10 Most Valuable Marbles

Find handmade marbles that contain swirls or opaque marbles that are machine made from a specific company.

10 most valuable marbles.

This section discusses these types and offers an image identification library. This example sold for 3 12 million in 2016 breaking the previous record of 2 8 million set with a different wagner card in 2007. Winning at marble collecting requires practice and knowledge and is not child s play. I just found my marble collection on a trip back to see family in kansas.

Agate marbles were chiefly produced in germany and the us and are among the most valuable on the market. Make offer 56 rare handmade glass marbles lot yolk amber honey rootbeer butterscotch swirl. Black and white navarre marble 1638. Collecting marbles is a game and the person with the greatest skill is the winner.

Companies like christensen peltier glass akro agate and vitro agate. There are a number of types of non glass marbles that collectors seek out. Marbles are simply little spherical balls used by children and adults to play a range of games. Marbles have been made from non glass materials such as wood clay and stone for hundreds if not thousands of years.

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. The fine dust kicked up by the grinding machines used in the production process often gave the workers tuberculosis killing them young. Affordable glass marbles were first made in the 19th century when a special pair of scissors that. With only nine known to exist honus wagner examples in excellent condition like this one are extremely rare and valuable.

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. The most valuable baseball card of all time dates to the early 1900s. Look for large marbles and peewees because these usually are more valuable and often in better condition than playing marbles of 9 16 inch size.

Look for specific colors or styles. 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.