Lined Earthenware Marbles

Collecting marbles is a game and the person with the greatest skill is the winner.

Lined earthenware marbles.

This unique zebra colored marble fetched nearly 1700 at auction multiple times more than what most people spend on marbles in their entire lives. May 21 2017 explore james goetz s board china marbles on pinterest. A marble is a small spherical toy often made from glass clay steel plastic or agate these balls vary in size. Identifying rare marbles requires playing with the big boys by reading their books attending marble shows and shopping where you can engage in.

Crockery marbles are a type of clay marble that is made from two or three different colors of clay. Winning at marble collecting requires practice and knowledge and is not child s play. From the late 1500s through the early 1700s salt glazed stoneware marbles were made first by the dutch and then later by the germans. Lot of 6 antique vintage china clay ceramic marbles lined bullseye.

These marbles are made in the same manner as salt glazed stoneware crocks and jugs and may very well have been made by the same makers. 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. Vintage large handmade bennington brown glaze clay shooter 1 25 19 99. There are also some lined crockery that are opaque white with thin blue and or green swirls mixed in.

Earthenware marbles stoneware marbles are a dense fired clay marble with salt glaze on them. Some lined crockery marbles are glazed. Guaranteed by wed jul 22. Black and white navarre marble 1638.

Lined crockery marbles were introduced in the late 1850s in germany. Clay ceramic and stoneware marbles before glass marbles became common antique toy marbles were made from ceramics including clay stoneware and china or porcelain. Ending jul 19 at 3 02pm pdt 3d 5h.