Antique Steely Marbles

Steely made of steel.

Antique steely marbles. Glassy to translucent with streaks or patches of mica ranging from clear to misty. Antique steel marble lot of 12 ball bearings. Steelies are metal marbles normally made for industrial use and are fairly common. Older clay handmade marbles are simple and lack decoration.

Mica antique handmade german marble. A true steely not just a bearing ball was made from a flat piece of steel folded into a sphere and shows a cross where the corners all come together. Black and white navarre marble 1638. Make offer vintage steel marbles lot different sizes steely marbles.

Value depends on glass color. 5 out of 5 stars 2 625 2 625 reviews 5 00. Rare navarre vintage antique glass marbles very high quality. Medium price range for antique 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. This doesn t mean that you need to look for a damaged or broken marble as this would affect its value. Vintage steel marbles steelies or ball bearing various sizes and condition. Prices for these may be less than 50.

Hobbyzeal s collection of marbles reveals some secrets on how to identify antique marbles for your collection. Vintage antique marble leighton glass super rare old. Almost every marble collection contains a few inexpensive steelies. Computer games are a favorite with children today and games like ringer marble arch lagging etc playing with marbles are yet to captivate the minds of these young ones.

Many collectors obsess over old marbles because they remember playing with them as children. Vintage glass marbles set of 10 retro classic americana childhood game hobby pastime jewelry jar filling craft knick knacks trinkets cassandrasnotebook. Favorite add to. Aside from the pontil antique marbles typically have flaws including bubbles.

Affordable glass marbles were first made in the 19th century when a special pair of scissors that could cut molten glass was invented by a german glassblower. Today these vintage marbles are collected rather than played with. 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. 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.

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