Identifying Vintage Marbles

Look for the pontil.

Identifying vintage marbles.

These vintage marbles were manufactured using a glassblowing technique inducing characteristics like bubbles and pontils. Crockery marbles most crockery or stoneware marbles were brown with a blue glaze. The marbles are perfectly safe to handle though because the uranium has been encased. They are still inexpensive and within reach of the average marble collector.

Patches style marbles are generally opaque. Most vintage marbles were made by hand through the process called glassblowing. Value is only assigned by what another collector pays for a particular piece. There are a number of types of non glass marbles that collectors seek out.

Some vintage marbles will glow under black light because they were made with a small quantity of uranium. They are called benningtons because their glaze resembles that of the brown and blue glazed bennington ware pottery produced in bennington vermont during the nineteenth century. However some vintage glass marbles could be from the transition period when machines were introduced in marble making. Top 10 most expensive marbles 2018 gazette review.

This section discusses these types and offers an image identification library. Antique commies are still fairly common. Collectors must quickly identify a vintage marble recognize its manufacturer spot any flaws and have an in depth knowledge of the market. Vintage gl marbles what are they worth coppa not intended.

This guide is meant to be a simple and quick way to identify and learn about vintage marbles. Marbles have been made from non glass materials such as wood clay and stone for hundreds if not thousands of years. It is one of the most prized vintage marbles on the collector market. Antique marbles identification vaseline gl contains small.

Marbles have been valued by collectors for nearly 100 years. During this procedure a stick is used where the marble is attached. Here are some ways to determine if a marble is vintage or not. It is not meant to be the definitive guide to every type of marble ever produced but i will try and answer some of the most common questions i am frequently asked as well as show examples of some of the most collectible marbles.

This could help you determine if the item is authentic in order to get your money s worth. They feature three to four colors in a rough quilt like pattern. Can you help me identify these old marbles. An online reference guide for marble collectors.

Identify marbles manufactured before 1950 by the vitro agate company by their patchwork of colors. Avid collectors regularly study realized. Certain examples of these miniature pieces of art have since become very valuable but unless you know exactly what you re looking out for it can be difficult to tell if you ve just found the big one.