Collectible Marbles Prices

Collectors must quickly identify a vintage marble recognize its manufacturer spot any flaws and have an in depth knowledge of the market.

Collectible marbles prices.

Marble values and all collectibles antiques have taken a significant downturn in prices in recent years. Simply email a digital image to us so we can give you a more accurate value of the marbles. Watch this video summarizing a book on collecting antique marbles and identifying them by paul baumann. You can often see vintage marbles selling for 50 100 a pop but the costs of the most expensive marbles in the world make that seem like nothing.

They have refused to put an erratum sheet in the book. Grade marbles with guidelines from the marble society of america. Marbles have been valued by collectors for nearly 100 years. Avid collectors regularly study realized.

Mint near mint good and collectible are terms for grading marbles with a plus or minus in each category. Mass production of marbles started only in 1800 s. Most antique marbles are handmade and contain a pontil mark or a rough spot that indicates cutting from a can or glass pontil rod. Prices shown are the completed auctions along with the price estimates from the auction house.

This is from a sampling of items that were auctioned by apple tree auction center. The prices of the most expensive marble are. Vintage marbles are only limited in number which is why they are more expensive. Many collectors obsess over old marbles because they remember playing with them as children.

If you want to start making them part of your collection you should know how to identify vintage marbles. Robert block details this grading in his identification and price guide. 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. Value is only assigned by what another collector pays for a particular piece.

Most modern marbles come machine made and lack a pontil mark. Marbles are part of a wide variety 865 lots of toys trains die cast vehicles and figures that was auctioned live on ebay october 26 2003. Antique and modern marbles differ in a few key ways including appearance quality perfection and manufacturing process. Erratum sheet for marbles.

Identification and price guide 5th edition after i approved the final draft of the book the publisher changed two of the images without my consent. So here s a copy of one i produced.