Identifying Handmade Marbles

Mass production of marbles started only in 1800 s.

Identifying handmade marbles.

Hand made non glass marbles. Identifying rare marbles requires playing with the big boys by reading their books attending marble shows and shopping where you can engage in. If you are looking for a particular style of marble feel free to email me as i just might have one for sale. Collecting marbles is a game and the person with the greatest skill is the winner.

Both of these books classified handmade marbles to almost the complete exclusion of machine made marbles. I sell marbles regularly at marble shows around the country as well as on ebay. The earliest guide to marble collecting was morrison and terrison s marbles identification and price guide published in 1968 followed by baumann s collecting antique marbles published in 1970. Hand made glass marbles.

If you want to start making them part of your collection you should know how to identify vintage marbles. Non glass marbles marbles have been made from non glass materials such as wood clay and stone for hundreds if not thousands of years. Block with over 500 pictures of different marbles is an excellent guide to refer to. 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.

Marbles are simply little spherical balls used by children and adults to play a range of games. Watch this video summarizing a book on collecting antique marbles and identifying them by paul baumann. If the base glass is black and blue it is a rare find. Small updates and changes to pictures new names for marbles etc.

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Click on the links to go to each page. Radiant and aesthetic in appearance with patterns materializing from different countries each one of these handmade marbles were skillfully made. The marble collectors handbook by robert s. Winning at marble collecting requires practice and knowledge and is not child s play.

Clambroth marbles from germany for instance are milk glass marbles with exterior swirls dating from the late 1800s. Christensen and son company. Great deals on rare marbles.