Rare Machine Made Marbles

Most commonly they are about 13 mm 1 2 in in diameter but they may range from less than 1 mm 1 30 in to over 8 cm 3 in while some art glass marbles for display purposes are over 30 cm 12 in wide marbles can be used for a variety of games called marbles.

Rare machine made marbles. Clay marbles were the earliest type of marbles made in the united states. As a result collectors have become interested in finding rare or interesting examples. Since these early german handmade glass marbles were made as kid s toys from 1850 to around the 1st world war. Aggies for example are marbles made of agate while some alleys are made of alabaster.

Most marbles however are manufactured in mexico and china. The beauty of their history. Over the years increasingly intricate and beautiful marbles have become available. Machine made marbles 1980 current.

The mechanized production of glass marbles was developed in the united states in the first quarter of the 20th century. 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. German handmade marbles machine made marbles. Machine production began in the us in the early 1900s.

Below are examples of some new 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. Many examples of original packaging still exist making it easy to identify the different types and. The rise of the american marble manufacturing industry mirrors in many ways the ascent of the united states as global economic force.

Companies like christensen peltier glass akro agate and vitro agate. Marbles also have an entire slang language built around them. The marbles listed on this page are all vintage machine made marbles circa 1910 1960. As you might expect handmade examples are rarer.

Christensen son christensen agate akro agate and peltier glass. A marble is a small spherical toy often made from glass clay steel plastic or agate these balls vary in size. These are made from glass and were mainly produced in europe germany specifically from the 1830s up until the start of the first world war. We can split marbles into two varieties handmade and machine made.

A few marble companies remain in the united states today including marble king and jabo inc. The golden age of machine made marbles is dominated by marbles from such companies as m f.