Antique Stone Marbles

This article discusses the beauty and the magic of marbles noting their popularity their uses the materials they are made from and where collectors can find them.

Antique stone marbles. The design on the stone marbles was a result of the impurities or sand chert clay silt iron oxides. A new era of art science discovery and empire building was upon humanity. 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. Very old handmade painted stone marbles.

Antique marbles of stone pottery and glass. These marble names refer to categories of marbles. Rare navarre vintage antique glass marbles very high quality. Most of these are modern although there are some antique handcut tigereye marbles.

These vintage marbles were manufactured using a glassblowing technique inducing characteristics like bubbles and pontils. Make offer very old handmade painted stone marbles. Both countries produced marbles from these materials into the first quarter of the twentieth century. Among the more readily available are tigereye onyx goldstone malachite snowflake obsidian and quartz.

Make offer estate collection of 17 antique hand made natural stone marbles. Though they weren t as appealing as glass marbles they weren t as rough as the clay ones either. 3 large natural stone toy marbles hand made yard games nearly 1 5 150 00 5 00 shipping. Ever wondered what life in the 18th and 17th century must have been like.

Marbles are simply little spherical balls used by children and adults to play a range of games. 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. Affordable glass marbles were first made in the 19th century when a special pair of scissors that. Showing examples and identification of the major american glass marble maker pieces.

Companies like christensen peltier glass akro agate and vitro agate. Many were quarried and ground in germany and then exported to america and other countries. A number of other mineral spheres are available. Guided tour and discussion of my antique machine made marble collection.

Watson april 3rd 2009. Make offer rare navarre vintage antique glass marbles very high quality.