Christensen Iridescent Marbles

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

Christensen iridescent marbles. Christensen marbles have shear marks or cut lines on them from the marble making process. I will let you know if i need to see additional pictures of a certain marble or marbles. Most antique marbles are handmade and contain a pontil mark or a rough spot that indicates cutting from a can or glass pontil rod. If you want to start making them part of your collection you should know how to identify vintage marbles.

Make offer 56 rare handmade glass marbles lot yolk amber honey rootbeer butterscotch swirl rare large 2 130 inch green sulphide look air trap 3 marble w free ship. Recognize valuable guinea marbles from the christensen agate company by their brilliant rare colors and specific pattern. Martin christensen patented the first marble making machine. A group shot is fine also.

More items from ebay. Vintage marbles are only limited in number which is why they are more expensive. 5 out of 5 stars 16 16 reviews 120 00. Unfollow purple marbles to stop getting updates on your ebay feed.

Akro marbles five color transparent popeye corkscrew. Christensen son company operated in akron ohio from1904 until 1917. Three mark matthews marbles excellent. Sammy s handmade green aventurine gold guinea 1 80 97.

Most modern marbles come machine made and lack a pontil mark. Group shots are preferred. 5 out of 5 stars 1 311 1 311 reviews. Christensen machines did not have automatic feed systems.

Watch this video summarizing a book on collecting antique marbles and identifying them by paul baumann. Net bag of 25 asteroid glass mega marbles 24 players and 1 shooter iridescent slate blue w blue frit rare. The guinea pattern is a tiger stripe featuring three or more colors. 1 5 8 marble jody fine open core rainbow latticino.

If you have a large amount of marbles save yourself time by sorting your marbles into groups of 30 or 40. 2 christensen 9 marbles burnsmarketplace. During the 1990s vacor also produced a series of hand made marbles which were distributed through toys r us. If you have just one or a few marbles you can send individual shots of each marble if you like.

Furthermore either type of glass may be regular or iridescent. Overall marbles from this company are rather dull though some new styles like the michelangelo are actually quite striking. Mass production of marbles started only in 1800 s.