Antique Rare Cats Eye Marbles

This unique zebra colored marble fetched nearly 1700 at auction multiple times more than what most people spend on marbles in their entire lives.

Antique rare cats eye marbles.

Marbles are simply little spherical balls used by children and adults to play a range of games. Make offer lot of 25 peltier rare early 3 color cat s eye marbles. Marbles have been valued by collectors for nearly 100 years. Affordable glass marbles were first made in the 19th century when a special pair of scissors that.

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. Update your shipping location 7 s 0 p o n s o a r p a 7 e e d 1 1 u j 1 0 f j 1 1. Make offer lot of 25. Early handmade examples produced in germany are particularly sought after.

Value is only assigned by what another collector pays for a particular piece. Mary s 4 vein cats eye shooter 15 16 stunning cross thru. 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. If you want to start making them part of your collection you should know how to identify vintage marbles.

Many collectors obsess over old marbles because they remember playing with them as children. Marble king hybrid st. Save vintage cat eye marbles rare to get e mail alerts and updates on your ebay feed. Black and white navarre marble 1638.

Great deals on rare marbles. Fast free shipping on many items. Companies like christensen peltier glass akro agate and vitro agate. Rare navarre vintage antique glass marbles very high quality.

Vintage lot of marbles cats eye plus extras 1 2 lbs total wgt 55 total marbles. Following the outbreak of world war i sales of american machine made marbles grew as german exports were banned. Large lot vintage marbles large small cats eye more k21. Vintage marbles are only limited in number which is why they are more expensive.

Look out also for rare colors marbles with aventurine three color nine vane cage cat s eyes and marbles with a colored glass base blue is. Perhaps the best of these are the 3 color frilly vane cat s eyes by vitro agate. Lot of 25 peltier rare early 3 color cat s eye marbles. Antique marbles are collected the world over with rare examples traded for thousands of dollars.

Millions of marbles with. Watch this video summarizing a book on collecting antique marbles and identifying them by paul baumann. Mass production of marbles started only in 1800 s.