Antique Lutz Marbles

Antique and modern marbles differ in a few key ways including appearance quality perfection and manufacturing process.

Antique lutz marbles.

Once again morphy auctions is auctioning off some terrific marbles and the online catalog photos are exquisite. Most antique marbles are handmade and contain a pontil mark or a rough spot that indicates cutting from a can or glass pontil rod. Lutz style marbles are particularly dazzling and very collectible especially antique handmades. Companies like christensen peltier glass akro agate and vitro agate.

Many collectors obsess over old marbles because they remember playing with them as children. Save antique lutz marbles to get e mail alerts and updates on your ebay feed. Shop for and learn about vintage and antique marbles. Lutz is finely ground copper flakes or goldstone.

Make offer rare navarre vintage antique glass marbles very high quality. Highlights include a rare christensen agate company cobalt based guinea with only red and white colors. Eddie seese super rare halloween white black lutz hexasphere marble 1 5 8. Vintage antique marble leighton glass super rare old.

Antique glass marbles are highly collectible from handmade examples by german glassmakers of the 1800s to vintage marbles made by machine in the early 20th century by u s. Marbles are simply little spherical balls used by children and adults to play a range of games. Vintage rare handmade lutz marbles for sale. A banded lutz is a marble with a single colored base glass and two sets of two bands alternating with two lutz bands.

Affordable glass marbles were first made in the 19th century when a special pair of scissors that. W s h p o. Update your shipping location 7 s 0 p o n s o a r p a 7 e e d 1 1 u j 1 0 f j 1 1. 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.

The lutz bands are usually edged by opaque white strands. Please contact us at. Marbles at morphy auctions september 23 24 2016. Most modern marbles come machine made and lack a pontil mark.

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. Description and images of lutz marbles.