Antique Rare Cats Eye Marbles

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Antique rare cats eye marbles. Black and white navarre marble 1638. Save vintage cat eye marbles rare to get e mail alerts and updates on your ebay feed. Millions of marbles with. Update your shipping location 7 s 0 p o n s o a r p a 7 e e d 1 1 u j 1 0 f j 1 1.

Make offer lot of 25. Early handmade examples produced in germany are particularly sought after. 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. Perhaps the best of these are the 3 color frilly vane cat s eyes by 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. Marbles have been valued by collectors for nearly 100 years. If you want to start making them part of your collection you should know how to identify vintage marbles. Watch this video summarizing a book on collecting antique marbles and identifying them by paul baumann.

Other collectible cat s eye marbles are hybrid cat s eyes where there is more than one color on a single vane. Marbles are simply little spherical balls used by children and adults to play a range of games. Avid collectors regularly study realized. Look out also for rare colors marbles with aventurine three color nine vane cage cat s eyes and marbles with a colored glass base blue is.

Make offer lot of 25 peltier rare early 3 color cat s eye marbles. This unique zebra colored marble fetched nearly 1700 at auction multiple times more than what most people spend on marbles in their entire lives. Collectors must quickly identify a vintage marble recognize its manufacturer spot any flaws and have an in depth knowledge of the market. Mary s 4 vein cats eye shooter 15 16 stunning cross thru.

Great deals on rare marbles. Mass production of marbles started only in 1800 s. Vintage marbles are only limited in number which is why they are more expensive. Value is only assigned by what another collector pays for a particular piece.

Antique marbles are collected the world over with rare examples traded for thousands of dollars. Large lot vintage marbles large small cats eye more k21. Affordable glass marbles were first made in the 19th century when a special pair of scissors that. Lot of 25 peltier rare early 3 color cat s eye marbles.

Many collectors obsess over old marbles because they remember playing with them as children. Companies like christensen peltier glass akro agate and vitro agate. Following the outbreak of world war i sales of american machine made marbles grew as german exports were banned.