TOP 10 Highest Selling Vintage & Antique Marbles on eBay | March 2023
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- Join us as we dive into the mesmerizing world of vintage and antique marbles, exploring the top 10 highest-selling mibs on eBay during March 2023!
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So glad I found your channel! Thanks for the videos. I'll be a regular to your videos and do appreciate the work you put in in order to make these videos possible.
Thank you for the kind words! I intend to keep up with this eBay series monthly and additional videos on occasion.
my Gpa worked for Cambridge Glass in ohio., i use to hear stories about him using the marbles in the sling shots on their breaks to shoot at other glass. we use to hunt bottles and stuff on the old hill sides.
I got a tin marbles can. With 100 in it
We're do u go to check wat type of marbles you got n how much there worth?
The 'bumblebee's we call Tigers, i have a few. But a lot of the white with red swirl are just chinese checkers.
sold
I'm German and i had a big Bucket full of those handmade Marbles as a Kid. If i just would have known that these are worth that much Mula today, i wouldn't have shot them all around the Woods with my Slingshot. 😅
Maybe that Bucket could be worth 3000 - 5000 today 😳
Edit : I remember there was a Marble that looked like Charlie Brown's Head
“Good grief” 😭
I have the same thought when thinking back to all of the holo Pokémon cards I put in my bike’s spokes to make it go VROOOOOM haha
Unsure what exactly that Charlie Brown mib could’ve been, but the unique patterns can be some of the funnest marbles to collect - almost like permanent clouds captured in a jar!
I have a Peltier Peerless Patch with a pattern like a Shaka (🤙), it sits on my desk 24/7.
How do you identify vintage marbles?
From studying the knowledge secured and passed down by more veteran collectors! I would suggest starting with a marble book from Stanley Block and/or browsing Stephen Bahr's UA-cam videos!
Once you've spent countless hours staring at and discussing marbles, their ambiguity starts to disappear 😄
Is there such a thing as wood or rock marbles. Recently inherited what appears to be a rather old leather bag full of small balls about the size of marbles, but not sure what they are.
Both actually! And I know there are some collectors with petrified wood marbles - the best of both worlds! haha
For many years marbles were called "aggies" because they were formed from agates. They have very distinct bands like you've probably seen in geodes, and some of them were dyed different colors. If you find some agate marbles, get a very bright light to shine close to the surface - you may notice very small, flat spots all over which would indicate that it was ground spherical by hand! They're especially neat when the agate was centered well with symmetrical patterns.
By now just about every rock/mineral variety that can be shaped into a sphere has been, but agates were the first. I will note that I once met a collector with a wonderful sphere of feldspar which exhibited natural UV fluorescence, never seen anything like it before or since!
Wood marbles are less noteworthy and were typically made by woodworkers on a lathe for a fun project. I don't know of any notable producers of wood marbles, although maybe they exist.
If you send some photos to metamibs@gmail.com I'd be happy to take a look :)
Are they fishing corks?
How old must a marble be to be considered vintage?
i got a bumblebee
😂 you haven't done the most expensive damaged marbles sold on eBay yet. I keep hearing over and over again how true collectors do not buy damaged marbles. I completely disagree with this because I think every beginning collector always picks up placeholders and I always believed high-end damage marbles have a value in my opinion. Just a thought that would fit right in on your channel. Double ingot sparkler inspiration 😂
If they’re damaged they’re worthless.
I have a lot of marbles.
At least no one can accuse you of losing them!
How do you know if your marble’s are worth money, can I send you a picture?
It all comes down to rarity and condition.
There are plenty of price guide books to give a ballpark, although some can be outdated. But at the end of the day, a marble is only worth what someone is willing to pay.
I'm very much a novice, but would be happy to give a quick and rough appraisal if you email me photos metamibs@gmail.com
If you want more robust and experienced opinions, I would suggest posting to one of the marble forums I have linked on my site: www.metamibs.com/resources#marble-forums