Most antique marbles are handmade and contain a pontil mark or a rough spot that indicates cutting from a can or glass pontil rod.
Where to sell vintage marbles.
Most modern marbles come machine made and lack a pontil mark.
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.
Venetian swirl marbles sell for less at an average price of 200 to 300.
The hobby of marble collecting is certainly no exception and as the popularity of the hobby soars so does the number of people trying to make money from producing and or selling reproductions.
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They are cheaper and produced in mass volumes so they can be replaced easily even when chipped or damaged.
Note that unscrupulous dealers have been known to reproduce marbles and sell them as old or antique.
Fake and reproduction packaging.
If the person selling the marbles is old they are more likely to be old too.
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Suggests looking for solitaire boards avoiding marbles such as cat s eyes that were mass produced after the 1960s and look for the original packaging.
Agate swirls were made from 1927 to 1929 and can be valued as high as 600.
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Many collectors obsess over old marbles because they remember playing with them as children.
Antique and modern marbles differ in a few key ways including appearance quality perfection and manufacturing process.
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.
We also buy marble related items such as original boxes tins bags postcards photos artwork games and.
Reproduction machine made marbles.