Antique Stone Marbles

These vintage marbles were manufactured using a glassblowing technique inducing characteristics like bubbles and pontils.

Antique stone marbles.

Marbles are simply little spherical balls used by children and adults to play a range of games. Though they weren t as appealing as glass marbles they weren t as rough as the clay ones either. Vintage antique marble leighton glass super rare old. 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.

Make offer rare navarre vintage antique glass marbles very high quality. Showing examples and identification of the major american glass marble maker pieces. 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. Ever wondered what life in the 18th and 17th century must have been like.

Antique marbles of stone pottery and glass. Both countries produced marbles from these materials into the first quarter of the twentieth century. The design on the stone marbles was a result of the impurities or sand chert clay silt iron oxides. 3 large natural stone toy marbles hand made yard games nearly 1 5 150 00 5 00 shipping.

Rare navarre vintage antique glass marbles very high quality. Make offer estate collection of 17 antique hand made natural stone marbles. These marble names refer to categories of marbles. Antique marble floors and walls.

Guided tour and discussion of my antique machine made marble collection. A number of other mineral spheres are available. Affordable glass marbles were first made in the 19th century when a special pair of scissors that. Watson april 3rd 2009.

Among the more readily available are tigereye onyx goldstone malachite snowflake obsidian and quartz. 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. Companies like christensen peltier glass akro agate and vitro agate. Very old handmade painted stone marbles.

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. Make offer very old handmade painted stone marbles.