Agate Marbles Made From Real Agate

White based examples often go unnoticed because these swirls can easily be mistaken for the swirls of later companies but the color based ones are very easy to recognize.

Agate marbles made from real agate.

They were a favorite of many marble players especially as shooters. These boxes are red offset by uncolored areas in which allies and marbles are printed on three of the faces with a cut out on the fourth which reveals the marbles inside. Fast free shipping on many items. Agate is a colored variety of quartz that was hand ground into marbles.

Because each color was a different density they did not melt together but rather created strata. There is strong evidence that vitro agate actually produced these marbles and in fact the colors and the seams do resemble those of that company. Christensen agate produced swirls in a wide variety of different patterns and color combinations. The marbles were made by mixing two or more glass colors in a single furnace.

A marble is a small spherical toy often made from glass clay steel plastic or agate these balls vary in size. Great deals on machine made toy marbles christensen agate. Most commonly they are about 13 mm 1 2 in in diameter but they may range from less than 1 mm 1 30 in to over 8 cm 3 in while some art glass marbles for display purposes are over 30 cm 12 in wide marbles can be used for a variety of games called marbles. Fast free shipping on many items.

Marbles lot of 25 agate natural stone mineral marble orbs jasper shooter size 1 77 00 7 50 shipping. Other patches by akro agate tri color patches that are practically indistinguishable from those of vitro agate as the colors and seam patterns are the same. The company originally repackaged marbles bought from the m f. Agate hand made toy marbles pre 1970.

Make offer marbles lot of 25 agate natural stone mineral marble orbs jasper shooter size 1 marbles. Great deals on agate pre 1970 time period toy marbles. Christensen agate swirls are among the most collectible machine made marbles not only because they are often so beautiful and colorful but also because they are fairly rare. Perhaps the companies used similar machinery.

By the time the company had moved to clarksburg it was operating its own marble making machinery and producing marbles throughout most of the history of the company akro agate was the largest manufacturer of marbles in the united states. This made it easier to knock an opponent s marble out of the ring hand cut agates are generally found in carnelian or banded varieties. Swirl toy marbles pre 1970 time period. This is because agates are denser than other marbles.

The only alley agate packaging of which i m aware is a small 2 1 8 x13 16 x13 16 cardboard box in which three marbles were placed. Agate hand made toy marbles pre 1970.