Machine Vs Hand Made Marbles

The earliest magazine and newspaper articles discussing marbles appeared in the 1940s.

Machine vs hand made marbles.

Handmade art glass marbles machine made player black clay marbles from 1 2 5 8 game marbles lot 440 marbles for games and crafts after9marbles. The marbles listed on this page are all vintage machine made marbles circa 1910 1960. I don t collect them but have acquired these in jars of machine made marbles that i do collect. 50pcs glass marbles handmade toys balls for pinball machine home decoration 16mm.

To determine if they were handmade look for the pontil mark to determine how they were created. Hand made art glass alloway dichroic white and aqua 2994 1 23inch. 2 rinky dink 16mm handmade art glass orange blue green lattice design marbles. These articles all dealt with handmade marbles.

Many collectors obsess over old marbles because they remember playing with them as children. 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. As those prices began to move up at a rapid rate collectors found that they could acquire many beautiful and colorful machine made marbles for the price of a single handmade marble. Shooters 3 4 7 8 jumbos 15 16 up.

In the mid 1960s articles began describing marbles as collectibles. These sold on ebay. These are very old handmade marbles. A pontil is a rough mark on a handmade marble which was caused when the marble was cut off of the cane the glass rod they were formed on.

This increased the prices of handmade marbles. Ending oct 4 at 6 30pm pdt 2d 19h. Companies like christensen peltier glass akro agate and vitro agate. As a result far less handmade marbles exist than machine made marbles thereby increasing their value.

Machine made glass marbles 1900 1970 clay marbles were the earliest type of marbles made in the united states. Favorite add to. Separate marbles into groups of hand made or machine made.