Primarily Petroliana Shop Talk Forums Non-Petro Discussions Non-Petro For Sale, Trade or Wanted Marbles?

Is there any marble collectors out there? some of theses are very very old like 1890s most of them are from the 30-40s where would I find info on all these? And yes they are for sale...

I was in the same boat as you a few years ago.....clueless about vintage marbles! I joined a marble forum and found some members of the forum who lived close to me and luckily they helped me identify ones I had that were of value and I sold them subsequently. Good luck.

Thank you very much for the help.

Marbles are one of the toughest collectibles I've ever done, unlike petro guys collectors of these are "fanatical" hahaha lol.

I have several collector books and they are okay for identification but not much help on value, between handmades, sulphides, clay, akro's, corkscrew's, oxbloods, marblekings, cat eyes, etc, etc, etc, you then have different price levels for color, different color combinations and of course the "condition scale" which is mind boggling, way to serous for me so I gave up & like most things I just started picking up what I liked ! lol

Thanks for the info. I would like to just sell them but have no idea what 2 ask and be fore 2 both parties. And would take for ever 2 sell one at a time on ebay lol. I can get some good pictures if anybody is interested?

Wish I could tell you value but without fondling them I can't really be any help ..... it's hard to tell what you have in the blue jar, I can tell you that the old clay marbles (as cool as they are) don't bring that much, I probably have 3-4 thousand of them in different sizes & colors and I can't get a buck a piece....so I just fill everything with them and enjoy lol ! gum ball machines, glass rolling pins, jars, bottles, etc, etc.

The fuzzy pic above (2nd one) jar next to the robot has some amazing marbles in it, 15 years ago I was able to dig the old Marbleking dump site and dug literally 100k marbles in about a four hour period, one of the funnest times I ever had, I was literally in marble heaven, that jar is full of hybrid bumblebee's, rubybee's, girlscouts, boyscouts, wasps, dragonflies & even 7 or 8 really rare watermelons ! The funny thing is that these were dumped because they didn't meet production standards but are now considered hybrids and are very collectable. Believe it or not, I would say that jar is worth 2-3k in the marble world.

Few more pic's !

Very nice. I like the idea of what you did with all them. Here are some pics of the small glass full.

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I listed the big jar on ebay #191255714468 Thanks for all the help