Christensen Guinea Marbles

The guinea pattern is a tiger stripe featuring three or more colors.

Christensen guinea marbles. The rare and beautiful guinea marbles even individually can fetch hundreds of dollars each. Guineas are always transparent based. Vintage marbles christensen agate uv guinea. Packaging shipping and insurance on items will be available to successful bidders.

Save christensen agate guinea marbles to get e mail alerts and updates on your ebay feed. Greatly reduced prices for marbles with id numbers marked in green yellow. For machine made marbles in their original packaging this set is the holy grail for most marble collectors. Besides the coveted speckled guinea marbles christensen agate made beautiful swirl marbles that sometimes flame with vivid sharp layers.

Click on the image of your favorite for an enlarged view and detailed description. Christensen agate produced swirls in a wide variety of different patterns and color combinations. Because each color was a different density they did not melt together but rather created strata. They only produced a limited line of marbles most famously the imitation onyx style.

But they are credited with creating the first fully automated machine made marble process in 1902. Christensen guinea circa 1930s guineas are arguably the most recognizable marble made by christensen agate. It is one of the most prized vintage marbles on the collector market. Antique handmade glass marbles collection part 3 various types lutz indians opaques mica.

Welcome to your online resource for glass marbles marble shows books clubs and collectors. Recognize valuable guinea marbles from the christensen agate company by their brilliant rare colors and specific pattern. Applicable charges will be applied. There are few machine made marbles that are as completely swathed in awe and reverence by collectors as the christensen world s best guinea which was named it has been said because it reminded workers at the factory of the colors of the guinea hens which roamed the company grounds.

Made in the 1930s the blue and amber based guineas pictured measure 9 16. S x p o i n 1 s o c r 7 e b f u d 9 c o. Packingshipping it is the bidder s responsibility to take shipping and handling costs into consideration when bidding on items. It is an original 25 ct.

The most common christensen agate company marbles are swirls. 7 s 0 p o n s o a r p a 7 e e d 1 1 u j 1 0 f j 1 1. Outstanding christensen striped guinea marble. The marbles were made by mixing two or more glass colors in a single furnace.