Agate Marbles Made From Real Agate

The marbles were made by mixing two or more glass colors in a single furnace.

Agate marbles made from real agate.

A marble is a small spherical toy often made from glass clay steel plastic or agate these balls vary in size. Swirl toy marbles pre 1970 time period. 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. Christensen and son company.

Fast free shipping on many items. Because each color was a different density they did not melt together but rather created strata. 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. 29 5 8 inch akro agate red orange and blue.

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. Agate hand made toy marbles pre 1970. Christensen agate produced swirls in a wide variety of different patterns and color combinations. Great deals on agate pre 1970 time period toy marbles.

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. 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. The company originally repackaged marbles bought from the m f. They were a favorite of many marble players especially as shooters.

Agate is a colored variety of quartz that was hand ground into marbles. Fast free shipping on many items. The most common christensen agate company marbles are swirls. 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.

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. 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. Agate hand made toy marbles pre 1970. Great deals on machine made toy marbles christensen agate.

This is because agates are denser than other marbles. Make offer marbles lot of 25 agate natural stone mineral marble orbs jasper shooter size 1 marbles.