Handmade German marbles

[cheese]

Here are a few. Sorry the one pic is blurry.

 

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[surf]

Wow, cheese!

Beauties, every one. Mo'betta photos, please, sez moi. Backstories are in order, too. Wow!

 

[cheese]

That's a nice set you posted there Surf! Are those yours? Super nice!

I already packed mine back away. I may pull them back out and re-take pictures later. Hopefully soon I will have a big curio cabinet and I can unpack my collection to put it on display. I don't have any interesting back story on these. Some I purchased through the years, others were given to me as gifts at Christmas or birthdays.

 

[surf]

Hey cheese,

Nah, those aren't mine. They were an auction lot: Original Boxes of German Handmade Marbles.

Mine were all dug, and are pretty beat:

 

[gunsil]

Here's a few more!! I dug my first ones doing gardening work as a child about 10-11 years old in 1957-58. Then I went snooping around some old fallen in rotted houses in my neighborhood and found a bunch more in my teens, including a hundred or so in cigar boxes and tins in three abandoned buildings. About twenty came from my grandparent's house where my mother remembered leaving them as a child. I started bottle digging in earnest at 13 and my mother would drive me around to all the antique stores to sell my bottles. If the owner didn't wish to pay cash for any bottles, but had the old handmade marbles I'd often trade bottles for marbles. I found more excavating a huge bottle dump in the woods. Bought a few too, over the years but haven't bought one in probably thirty years or more now. They are still among my favorite things I own today. There are so many patterns and colors and they are amazing little examples of glass makers' art. I was in the last generation around here where we played marbles at school and yards. I always wondered as a child why the marbles we had were no where as pretty as those my parents and grandparents played with. Of course the machine made marbles were round, and rolled a lot better than the handmade ones with their pontilled ends.

 

[surf]

Whoa gunsil,

There's some beauties! If you are feeling extra generous and have the time, I'd love to see more photos. It looks like you have a couple large sulfides in the mix. I've always wanted to dig one, but as of yet…

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[cheese]

Wow Wow Wowser! That's one nice collection of swirls!! I love the lutz. Some really super looking onionskins there too!

 

[gunsil]

Here ya go Surf!! Having a hard time getting my camera to focus, even on macro. There are some nice clam broths, a couple more Lutzes although the gold doesn't show well, a couple of indians, the large slag swirl is rare. The sulfide rooster is a beater I dug, the horse is fine but that was a trade on bottles. Maybe if I try to photograph them singly I could get better focus but that would take all day.

 

[Gnome Punter]

Here is a pile I sold on ebay over the summer



Some others I sold this summer




here is a jelly core I had Rich (Santa's Bling) repair for me.


I had rich repair severla that were beat so bad they looked like balls of shipped clouds

But...I always gotta toss out my favs...MARBLE KINGS !!



I love my Marble kings !