Some enthusiasts achieve success identifying toy marbles on the web because fellow enthusiasts have created websites with photos and company information to assist in marble identification.
Toy marble names list with pictures.
Condition was king across the board in morphy s 2 6 million spring toy auction.
Along with superb american toys and folk art the top selling toy was a spectacular circa 1885 william demuth co.
Ceramic as in the trademarked dyke s american agates registered to samuel c.
Used to make marbles highly desired by players as in bulls eye agate 2.
Deep cobalt blue with strong outer bands of yellow blue white purple green and.
The company produces rolled glass which is used in windows lamps etc.
Hobbyzeal s collection of marbles reveals some secrets on how to identify antique marbles for your collection.
Smoking punch cigar advertising figure.
Noun a type of fibrous quarts called chalcedony.
Indeed all the items in the question are kinds of marbles the technical names of which are used accurately only by a knowledgeable few but the items themselves recognized worldwide.
With the hundreds of marbles that are distinct in color size and patterns three common toy marbles stand out.
Visit this section for a brief history of handmade marble manufacture and to see an image library to help you identify various types of handmade marbles.
Agates or aggies by the middle of the nineteenth century marbles made of agate had become so popular that the word aggie a nickname for agate came to be used for all stone marbles.
The kokomo opalescent glass company was founded in 1888 in kokomo indiana and continues to operate today.
In the late 1930s kokomo purchased a marble making machine from peltier glass company and used it to produce marbles made from the glass rejected in their rolling process.
Today these vintage marbles are collected rather than played with.
Many were quarried and ground in germany and then exported to america and other countries.
Cat s eye superman and onionskin.
Marble day types of marbles.
If i go in the way back machine seriously who didn t just love rocky and bullwinkle.
A name adopted by early american marble manufacturers to describe any and all classes types and styles of marbles including.
Marbles images marble games marble toys marble machine marble art glass marbles glass paperweights glass ball vintage toys.
Also glass toy marbles as in akro agates registered.
Non glass marbles marbles have been made from non glass materials such as wood clay and stone for hundreds if not thousands of years.
Indian mag lite marble.
These marble names refer to categories of marbles.
Alley or real made of marble or alabaster alley is short for alabaster streaked with wavy or other patterns with exotic names like corkscrew spiral snake ribbon onyx swirl bumblebee and butterfly ade strands of opaque white and color making lemon ade lime ade orange ade etc.