Are Old Marbles Worth Anything

Older clay handmade marbles are simple and lack decoration.

Are old marbles worth anything.

Many collectors obsess over old marbles because they remember playing with them as children. Steelies are metal marbles normally made for industrial use and are fairly common. 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 rare akro no.

This unique zebra colored marble fetched nearly 1700 at auction multiple times more than what most people spend on marbles in their entire lives. Simply email a digital image to us so we can give you a more accurate value of the marbles. Vintage marble prices and value often relate to artistic merit. They are cheaper and produced in mass volumes so they can be replaced easily even when chipped or damaged.

In fact a sulphide marble featuring teddy roosevelt sold for 4 500 in a 2011 sale. Prices for these may be less than 50. Solid core swirl marbles made in 1998 surprisingly have a value of 25 to 40 each. Look for marbles with four colors and clear divisions between the colors.

The most common question i am asked is are my marbles worth anything if you have a few marbles you need help identifying or would like an approximate value we are always happy to try and help you out at no cost. Make offer vintage antique marble leighton glass super rare old. If the person selling the marbles is old they are more likely to be old too. No one knows exactly when the first marbles were invented but they date back to the times of the ancient egyptians greeks and romans who played with marbles made of stone clay or polished nuts.

Marbles are simply little spherical balls used by children and adults to play a range of games. Companies like christensen peltier glass akro agate and vitro agate. Find multi colored marbles with clear distinctive lines. A shooter was worth about 10 regular marbles.

Almost every marble collection contains a few inexpensive steelies. 250 complete original box set. Black and white navarre marble 1638. Make offer rare navarre vintage antique glass marbles very high quality.

While modern marbles are also used for playing the glass used is not as high quality as the old ones so they could easily break. Affordable glass marbles were first made in the 19th century when a special pair of scissors that. A collector is more likely to find value in machine made marbles that are opaque too. Sulphide marbles which feature animals and other figures inside clear glass are very rare as they have not been produced for around 100 years rarer still are those featuring human figures.