Collecting Antique Marbles

Knowing the value of vintage collectible marbles often is a key component when buying marbles because even though you may be.

Collecting antique marbles.

Shop for and learn about vintage and antique marbles. This section discusses these types and offers an image identification library. The marble faq has basic information on the history of marbles and marble collecting. The online marble guide and the marble gallery are based on my book marbles.

Over the years increasingly intricate and beautiful marbles have become available. Today s collectible marbles are from the late 1800s and newer. Aesthetics are also highly important. Identification and price guide 5th edition 2012 schiffer publishing and features almost 400 images of various types of marbles to help you with marble identfication.

The history of marbles traces back to ancient china and marbles were also found in the great pyramids of egypt. Marbles also have an entire slang language built around them. Companies like christensen peltier glass akro agate and vitro agate. Aggies for example are marbles made of agate while some alleys are made of alabaster.

If you want to start making them part of your collection you should know how to identify vintage marbles. Make offer super rare vintage old world stained glass 3 large marbles 56 rare handmade glass marbles lot yolk amber honey rootbeer butterscotch swirl 162 50. Size quality and design. There are a number of types of non glass marbles that collectors seek out.

Marbles have been made from non glass materials such as wood clay and stone for hundreds if not thousands of years. Vintage marbles are especially popular with collectors though custom marbles sometimes made with rare materials can also command impressive price tags. Watch this video summarizing a book on collecting antique marbles and identifying them by paul baumann. Usually they are machine made or contemporary.

As a result collectors have become interested in finding rare or interesting examples. It can take years to gain enough experience to become an expert in vintage marbles but having just a small interest in marble collecting and old marbles can get a decent collection started. Many collectors obsess over old marbles because they remember playing with them as children. 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.