Antique Lutz Marbles

No one knows exactly when the first marbles were invented but they date back to the times of the ancient egyptians greeks and romans who played with marbles made of stone clay or polished nuts.

Antique lutz marbles.

A banded lutz is a marble with a single colored base glass and two sets of two bands alternating with two lutz bands. Most antique marbles are handmade and contain a pontil mark or a rough spot that indicates cutting from a can or glass pontil rod. Highlights include a rare christensen agate company cobalt based guinea with only red and white colors. W s h p o.

Description and images of lutz marbles. Lutz style marbles are particularly dazzling and very collectible especially antique handmades. Most modern marbles come machine made and lack a pontil mark. Shop for and learn about vintage and antique marbles.

The lutz bands are usually edged by opaque white strands. Vintage rare handmade lutz marbles for sale. Marbles are simply little spherical balls used by children and adults to play a range of games. Marbles at morphy auctions september 23 24 2016.

We have over 30 000 vintage marbles for sale that are not shown here so if you are looking for something you don t see here we probably have it but haven t posted it yet. Please contact us at. Save antique lutz marbles to get e mail alerts and updates on your ebay feed. Lutz is finely ground copper flakes or goldstone.

Companies like christensen peltier glass akro agate and vitro agate. Many collectors obsess over old marbles because they remember playing with them as children. Lutz marbles for sale antique lutz marbles for sale collectible lutz marbles for sale old lutz marbles for sale. Once again morphy auctions is auctioning off some terrific marbles and the online catalog photos are exquisite.

Vintage antique marble leighton glass super rare old. Eddie seese super rare halloween white black lutz hexasphere marble 1 5 8. Antique and modern marbles differ in a few key ways including appearance quality perfection and manufacturing process. Some contemporary glass artists also produce stunning lutz marbles which unlike most antique lutz marbles are always in wet mint condition and truly showcase the beauty of lutz phpbay lutz 771 phpbay.

Antique glass marbles are highly collectible from handmade examples by german glassmakers of the. Affordable glass marbles were first made in the 19th century when a special pair of scissors that.