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Antique stone marbles.
Among the more readily available are tigereye onyx goldstone malachite snowflake obsidian and quartz.
This article discusses the beauty and the magic of marbles noting their popularity their uses the materials they are made from and where collectors can find them.
Affordable glass marbles were first made in the 19th century when a special pair of scissors that.
Both countries produced marbles from these materials into the first quarter of the twentieth century.
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The design on the stone marbles was a result of the impurities or sand chert clay silt iron oxides.
A number of other mineral spheres are available.
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Showing examples and identification of the major american glass marble maker pieces.
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Though they weren t as appealing as glass marbles they weren t as rough as the clay ones either.
Antique marbles of stone pottery and glass.
Most of these are modern although there are some antique handcut tigereye marbles.
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.
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These marble names refer to categories of marbles.
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Marbles are simply little spherical balls used by children and adults to play a range of games.
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No one knows exactly when the first marbles were invented but they date back to the times of the ancient egyptians greeks and romans who played with marbles made of stone clay or polished nuts.
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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.
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