In fact a sulphide marble featuring teddy roosevelt sold for 4 500 in a 2011 sale.
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Lutz handmade another very valuable variety is the lutz marble.
Onionskin blizzard marble 9 775.
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The most common antique marbles material is metal.
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Over the years increasingly intricate and beautiful marbles have become available.
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It was one of the most expensive marbles sold during that auction there were five other marbles that sold for over 5k and many others that sold for more.
Most antique marbles are handmade and contain a pontil mark or a rough spot that indicates cutting from a can or glass pontil rod.
Most modern marbles come machine made and lack a pontil mark.
Antique and modern marbles differ in a few key ways including appearance quality perfection and manufacturing process.
Marbles also have an entire slang language built around them.
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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.
If you are looking for a particular style of marble feel free to email me as i just might have one for sale.
There are 750 antique marbles for sale on etsy and they cost 29 55 on average.
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Sulphide marbles which feature animals and other figures inside clear glass are very rare as they have not been produced for around 100 years rarer still are those featuring human figures.
Shooter blue ribbon swirl marble vintage very rare.
As a result collectors have become interested in finding rare or interesting examples.
Aggies for example are marbles made of agate while some alleys are made of alabaster.