Best marble find! This is no joke

[ZumbroKid]

I sent the photo of this to Jeff this summer. I've decided to post it here and not in the marble section. Reason for this is the value of this in an undamaged condition. I still believe it has value to a collector. This is a old vintage Lutz hand made marble. It should date back to the 1800's. Size is almost 1 1/2 inches across! I do not see many for sale at that size. Found at old site, next door to the gold coin i found. Oldest coins in this yard were an 1865 nickle 3 cent piece and an 1867 Indian Head cent. In the photos is an Indian Head cent for size comparision. This was a surface eye ball find, after a rain the night before.

 

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[Gypsy Heart]

That is a cool find Free....dontcha hate it when you lose your marbles

 

[pgill]

Nice find..... Would love to know how they get those patterns inside the marbles

Peter
South Africa

 

[The Seeker]

That is a nice marble ,I found a couple digging .I guess some of them are worth a few bucks.....Seeker

 

[Wetgreenie]

I bet some poor kid really missed that one for a long time. Too cool

 

[rjnail]

used to play marbles, when i was in school, geee thats was 46 years ago,,,,

 

[civilman1]

That's pretty cool Free!...one marble is a pretty boring game,gotta be more.LOL and HH

 

[trk5capt]

My Wife said I Lost some of those. trk5capt...

 

[ZumbroKid]

Unchipped it is worth a couple of hundred i believe. I found many marbles, after researching them i discover the lutz ribbon hand made ones from the late 1800's were the ones i needed to find. I found a couple smaller ones. This is the big daddy of the lutz marbles. I just about flipped when i saw it laying there. It was mostly still buried and low and behold it was intact. I got more excited over this than the gold coin. In fact it was about 40-50 feet from where i found the gold coin.

 

[treasures4me2find]

Yes what a great looking marble. It is a great looking find.

Ken

 

[weldermark]

very cool find Free, I love old marbles.


HH Mark

 

[stoney56]

The Lutz's are nice-I just keep hoping to find a Sulfide at some point. There the ones that have silver looking animals inside.

 

[aaron7]

Can it be fixed? it's really nice looking!

 

[ZumbroKid]

Maybe these could be restored? But then i always been told never ever clean a found marble!

 

[Diggincoinz]

Wow! Guess I'd better hang on to those that I find. Found a few here and there while detecting, not that large though. Now, I wonder what I did with them? I'm with the rest of you and losing my marbels too! :P

 

[Mona Lisa]

That's a beaut, Shepete. I bet that was some kid's prize marble.

 

[stoney56]

Can it be fixed? it's really nice looking!

Maybe these could be restored? But then i always been told never ever clean a found marble!?

It was my understanding that it can be polished out but to do so would take some care to keep it round and also a knowledgeable dealer would probably kike it to compare the size w/factory specs.
It's still a very nice addition to any collection.

 

[Glenns5900]

An old timer once told me how to become a treasure hunter.

Take a handful of marbles and put them in your mouth.
Each day you take one out.








When you have lost all your marbles you are a treasure hunter.

Maybe I shouldn't have taken his advise.

 

[SASQUASH]

WOW that is a big lutz's. I had a collection of over 30,000,00 marbles for sail on E-bay that was a friend of mines collection of over 60 years we where asking $5,999.00. It did not sell but it got a few folks out to look at them one guy payed $1,000 for 50 marbles that he had picked out. In all this collection there was not one Lutz's they are hard to find. I have over a 1000 marbles that is in my Own collection & I don't have any Lutz's ether. I wonder if you could polish it some how in a rock tumbler that would keep it even. You would have to use a real fine polish on the last go around to get it that shiny for glass. Hay nice find there Pete keep it up or I will. It is finally raining hear in SO. CAL. the ground will be nice to dig I will be THing in the mourning at a old V.F.W just up the road from are ranch. well thats if no work comes in before then it is slow this time of the year for painters. more time to hunt. but I need some how to feed my habit. Happy New Year from SAS<><

 

[ZumbroKid]

You could try to polish it. It is on ebay right now. I'm cleaning house thru ebay. Won't the wife be surprised how i clean house. Paid to clean my own house!