As I was pulling together some packages for an unboxing I came across these marbles. I have been looking for information about them and striking out - hoping the YT community can help me out here. Anything special in this lot? Thank you!
I have about 10000 marbles...I buy them when I find them at Yard Sales, Estate Sales, Garage Sales and Auction etc The first thing I do is put a UV/Black Light on them. If they Glow Green...I know they are made of Vaseline Glass, which contains Uranium. If they Glow Red/Orange/yellow they are made of Cadmium and Selenium or even Manganese. Those are the older ones so I seperate them by the color they glow, putting the Green ones in their own jar, and the Orange Yellowish ones in another jar....then in other jars I put all the other Marbles together and keep them seperate
I think most of these are very common ones, not that old, I have some from the 1800's, but get yourself a small antique ball jar with the tin lid and they display really well, the ones on top and the larger shooter marbles are called cats eye, the the white ones are milk glass....
Shooters are cateyes. cateyes can have up to ten stripes in them. I think the two red ones are called red brick and they ones i seen sold for forty a pop. The yelow ones should get you a five bucks each. That blue one looks pretty old.Think those multi colored ones are the most expensive.
The thing is. I lost my marbles. Years ago. But the other day. I found some in second hand shop. A marbles tin with a 100. I had to buy them. As it take back to being a kid.
We played marbles in the 80's good old days with the other kids in the neighbourhood.. 👍 the colorful ones are the America Kearney.. they say the marbles with the bubbles inside are the vintage ones
It goes off of quality of the glass mostly, look for flaws in the marbles (which would be because they where handmade and not factory). Look for a pontil If the marbles have it in it they may have more of a chance of being older.(since they where blown by glass the blow pipe typically would of came off in it). I hope I help any this is as much as I know my grandpa left me all of his marble collection and it came with books and pamphlets on marbles.
Thanks Daniel. A few of them have marks from what appear to be machines, based on what I can tell. Others it's hard to tell if they have pontil marks or wear. I do appreciate your comment and information and this is something fun to learn about.
I have my street names of them. The flower biggies are a nice set, those might have some age. The pint size one is a newer cat eye, that gouge in it were in a lot of the 80's marbles that I can remember. The ones that look solid but have swirled parts are a little older, I believe are called icecream swerlies. The icecream swerlies that you had it looked like there's some older ones there. I would look up those and try and find some info on them. There were a few that were in the icecream ones that are clear, the swerls were blue and there was another one that was brown thats a nice ones to and may have some age. There might be a tiger eye in the cat eyes not sure couldn't really tell though. I don't know much about marbles but I did a loot of playing when I was young and those were the older and harder ones to get hope it helps you cool little collection. Hope that you and the family are staying as safe as possible in these time's. Blessings to you and your family in these trying times.
Thanks for that information! Sounds like there's a mix of vintages in there and this guidance is helpful. Much appreciated. Hope you are staying safe too!
@@stackattack Thank you for asking were hanging in there through all this. Ya there's some newer ones in there, but don't count out all of them. it looks like there might be some nice ones with some value on them. The biggies are really cool I always liked those, the flower biggies are older ones I believe not sure how old though. Don't think I ever got one till this day, I still have my marbles somewhere and I used to always try and trade for one back then LOL. They made newer ones but they were cat eyes, the biggie flowers were always hard to find and older. Those icecream swerlies look older to, there might be some nice ones in them. The icecream clearies there's some of those that can be rare check those out. I seen a couple nice blue ones and the brown one might be a older or rarer one. I'm not up on the prices or rareity though, always liked the look of the older ones they put more creativity into them. They were hand made one way to tell if its an older hand made one is to look at how perfectly round they are. Hand made ones will vary in size a little and they won't be perfectly round a majority of the time but not always. Good marble makes got them pretty round even back then. Blessings to you on finding some nice ones in there.
Mostly common nothing special. I collect em and have jars and jars. I pick them up at auctions every chance I get. Have actually been able to make a great flip from time to time and use the proceeds to build up my silver stack.
Thanks for the info. They are a pretty beautiful toy even if not valuable. I am going to keep my eye out for them in the future because I need another thing to hoard :) Thanks for the info on being common marbles.
From reddit: This guide (if you wanted to figure out how old and who made it on your own) is a good one, if you have the time to spare. old.buymarbles.com.buymarbles.com/marblealan/home.html
stackattack you’re welcome. Hopefully you find out you have some cool marbles! I don’t collect or know anything about them, so glad I was able to hopefully help.
