American Bottle Marbles

Well basically although marbles were meant to used as a toy some like occasional bottles were only brought out once or twice and thrown in a drawer.

American bottle marbles.

2015 american bottle auctions. Elias grenier patented the first marble making scissors in 1849. In 1870 hiram codd created codd soda bottles in england to preserve carbonation. Required fields are marked name email website.

Most commonly they are about 13 mm 1 2 in in diameter but they may range from less than 1 mm 1 30 in to over 8 cm 3 in while some art glass marbles for display purposes are over 30 cm 12 in wide marbles can be used for a variety of games called marbles. 26 comments read more. A marble is a small spherical toy often made from glass clay steel plastic or agate these balls vary in size. Handmade clay agate and other stone marbles from germany date to around 1850 1900.

Home 2019 galleries 2019 marbles. We buy consign and sell antique bottles in our online auction including old whiskeys bitters sodas mineral waters beers inks flasks medicines historical flasks fruit and pickle jars utility barber bottles gin dutch onions nippers and more. Others like some of the very large 2 onionskin s or joseph s coat marbles were made by a master glassblower as a gift something that was too big to play with but rather to be displayed. These marbles come generally in the standard 5 8 and and are considerably harder to find in the larger shooter size.

See more ideas about bottle antiques antique bottle. Discovering a miller shooter in the larger size with adventurine is quite a prize for the peltier collector in today s marble collecting world. View calendar featured bottle. 2015 american bottle auctions web design by hareline graphics inc.

Your email address will not be published. Posted on may 3 2019 by abastaff in 2019 galleries 2019 marbles. The earliest north american marbles were found in ancient earthen mounds. Leave a reply cancel reply.

Posted on september 27 2012 by abastaff in marbles photo gallery. Home photo gallery marbles. 2015 american bottle auctions. I come by here every few days jeff looking for more beautiful glass in every shape marbles are a passion as are bottles i find i search for bottles now as much as vintage marbles the hunt is the key perhaps your website never ceases to amaze me looking forward to auction 60 i believe you were at 49 when i first found you i will be back and ready for the next one jeff take care.

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