These guidelines will help you identify rare antique marbles and add them to your collection.
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Glass marbles are famous among marble collectors today.
As a result collectors have become interested in finding rare or interesting examples.
This section discusses these types and offers an image identification library.
Look for single pontil handmade art glass marbles as these marbles were at the top of the cane and there was only one for each cane that produced several marbles with two pontil marks.
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There are a number of types of non glass marbles that collectors seek out.
Rare antique clay marbles were glazed or decorated and only wealthy aristocratic children got to play with such beauties.
Over the years increasingly intricate and beautiful marbles have become available.
Aside from the pontil antique marbles typically have flaws including bubbles.
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The sulfide figure within the marble is painted is the main reason it sold at the price it did.
Non glass marbles marbles have been made from non glass materials such as wood clay and stone for hundreds if not thousands of years.
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Rare marbles have small white figures of people or animals in their center and are very collectible.
However do not expect to see a perfect looking marble because if you get one it may probably not be vintage.
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First produced in germany beginning in 1840 these marbles are known as sulphides and are usually 1 1 14 inches big.
Although marbles can be affordable for all collector budgets avid collectors know that prices can range into the thousands of dollars.
This doesn t mean that you need to look for a damaged or broken marble as this would affect its value.
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Note that unscrupulous dealers have been known to reproduce marbles and sell them as old or antique.
Compare the color of an antique marble to that of a modern one.
Painted sulfide marbles are quite rare most vintage marbles are made from agate granite or glass.
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