marbles

[zanes_antiques]

Those are super number nines. I picked out the yellow slag when I was trading because of the 9 swirl in it. I'm not the greatest at identifying but I can usually tell the better from the more common. After hanging around my dad(he's the real marble collector) I've picked up enough to sort through boxes and "Cherry-Pick".
Please feel free to post as many marble pics as possible and I'll see if I can tell what they are. You can quiz me. Here's another pic of a frame full.

Would you call that one tft posted in the second and third pics an oxblood?

 

[Road Dog]

I would say not.Look like Akro Aces. Hard to tell from pics with Ox unless pics are supr close and clear. Sometimes moniter settings can make colors look of too. Here are some Akro Lemonade Ox.

 

[zanes_antiques]

Those ones are so out of this world I couldn't even miss them! wow!!! I' will have to show my old man this thread now. Sweet marbles!!!

 

[Road Dog]

Could you post diff. views of these two? Closer if you can.

 

[zanes_antiques]

I'll get better pics today of all the marbles and from different sides also if you like.I'm headed to bed. I'm sure my wife thinks it's about time. I'll be sure to post them by this evening. Do me a favor and get some more pics of your best. I'd appreciate it.

 

[Road Dog]

Land of Marbles has lots of good pics in the Killer Marble Section.
http://www.landofmarbles.com/phpbb/

 

[epgorge]

Thanks for the link roaddog. I have about a thousand marbles and have no idea what any of them are. I will now study. They go back at least 40 years when I won most them. I use to have this thing or ball bearings. I guess they aren't worth much, but I still like them. i use to trad up to five marbles for one of them.

Joel

 

[Road Dog]

Post a few at a time and folks over there will do their best to help I.D.

 

[stonemason]

Any idea what the clay like and dark glass marbles were actually made from, and where? A few years ago I was metal detecting an old farm house down in the dirt cellar. I got a very faint but clear reading which was a few of these really old crude looking marbles.I still have some of the dark glass ones and they still register with my old detector. Maybe a high iron content?

 

[logueb]

I must say that I am totaly amazed. I had no idea that marbles could come in such a wide array of colors and designs. Are these special made by artisans? Surely you would not place these on the ground and play a game of marbles with those gems. I remember well those little nicks that came on marbles from one striking one another during a game of marbles. You guys ever played marbles? Had your mom fuss about wearing the knees out of those jeans from too much marble playing? Aaaaaahh! Back in the days when life was so much simpler.