Online Marble Identification Guide This is an online version of Marbles: Identification and Price Guide. Don't forget, this site will also display on mobile devices (smartphones, iPads, etc.) in a native form.

2014年1月1日 · An online identification guide to hundreds of different types of marbles. This guide follows the categorization in Marbles: Identification and Price Guide.

2014年1月1日 · As a service to the public, the Marble Collectors Society of America provides free marble identification. You can text an image of the marble you want identified to 203-209-7076 or you can email images to [email protected]

2014年1月1日 · By definition, a handmade marble is a marble that was individually made by a craftsman. Non-glass handmade marbles have existed for almost as long as there have been children. During primitive and medieval times, these were rounded stone or clay marbles. This technique continued through the 1800s.

2014年1月1日 · Marble King produced ribboned, patch & ribboned, cat’s-eye, and swirl marbles. Most are collectible today. Marble King appears to have had different machinery that produced at least three separate seam marks.

2014年1月1日 · The marble has two wide opaque white bands, alternating with two thinner translucent blue bands. There are usually two or three transparent pink stripes on each white band. Less common are marbles with a single transparent pink stripe on each white band.

2014年1月1日 · Christensen Agate Company produced a single-stream opaque marble that they called the “World’s Best Moon.” This is a translucent white opalescent marble. The marble is similar in appearance to the Akro Agate Moonie. It can be identified as a Christensen Agate marble by two features.

2014年1月1日 · When viewed ninety degrees around the marble from the seam, many have a stylized “V” pattern to them. These are usually found in the 7/8” size and are called V-patches by collectors. Vitro Agate also produced another type of brushed opaque marble called the “ Parrot ” that is collectible.

2014年1月1日 · Previously (since 1976), the Marble Collectors Society of America had published identification sheets and prices for some machine-made marbles, but the Castle and Peterson book was the first attempt to classify most types of machine-made marbles by manufacturer.

2014年1月1日 · One of the most collectible Peltier Glass marbles is the Picture Marble or comic marble. These are Peltier Peerless patches with a black transfer of one of twelve different King Syndicate comic characters fired on the marble surface. Usually, there …