not have the Akro mark.

Powder Jars

Mexicali Jars (1940)- These pretty jars were made by the Akro Agate Company for the Pickwick Cosmetic Corporation. They were sold filled with bath powder. The container was designed to be used as cigarette jar when the powder was used up. Most of these pretty jars remained in the bedroom or bathroom and were used to hold trinkets or powder. Today they are collected as powder jars.