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Antique marbles rare.
Non glass marbles marbles have been made from non glass materials such as wood clay and stone for hundreds if not thousands of years.
This section discusses these types and offers an image identification library.
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Aside from the pontil antique marbles typically have flaws including bubbles.
This doesn t mean that you need to look for a damaged or broken marble as this would affect its value.
Rare marbles have small white figures of people or animals in their center and are very collectible.
Painted sulfide marbles are quite rare most vintage marbles are made from agate granite or glass.
Robert block considers benningtons over two inches in diameter as too rare to value and crockery marbles over two inches as non existent.
Rare antique clay marbles were glazed or decorated and only wealthy aristocratic children got to play with such beauties.
These guidelines will help you identify rare antique marbles and add them to your collection.
Glass marbles are famous among marble collectors today.
Note that unscrupulous dealers have been known to reproduce marbles and sell them as old or antique.
Look for single pontil handmade art glass marbles as these marbles were at the top of the cane and there was only one for each cane that produced several marbles with two pontil marks.
However do not expect to see a perfect looking marble because if you get one it may probably not be vintage.
First produced in germany beginning in 1840 these marbles are known as sulphides and are usually 1 1 14 inches big.
Compare the color of an antique marble to that of a modern one.
As a result collectors have become interested in finding rare or interesting examples.
There are a number of types of non glass marbles that collectors seek out.
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Although marbles can be affordable for all collector budgets avid collectors know that prices can range into the thousands of dollars.
The beautiful colors ribbons and patterns made them popular among children in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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