Collecting Vintage Marbles

Marble collecting is all about displaying specific colored marbles.

Collecting vintage marbles.

Vintage toy marbles one color on opaque white lot of 10 black and white red and white blue and white swirl marbles marble collector cdickinsonvintage from shop cdickinsonvintage. As a result collectors have become interested in finding rare or interesting examples. Once again morphy auctions is auctioning off some terrific marbles and the online catalog photos are exquisite. Over the years increasingly intricate and beautiful marbles have become available.

Many collectors obsess over old marbles because they remember playing with them as children. The history of marbles traces back to ancient china and marbles were also found in the great pyramids of egypt. Size quality and design. Aggies for example are marbles made of agate while some alleys are made of alabaster.

Usually they are machine made or contemporary. 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. Marbles at morphy auctions september 23 24 2016. If you know one you may want to get their help.

Companies like christensen peltier glass akro agate and vitro agate. Marbles also have an entire slang language built around them. This may be a little challenging for new collectors but experienced collectors would be able to tell the difference.