Machine Vs Hand Made Marbles

However with the advent of marble machines in the early 1900 s glass marbles were able to be mass produced at up to 1 million marbles per day in some factories.

Machine vs hand made marbles.

Many collectors obsess over old marbles because they remember playing with them as children. I don t collect them but have acquired these in jars of machine made marbles that i do collect. Machine made glass marbles 1900 1970 clay marbles were the earliest type of marbles made in the united states. Separate marbles into groups of hand made or machine made.

2 rinky dink 16mm handmade art glass orange blue green lattice design marbles. Favorite add to. These articles all dealt with handmade marbles. These are very old handmade marbles.

In the mid 1960s articles began describing marbles as collectibles. Ending oct 4 at 6 30pm pdt 2d 19h. A pontil is a rough mark on a handmade marble which was caused when the marble was cut off of the cane the glass rod they were formed on. As a result far less handmade marbles exist than machine made marbles thereby increasing their value.

This increased the prices of handmade marbles. These sold on ebay. To determine if they were handmade look for the pontil mark to determine how they were created. An influx of new collectors into the hobby created a demand for handmade marbles that had not previously existed.

Shooters 3 4 7 8 jumbos 15 16 up. 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. Hand made art glass alloway dichroic white and aqua 2994 1 23inch. As those prices began to move up at a rapid rate collectors found that they could acquire many beautiful and colorful machine made marbles for the price of a single handmade marble.

Companies like christensen peltier glass akro agate and vitro agate. The marbles listed on this page are all vintage machine made marbles circa 1910 1960. 5 out of 5 stars 46 46 reviews 9 99.