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So, you can take the Guide wherever you go! Handmade Marbles. The earliest manufactured marbles were made by hand. Visit this section for a brief history of handmade marble manufacture and to see an image library to help you identify various types of handmade marbles. Non-Glass Marbles.
Need a Marble Identified? As a service to the public, the Marble Collectors Society of America provides free marble identification. You can text an image of the marble you want identified to 203-209-7076 or you can email images to bob@marblecollecting.com. Please only send one marble at a time.
There are six basic types of pontil: Regular, Ground, Melted, Pinpoint, Fold, Pinch, and Crease. The first three are handmade marbles, the last three are machine-made marbles. Regular Pontil Transitionals have a pontil on one end that looks just like the pontil on a handmade marble. This type is fairly rare.
The most common and easily recognizable Akro Agate marble is the Corkscrew. This is a variegated-stream marble whose design is unique to Akro Agate. Two or more streams of colored glass were allowed to enter through the marble-making machine’s shearing mechanism at the same time.
A close examination of M.F. Christensen opaque marbles reveals a faint “9” on the top pole. Generally, you can find them in green (“Imperial Jade”), light blue (“Persian Turquoise”), and yellow. There were very small number of lavender opaques produced.
By definition, a handmade marble is a marble that was individually made by a craftsman. Non-glass handmade marbles have existed for almost as long as there have been children. During primitive and medieval times, these were rounded stone or clay marbles. This technique continued through the 1800s.
An online guide on how to identify condition problems in marbles, and how to apply a grade to a marble for condition. This section includes images, as well as video clips, to aid you in learning how to grade marbles. It also includes a short video on how to measure marbles.
The marble is similar in appearance to the Akro Agate Moonie. It can be identified as a Christensen Agate marble by two features. First, the Christensen Agate version tends to be brighter than the Akro Agate version and have a slightly bluish tinge to it.
Some collectors use a 10x loupe to look for damage when grading marble. It is impossible to find any marble that does not have some mark on it under a 10x loupe. Every marble has rubbed against something. You will never find a handmade or machine made marble that can grade as a 10.
Click a marble below to see a full-screen image. An Onionskin Lutz is a marble that has an end of day onionskin core with lutz bands and/or lutz sprinkled on the core. The base color of the core is usually white, with blue, green or red streaks.