Antique Pontil Mark On Marbles

Antique and modern marbles differ in a few key ways including appearance quality perfection and manufacturing process.

Antique pontil mark on marbles.

These marks are called pontil marks and were created when the glassmaker cut the glass rod from which the marble was made. Single pontil navarre marbles for sale transitional marbles for sale vintage navarre marbles for sale mf christenson transition marbles for sale melted pontil marbles for sale. Make offer rare navarre vintage antique. Rare marbles have small white figures of people or animals in their center and are very collectible.

Look at the center design. Rare joseph s coat onionskin german swirl handmade antique vintage pontil marble. A pontil mark is a variable size and type of scar or roughage left on the base of a bottle by a pontil rod a typical pontil rod aka ponty punty or punte was a long 4 6 feet rod which was securely attached to the base of the just blown hot bottle trowbridge 1870. Ending friday at 6 00pm pdt 4d 21h.

Most antique marbles are handmade and contain a pontil mark or a rough spot that indicates cutting from a can or glass pontil rod. 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. Affordable glass marbles were first made in the 19th century when a special pair of scissors that. Amongst this type are the earliest german marbles the earliest american made marbles as well as marbles from japan and china the term transitional applies to most slag type marbles that have one pontil.

Transitional is the term used to collectively describe a variety of slag type marbles that have pontils or shear marks on them. Examine the pontil mark under a microscope if possible. Examine the pontil mark under a microscope if possible. Collect matching pairs or twins.

Rare huge 1 5 16 german handmade. Marbles are simply little spherical balls used by children and adults to play a range of games. Rare navarre vintage antique glass marbles very high quality. This will allow you to better see how rough the texture is and see if the mark appears to be on the surface which is characteristic of handmade marbles or deeper down which may indicate a machine made marble.

We have over 30 000 vintage marbles for sale that are not shown here so if you are looking for something you don t see here we probably have it but haven t posted it yet. Extremely smooth marks may indicate a melted pontil where the area was melted after creation to hide the original pontil mark. 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. This will allow you to better see how rough the texture is and see if the mark appears to be on the surface which is characteristic of handmade marbles or deeper down which may indicate a machine made marble.