Rare Sulphide Marbles
They are extremely rare.
Rare sulphide marbles. These are usually coins numerals on disks or pocket watches. Vintage marbles various types. Sulphide marbles can bring you several thousand dollars in the marketplace. Great deals on antique sulfide marbles.
These marbles will have a pontil mark left by the glass blower s rod on one side and are extremely scarce. Marbles have been made from non glass materials such as wood clay and stone for hundreds if not thousands of years. This section discusses these types and offers an image identification library. Sulphide handmade this type is for many collectors the holy grail.
No one knows exactly when the first marbles were invented but they date back to the times of the ancient egyptians greeks and romans who played with marbles made of stone clay or polished nuts. There are a number of types of non glass marbles that collectors seek out. Sulphides or figure marbles are large translucent marbles manufactured in germany from the mid 19th century up until the 1930s usually 1 1 2 or more in size they always feature a figure encased in the center which early collectors mistakenly thought was made from sulfur. Affordable glass marbles were first made in the 19th century when a special pair of scissors that.
In fact a sulphide marble featuring teddy roosevelt sold for 4 500 in a 2011 sale. There is a series of sulphide marbles that contain the individual numerals 0 to 9. There are also sulphide marbles with figures of inanimate objects in them. Sulphide marbles which feature animals and other figures inside clear glass are very rare as they have not been produced for around 100 years rarer still are those featuring human figures.
Marbles are simply little spherical balls used by children and adults to play a range of games. Antique sulfide marble with chicken. Although it is possible some sulphide marbles may have been made in the united states during the victorian era none were made in any volume. End of the day marbles were made with leftover glass at the end of the manufacturing day.
Watch 11241m vintage german handmade sulphide marble 1 45 inches. Fast free shipping on many items. Painted sulfide marbles are quite rare most vintage. German high volume marble production dates from the 1850s to around wwi.
Sulfide marble with quail bird not polished estate. Although the desig n on this marble may seem a bit weathered from the photo sulfide marbles actually look quite brilliant in person.