Antique Aggie Marbles

Have you ever laid decorative flat backed marbles out on the side table or in a tablescape display and liked what you see but wished they just had a little something extra to really draw the eye.

Antique aggie marbles. Tiger clear with orange yellow stripes. These marble names refer to categories of marbles. Pretty cracked glass marbles. Over the years increasingly intricate and beautiful marbles have become available.

If you want to start making them part of your collection you should know how to identify vintage marbles. Like other types of antique marbles sulphides have been reproduced and faked in large quantities. Agates or aggies by the middle of the nineteenth century marbles made of agate had become so popular that the word aggie a nickname for agate came to be used for all stone marbles. Paneled onion skin ca.

Aggies for example are marbles made of agate while some alleys are made of alabaster. Vintage marbles are only limited in number which is why they are more expensive. Make offer very large 1 7 8 inch swirled leaf design agate. As a result collectors have become interested in finding rare or interesting examples.

Mass production of marbles started only in 1800 s. Marbles also have an entire slang language built around them. Details about antique glass clay marbles very large size aggie akro agate swirl latticino. The late alan basinet talks about collecting antique marbles noting various design styles manufacturers production methods and the regions they came from.

One pound of mixed marbles floor sweepings 16 49 postpaid. 35 00 shipping. A marble is a small spherical toy often made from glass clay steel plastic or agate these balls vary in size. Antique bronze lizard holding large bulls eye agate marble 1920 s very rare.

Many were quarried and ground in germany and then exported to america and other countries. Watch this video summarizing a book on collecting antique marbles and identifying them by paul baumann. Most commonly they are about 13 mm 1 2 in in diameter but they may range from less than 1 mm 1 30 in to over 8 cm 3 in while some art glass marbles for display purposes are over 30 cm 12 in wide marbles can be used for a variety of games called marbles. Shooter any marble but in a bigger size.

Make offer vintage antique marbles lot peltier akro agate cac alley agate. Antique stone marbles rock marbles victorian marbles vintage marbles old marbles aggie 19th century children s games lot 1 sagethymevintage from shop sagethymevintage. Check out these 15 super fun marble crafts that are a blast to make and stunning to look at when they re finished. Swirly is a common marble made out of glass with one swirly color.