Collectible Marbles Guide

Computer games are a favorite with children today and games like ringer marble arch lagging etc playing with marbles are yet to captivate the minds of these young ones.

Collectible marbles guide.

Many collectors obsess over old marbles because they remember playing with them as children. Marbles are simply little spherical balls used by children and adults to play a range of games. This unique zebra colored marble fetched nearly 1700 at auction multiple times more than what most people spend on marbles in their entire lives. Affordable glass marbles were first made in the 19th century when a special pair of scissors that.

Marbles have been made from non glass materials such as wood clay and stone for hundreds if not thousands of years. Marble collecting is all about displaying specific colored marbles. Today these vintage marbles are collected rather than played with. If you want to start making them part of your collection you should know how to identify vintage marbles.

Mint near mint good and collectible are terms for grading marbles with a plus or minus in each category. Today s collectible marbles are from the late 1800s and newer. Antique glass marbles are highly collectible from handmade examples by german glassmakers of the 1800s to vintage marbles made by machine in the early 20th century by u s. Robert block details this grading in his identification and price guide.

Companies like christensen peltier glass akro agate and vitro agate. Make offer rare navarre vintage antique glass marbles very high quality. No one knows exactly when the first marbles were invented but they date back to the times of the ancient egyptians greeks and romans who played with marbles made of stone clay or polished nuts. It had over 700 000 visitors in the few years it was open and has been missed terribly since it went down.

Grade marbles with guidelines from the marble society of america. Black and white navarre marble 1638. Mass production of marbles started only in 1800 s. Vintage marbles are only limited in number which is why they are more expensive.

This section discusses these types and offers an image identification library. His site was an invaluable resource to collectors on how to identify marbles reproductions and fakes and general knowledge for the beginner and expert alike on grading marbles and much more. Rare navarre vintage antique glass marbles very high quality. Vintage antique marble leighton glass super rare old.

The history of marbles traces back to ancient china and marbles were also found in the great pyramids of egypt. Watch this video summarizing a book on collecting antique marbles and identifying them by paul baumann. There are a number of types of non glass marbles that collectors seek out.