Vintage Marble Balls

This unique vintage marble was estimated to fetch 6 000 at auction and it ended up selling for triple that amount after a bidding war.

Vintage marble balls. 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. Vintage rare kokomo marbles. Oct 9 2019 explore sunny taylor s board marbles antique and vintage followed by 222 people on pinterest.

Antique cane cut glass marbles though some speculate that glass spheres produced near ancient rome were used as marbles the earliest glass toy marbles were made in germany in the middle of the nineteenth century. One 60s vintage german glass marble 15 to 16mm aqua blue white swirl marble small glass ball vintage marble in perfect condition atvintage. 2 boulders 35mm pink fairy marbles glass ball jellyfish iridescent giant large. Affordable glass marbles were first made in the 19th century when a special pair of scissors that.

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In 1846 a glassworker in the town of lausche invented the marbelschere or marble scissors a tool that rounded a marble in one step. Winning at marble collecting requires practice and knowledge and is not child s play. 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. 4 00 6d 19h 4 00 shipping.

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