Antique Marble Names List With Pictures

Many collectors obsess over old marbles because they remember playing with them as children.

Antique marble names list with pictures.

These marble names refer to categories of marbles. Just becoming familiar with the many kinds of toy marbles available and different marble manufacturers can be an intimidating process. 1 5 8 cobalt and white swirl marble br estimated 300 600 br sold for 130. With a range of colors measurements and patterns marbles can be tough to identify at times.

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. Today these vintage marbles are collected rather than played with. Hobbyzeal s collection of marbles reveals some secrets on how to identify antique marbles for your collection. 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.

If i go in the way back machine seriously who didn t just love rocky and bullwinkle i can remember my article by dinah garcia. Marble day types of marbles. 3 4 black and blue marble br estimated 20 40 br sold for 40. Whether produced by a device or by hand specific types of marbles possess recognizable.

Marbles are part of a wide variety 865 lots of toys trains die cast vehicles and figures that was auctioned live on ebay october 26 2003. Companies like christensen peltier glass akro agate and vitro agate.