Love Marble King thank you for sharing these amazing marbles. Mike Briggs told me to watch you I'm so happy I did ❤😊 now I am on the lookout for Irish ,Celtic Irish, painted turtles and pixies 🎉
Just beautiful! Thanks for the video! I live in Chattanooga Tennessee which has a rich Civil War history, and I began Metal Detecting here about 20 years ago. I would dig a few marbles every now and then by accident, And although thats fun....I was never that interested enough to start collecting. But about five years ago, I was excavating a protected historical site that has a rich Civil War history and contained many monuments/memorials. The plot was purchased by a company, Who planned to bulldoze the land, and build a series of buildings. Buy some mysterious miracle… I received permission from the project superintendent, game wardens, and the historical society. They gave me free reign to dig and destroy as much as I like! My digging partner and I measured & roped off 15 x 15‘ plots. Just like in professional archaeological dig‘s. We used to only shovels and pics, and excavated each plot by hand down to bedrock. In most cases this was only about 18 inches. And in the worst areas about 3 1/2 feet of overburden and topsoil. We had a wheelbarrow, several tarps, and an entire summer. About four months total before they were bringing in the big dozers and equipment. I’m self-employed, and my digging partner is retired… So we spent about 12 hours per day they’re in the hot sun for four months straight. Sometimes seven days in a row sometimes 20 days in a row. It was the opportunity of a lifetime to Metal Detect place with that much history. It’s been a registered historical site and protected by the police and game warden since before Metal Detector‘s were invented! And it’s in the middle of town so there’s no way anybody had ever been in there. We dug down about 6 inches at a time and then would run our metal detectors over the freshly exposed earth, and used a series of large professional shifters to sift through the rest of the dirt. Because not only was this historical property due to the Civil War and all of the homes built here… But it was in the middle of Chickamauga Georgia where Indian activity had been documented WAY before the Civil War. So we were recovering incredible… Once-in-a-lifetime items every 15 or 20 minutes! Four months straight! It was very exciting but it was also extremely stressful. There hadn’t been any homes built directly on the site since before the Civil War so there wasn’t much trash on the surface… However there is been several homes built right around the area, All the buildings long since torn down....but this was the only area of grass that was bare. So all of the children over the past 100 years gathered right in this very spot that we were excavating. Which is of course why we were finding dozens of marbles per day. I ended up with several hundred from that dig over the four months, all types of beautiful German marbles, and many nice early machine mades. SOOOOOO reason for me to ramble on.... is because that’s how I became interested in collecting. I Already had a basic glass blowing/lamp work set up… I had inherited it from my father. But I upgraded my torches and tanks… And have now been making marbles for the past few years. I really enjoy it, I was first interested in reproducing the old German handmades… but after digging a few beautiful “master” brand marbles, And then digging a Sunburst styles and a sparkler marble IN THE SAME HOLE! Those became my favorite and sent me down a journey of collecting and reproducing machine mades. With sun bursts, sparklers, and masters being my favorite. Although collecting and making marbles is fun… Nothing compares to digging marbles. Since I’ve already been an avid Metal detectorist and bottle digger for about 20 years… Digging marbles is the ultimate treasure hunt! I have searched for places like bottle dumps and homesites where I could dig for marbles… And have been somewhat successful. But I want to find somewhere to dig so that I can find more than one or two marvels every day or two. I’ve seen many folks mention digging for marbles… And I would pay good money to be given access to a place like this for a day or two. I would gladly make a road trip and pay someone if I could go and dig at some of these marble sites. How do people find places to dig for old marbles? Any info you can give me is greatly appreciated. Thanks for the great content!
Hello Stephen - just wanted to drop a note and say THANK YOU for your very informational videos. I'm learning a lot and I'm fascinated by the wide variety of such beautiful art! I've recently purchased a few lots of marbles from Estate Sales and was stoked to find some that have the Uranium Oxide (we did the blacklight test). My kids were thrilled as well. I'm working on identifying them all and seeing which might hold some value. My initial plan was to sell them all for profit but I'm finding it more difficult to let go of the ones that have caught my eye LOL (and so it has begun!). I do wish I would've held on to all the marbles I played with as a child in Germany. I could probably retire a rich woman! Anyways, thanks again and have a wonderful day!
Your videos are awesome! Thank you so much. I watched the Christensen one before and now know my tigers are turkey heads, I was close guessed a duck. This video hopefully helps with some others I have. Thank you
Thank you I think only the one I have may be Christensen and it does look like a turkey head with the skin hanging down. The glass is a bit different color, darker than another group of tigers I have, I'm still researching but strokes slow me down. Thank you
Stephen- I have a white base with thick black stripes, cuts are indicative to Marble King. The stripes fade and get a little grey at the edges. Any idea if they have a specific name/nickname?
Oh Stephen.. my mind is spinning. Thanks for all the great visuals, clean well lit photos and great info... Here’s my thought. You could build a data base where the user put in the colour of the base, patch, pole colour and size and it could give you make photo examples of the specs and makers.. you could charge a membership or per use user fees.
@@stephenbahrmarbles nothing is fool proof.. but even if it narrowed it down to three or four possibilities.. got someone in the right neighbourhood would be helpful and so cool to have a database resource to compare marbles. It will be exciting to see that’s forsure.
@@stephenbahrmarbles would you consider making a video like if you were to go to a garage sale or be given an old jar of miscellaneous marbles what would be your process in cleaning them and identifying them? I know you’re way beyond collecting miscellaneous ones.. but that is pretty much where most new collectors start right?
Hello my name is Ricardo and I enjoy your youtube videos,thank you for sharing your thoughts and knowledge . Do you ever sell any of your marbles ? Or do you have any recommendations on how to get started collecting quality marble's ?
Wow, learning marbles is hard. So many variations and hybrids, and manufacturers. I just wanna be able to buy a mixed collection and be able to group them by age, manufacturer and type.
I have been watching a ton of your videos because I found a gallon of marbles and a lot looks like these here, and I live in West Virginia so it was cool to hear it mentioned in a good way for once. I have a lot of questions so I hope your not the kind of RU-vidr who don't like answering questions 🤔 😆 😂
@@stephenbahrmarbles I have always loved beautiful things, and these videos you make have had some of the most beautiful marbles I have seen. I know that lookalikes are so frustrating, in every hobby. I am a stamp collector, so I know all about the variety game. I am going to keep trying to identify my marbles so if you have any good sources for information, I would appreciate it a lot. Thanks for answering my comment. I may have to send you some pictures or something if you do that type of thing. I have tried to sort them into groups that look the same to me but that's as far as I have made it. My stamps are getting jealous, but they will live! I have been totally taken over by the beauty and story of marbles and their history with my home state. Do you have any good, fair places to buy them? I have no particular type yet, but I know it when I see it lol. Sorry for all the questions and things but I am super excited, I hope that maybe I have something worth holding on to for my daughters, they have started liking the patterns in them. Thank you for real, it is so hard to get good accurate information and I feel like you know your stuff, so I am a new and loyal follower because I am ALWAYS trying to learn something new, and you are a very good teacher, so I hope to have more conversations with you soon.
So if i look at the seams on these marbles, they are the same looking seams in all marble king marbles, except.the swirly/slag? Juat got my marbles back out hoping i can finally understand..
I have a bunch of marbles from marble king, I used to take them from the side of the river when we was fishing when I was a kid, I grew up in Wileyville Wv, I probably have 20 pounds of marbles, and just chunks of marble. But I heard they fenced it off now, so you can’t get them now, I always liked bringing them home, it was always fun. Kinda wish I wouldn’t have sling shot 50 pounds of them, but if you are interested I would sell them, just let me know.
I found a really cool patch marble last night, I was back lighting marbles just to see if I had any really cool looking ones, and I did have a few but one really stuck out, it has 85 to 90% of color coverage, and it's On a moonie base, really cool mib! Lavender stripes, I'll have to figure out how to post pics on here, or if anyone is on fb & in any of the vintage marble pages, let me know which one & I'll post some pics!
That sounds sweet Rusty. I would definitely like to see it . You are welcome to join “Vintage Machine-made Marbles” group on Facebook and post it there. 🔵
