Beautiful Collectible Marbles

Antique and modern marbles differ in a few key ways including appearance quality perfection and manufacturing process.

Beautiful collectible marbles. These guidelines will help you identify rare antique marbles and add them to your collection. Most antique marbles are handmade and contain a pontil mark or a rough spot that indicates cutting from a can or glass pontil rod. Aug 4 2013 explore janet vinas s board beautiful marbles on pinterest. Many collectors obsess over old marbles because they remember playing with them as children.

The beautiful colors ribbons and patterns made them popular among children in the 18th and 19th centuries. Glass marbles are famous among marble collectors today. 100 champion 5 8 or mixed transparent clearie marbles 7 99. 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.

Black and white navarre marble 1638. Vintage glass marbles playing marbles cats eye marbles craft marbles collectible marbles 104 marbles green marble end of day glass marbles krazyvintagegypsies. Buy it now 7 50 shipping. Aggies for example are marbles made of agate while some alleys are made of alabaster.

See more ideas about marble glass marbles paperweights. Beautiful antique glass marbles lot vintage peltier akro agate christensen mini. Over the years increasingly intricate and beautiful marbles have become available. Because here they come.

Save up to 10 when you buy more. There are 316 beautiful marbles for sale on etsy and they cost 49 76 on average. This unique zebra colored marble fetched nearly 1700 at auction multiple times more than what most people spend on marbles in their entire lives. The most common beautiful marbles material is.

Magnifying glass or jeweler s loupe. As a result collectors have become interested in finding rare or interesting examples. Marbles also have an entire slang language built around them.