Bumbo bumboozer or bowler are names applied to very large marbles of any description.
Rare pictures and names of marbles.
The different types of pure calcareous include travertine saccharoids spatic and alabaster marbles.
Companies like christensen peltier glass akro agate and vitro agate.
Identifying rare marbles requires playing with the big boys by reading their books attending marble shows and shopping where you can engage in.
Radiant and aesthetic in appearance with patterns materializing from different countries each one of these handmade marbles were skillfully made.
Marbles have been made from non glass materials such as wood clay and stone for hundreds if not thousands of years.
Over the years increasingly intricate and beautiful marbles have become available.
Many collectors obsess over old marbles because they remember playing with them as children.
Winning at marble collecting requires practice and knowledge and is not child s play.
This type of marble is easily identifiable by its color and it is called serpentine after the siliceous stone by the same name.
Crockery marbles most crockery or stoneware marbles were brown with a blue glaze.
A peawee is the name used for any very small marble.
As a result collectors have become interested in finding rare or interesting examples.
This rock is frequently mistaken for the carrara marble owing to the striking similarities in the color and veining of these two types of marbles.
There are a number of types of non glass marbles that collectors seek out.
Antique glass marbles are highly collectible from handmade examples by german glassmakers of the 1800s to vintage marbles made by machine in the early 20th century by u s.
Antique commies are still fairly common.
Aggies for example are marbles made of agate while some alleys are made of alabaster.
They are still inexpensive and within reach of the average marble collector.
Marbles also have an entire slang language built around them.
Pure calcareous marbles are usually composed of large crystals and don t have any fossils inside.
The marble collectors handbook by robert s.
Is a general name applied in many parts of the country to all glass marbles including opals glimmers bloods rubies etc.
This section discusses these types and offers an image identification library.
Block with over 500 pictures of different marbles is an excellent guide to refer to.
They are called benningtons because their glaze resembles that of the brown and blue glazed bennington ware pottery produced in bennington vermont during the nineteenth century.
Collecting marbles is a game and the person with the greatest skill is the winner.
