Antique Cats Eye Marble

Favorite add to 30 vintage cat eye marble that includes 1 large shooter marble.

Antique cats eye marble.

Judith miller in buy keep or sell. 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. Many collectors obsess over old marbles because they remember playing with them as children. Lot of 500 cats eye marbles 6 lbs glass 5 8 16mm bulk wholesale new toy.

Make offer marble king hybrid st. Suggests looking for solitaire boards avoiding marbles such as cat s eyes that were mass produced after the 1960s and look for the original packaging. Ending friday at 7 44pm pdt 5d 18h. Companies like christensen peltier glass akro agate and vitro agate.

The rarer the marble the more valuable it is likely to be. Vintage cage and cats eye marble assortment whateversells4me. They were cheaper and mass produced. Vintage cat s eye marbles typically possess a clear glass base with no greenish tint and feature a blue red white yellow or green stripe.

Cat s eye marbles were not popular in america until japanese marble manufacturers introduced them in large quantities following the end of wwii. Look for older or vintage cat s eye. Vitro agate hybrid cat s eye pulled seam vintage marble 9 16 nm hawkeyespicks. 5 out of 5 stars 248 248 reviews 15 00.

Vintage marble prices and value often relate to artistic merit. 5 out of. As a rule of thumb vintage american cat s eyes tend to have very clear glass. The older bubbly master marble translucent 1 color cat s and later 11 16 3 vein master glass and gladding vitro cage cat s eyes most common in the late 1960s to early 1980s are among the easiest american made cat s eyes to identify.

Note that unscrupulous dealers have been known to reproduce marbles and sell them as old or antique. A collector is more likely to find value in machine made marbles that are opaque too. Mary s 4 vein cats eye shooter 15 16 stunning cross thru vintage clear glass marbles lot 7lbs around 200pcs blue cat s eye 13 16ths 39 95.