Marble Collecting

Collecting Marbles
A fun and rewarding hobby!
I love marbles. I started collecting them when I was a kid and have a huge jar of them. I love the colors and the design. Here is some great information about marbles and marble collecting. It's a fun hobby that you can share with your kids. The picture is from my collection.

VINTAGE MARBLES
COLLECTABLE MARBLES
Handmade marbles have become a hot collectable commodity. These marbles are made individually from the mediums of glass, clay, stone, porcelain, metal and even marble or agate. Handmade marbles produced in Germany during the 1800s and early 1900s are perhaps the most collected and treasured marbles today. With the invention of the marble making machine in the US about 1905 - 1910 and the outbreak of WWI in 1914 the Germain handmade marbles were virtually replaced by mass produced glass sphere...

Collecting Marbles - The Joy of Marbles
Marble Collecting
Marbles were originally made by hand. Stone or ivory Marbles can be fashioned by grinding. Clay, pottery, ceramic, or porcelain Marbles can be made by rolling the material into a ball, and then letting dry, or firing, and then can be left natural, painted, or glazed. Glass Marbles can be fashioned through the production of glass rods which are stacked together to form the desired pattern, cutting the rod into marble-sized pieces using marble scissors, and rounding the still-maleable glass wik...