Vintage Aggie Marbles

Vintage marbles agate peltier christensen lot 5 beautiful.

Vintage aggie marbles.

Make offer vintage marbles agate peltier christensen lot 5 beautiful. Over the years increasingly intricate and beautiful marbles have become available. This may be a little challenging for new collectors but experienced collectors would be able to tell the difference. Many collectors obsess over old marbles because they remember playing with them as children.

4 5 out of 5 stars 15 15 reviews 45 00 free shipping favorite add to. Painted sulfide marbles are quite rare most vintage marbles are made from agate granite or glass. The golden age of machine made marbles is dominated by marbles from such companies as m f. Aggies for example are marbles made of agate while some alleys are made of alabaster.

If you know one you may want to get their help. The sulfide figure within the marble is painted is the main reason it sold at the price it did. Group of seven ravenswood alley agate and cac marbles. Many were quarried and ground in germany and then exported to america and other countries.

Vintage marbles are typically more attractive and brighter than modern ones because they were individually made compared to the new ones that were made in high quantities. Machine made marbles the mechanized production of glass marbles was developed in the united states in the first quarter of the 20th century. Antique stone marbles rock marbles victorian marbles vintage marbles old marbles aggie 19th century children s games lot 1 sagethymevintage. 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.

60 00 1h 36m 7 00 shipping. Antique bronze lizard holding large bulls eye agate marble 1920 s very rare. Companies like christensen peltier glass akro agate and vitro agate. 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.

3 99 3d 16h 4 50 shipping. Christensen son christensen agate akro agate and peltier glass. As a result collectors have become interested in finding rare or interesting examples. Vintage marbles large variety 50 ct shooter 2 uranium 2 agate cat eye iridescent.