Toy Marble Names List With Pictures

Over 500 million people around the world collect marbles although official estimates come in at around 400 million.

Toy marble names list with pictures.

Smoking punch cigar advertising figure. In the late 1930s kokomo purchased a marble making machine from peltier glass company and used it to produce marbles made from the glass rejected in their rolling process. Ceramic as in the trademarked dyke s american agates registered to samuel c. A name adopted by early american marble manufacturers to describe any and all classes types and styles of marbles including.

Agates or aggies by the middle of the nineteenth century marbles made of agate had become so popular that the word aggie a nickname for agate came to be used for all stone marbles. 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. Funny height challenge pictures. Many were quarried and ground in germany and then exported to america and other countries.

The company produces rolled glass which is used in windows lamps etc. Cat s eye superman and onionskin. Marbles images marble games marble toys marble machine marble art glass marbles glass paperweights glass ball vintage toys. Alley or real made of marble or alabaster alley is short for alabaster streaked with wavy or other patterns with exotic names like corkscrew spiral snake ribbon onyx swirl bumblebee and butterfly ade strands of opaque white and color making lemon ade lime ade orange ade etc.

Used to make marbles highly desired by players as in bulls eye agate 2. Non glass marbles marbles have been made from non glass materials such as wood clay and stone for hundreds if not thousands of years. Also glass toy marbles as in akro agates registered. Noun a type of fibrous quarts called chalcedony.

If i go in the way back machine seriously who didn t just love rocky and bullwinkle. The kokomo opalescent glass company was founded in 1888 in kokomo indiana and continues to operate today. Along with superb american toys and folk art the top selling toy was a spectacular circa 1885 william demuth co. Indian mag lite marble.

Hobbyzeal s collection of marbles reveals some secrets on how to identify antique marbles for your collection. Computer games are a favorite with children today and games like ringer marble arch lagging etc playing with marbles are yet to captivate the minds of these young ones. Some enthusiasts achieve success identifying toy marbles on the web because fellow enthusiasts have created websites with photos and company information to assist in marble identification. Indeed all the items in the question are kinds of marbles the technical names of which are used accurately only by a knowledgeable few but the items themselves recognized worldwide.

Today these vintage marbles are collected rather than played with. Deep cobalt blue with strong outer bands of yellow blue white purple green and. Condition was king across the board in morphy s 2 6 million spring toy auction.