Collecting Antique Marbles

This section discusses these types and offers an image identification library.

Collecting antique marbles.

The online marble guide and the marble gallery are based on my book marbles. 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. Vintage marbles are only limited in number which is why they are more expensive. Knowing the value of vintage collectible marbles often is a key component when buying marbles because even though you may be.

The marble faq has basic information on the history of marbles and marble collecting. Aesthetics are also highly important. Shop for and learn about vintage and antique marbles. As a result collectors have become interested in finding rare or interesting examples.

Over the years increasingly intricate and beautiful marbles have become available. Usually they are machine made or contemporary. If you want to start making them part of your collection you should know how to identify vintage marbles. Today s collectible marbles are from the late 1800s and newer.

Companies like christensen peltier glass akro agate and vitro agate. 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. The history of marbles traces back to ancient china and marbles were also found in the great pyramids of egypt. 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.

There are a number of types of non glass marbles that collectors seek out. Size quality and design. 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.

Vintage marbles are especially popular with collectors though custom marbles sometimes made with rare materials can also command impressive price tags. Aggies for example are marbles made of agate while some alleys are made of alabaster. Antique glass marbles are highly collectible from handmade examples by german glassmakers of the. Many collectors obsess over old marbles because they remember playing with them as children.