What makes these marbles the superman marbles? Red, yellow and blue color combination of course.
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 Scarce Box of 25 JABO GHOST SUPERMAN 5 8 Marbles Marble $9.99 (2 Bids) |
 AKRO AGATE VINTAGE HYBRID SUPERMAN CORKSCREW MARBLE RARE MARBLE $9.99 (1 Bid) |
 Lot of 25 Serpent 5 8 Diameter Opaque Swirl Glass Marbles Superman Colors mb $1.99 |
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 Old Corksrew Marble 13 16 Akro Superman $4.99 |
 Dave McCullough Superman 2003 Marble Run Black eyed Pea $8.99 |
 MARBLES JABO HILLBILLY MAGIC 2003 SUPERMAN RUN EARLY CLASSICS SWIRLS $5.99 |
 KEITH BAKER MARBLE BIG END OF DAY CRYSTAL SUBMARINE ONIONSKIN CLOUD LUTZ STAND $20.00 (1 Bid) |
 RARE Mint CREAM of the CROP Peltier Submarine Whisps LK $9.99 |
 KEITH BAKER HANDMADE MARBLE WILD THING STRANGE ATTRACTOR SUBMARINE RIBBON AGATE $14.00 Buy It Now for only: $20.00 Buy It Now | Bid now |
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 Antique Handmade Sulfide Marble German 13 Sulphide Fish Rare Aquatic animal $56.51 (12 Bids) |
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 1 3 4 Marble John Gilvey Yellow Fantail Fish Marble $150.00 Buy It Now for only: $150.00 Buy It Now |
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The Christensen Agate Company was started in 1925 in Payne, Ohio...
What really set The Christensen Agate Company apart from any other marble company that ever existed was the use of exotic glass colors.
Keep a Close Eye on Guinea Marbles.
 CAC CHRISTENSEN AGATE OPAQUE DIAPER FOLD LAVENDER VINTAGE MARBLES MARBLE GAME $35.00 |
 CAC CHRISTENSEN AGATE OPAQUE Turquoise BRICK VINTAGE MARBLES MARBLE GREEN SWIRL $5.00 (1 Bid) |
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 Marbles VINTAGE CAC CHRISTENSEN AGATE STRIPED OPAQUE MARBLE 11 16 $29.99 (1 Bid) |
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 Christensen Agate Co Awesome Turkey Pattern Marble Glass Cullet examples $6.45 |
Marbles have always been popular toys. However, what some may not know is that glass marbles weren’t always the norm. Early marbles, which are highly sought after by antique toy collectors, were actually made from clay and were often referred to as Bennington marbles.
Bennington marbles are those that were glazed and made of crockery or stoneware.
Bennington Marbles - The Antiques Bible
Bennington marbles are a type of glazed clay marble. They are not very dense. The marbles are fired clay with a salt glaze on them. Benningtons are readily identifiable by both their coloring and the little 'eyes' that they have on them. These are spots where the marbles were touching each other while they were being fired, resulting in those spots being uncolored and unglazed. The term 'bennington' is actually a misnomer. There is no evidence that they were ever made in Bennington, Vermont, or that they have any lineage to the Bennington pottery that they resemble and from which they get their name. It appears that all Bennington marbles were imported from Germany.
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 21 ANTIQUE MARBLES LUTZ LATTICINO CORE BENNINGTON $50.99 (11 Bids) |
 13 16 INCH BLUE BENNINGTON MARBLE $10.04 |
 13 16 INCH BROWN BENNINGTON MARBLEWITH EYES $10.04 |
 5 8 INCH BROWN BENNINGTON MARBLEWITH EYES $10.04 |
 1 4 INCH PEEWEE BROWN BENNINGTON MARBLEWITH EYES $10.04 |
We are not talking about marbles made in China. China marbles are made of glazed or unglazed porcelain with various patterns similar to alley and agate marbles. Marbles of china that have blue marbling are called Croton alley or Jasper marbles.
 x x FANTASTIC VINTAGE HANDMADE 11 16 PAINTED CHINA MARBLE GREAT FIND $9.99 (1 Bid) |
 Marbles NM+ 13 16 Glazed China $0.99 (2 Bids) |
 BIG 5 HANDPAINTED ANTIQUE CHINA MARBLES $9.99 |
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 contemporary handmade glazed china marbles nice size $9.95 |
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 Antique Vintage Large China Clay Marbles Line Crockery Carpet Ball Bullseye $19.99 |
 NG old german hand made china marble $17.12 (3 Bids) |
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Collecting is great!
You still want to have marbles to play with though. Take a break from collecting and play with marbles.
Here are a few you would not worry about protecting and preserving:
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Vitro Marbles are the marbles manufactured by Vitro Agate Company.
The name of the company was derived from that of Vitrolite. Vitro comes from the Latin and means “in glass”. The Vitrolite Company made heavyweight architectural glass. Fisher’s initial plan involved using Vitrolite cullet to make the marbles and Vitro’s early marble style names were plays on the Vitrolite name: Clear-Lites, Du-Lites and Tri-Lites.
The Vitro Agate company operated 1932 - 1993. The company made mostly Patches, Cats-Eyes. Parrots are one of the most interesting and colorful marbles it produced.
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 6 ANTIQUE VITRO CAT EYES 10 CENT MARBLES IN PACKAGE $9.99 (1 Bid) |
 Marbles Mint 37 64 Vitro Agate Easter Egg $12.27 (6 Bids) |
 Marbles NM 27 32 Vitro Agate Bumblebee $8.48 (5 Bids) |
 Marbles Mint 39 64 Vitro Agate Cosmic Rainbow $1.25 (2 Bids) |
 Marbles NM 5 8 Vitro Agate Tri Lite $0.99 |
 Marbles Vitro Tiger Eye Box New Box $29.22 (6 Bids) |
 One Cool Wet Mint 5 8 Vitro Agate Hybrid Cateye Cedarman7 Vintage Marbles $1.54 (2 Bids) |
 ONE MINT 5 8 VITRO AGATE $3.00 |
 MARBLESVINTAGE MACHINEMADE 100+ AKRO PELTS MASTER VITRO JABO MARBLE KING $0.99 (1 Bid) |
 MARBLESVINTAGE MACHINEMADE 100+ AKRO PELTS MASTER VITRO JABO MARBLE KING $0.99 |
 VINTAGE MARBLES VITRO CONQUEROR MARLBES Lots of colors $5.99 |
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Raw Materials
Modern marbles are made from a combination of sand, soda lime, silica, and several other ingredients added for pigment or decoration. These other additives range from aluminum hydrate to zinc oxide. The primary component, sand, is essentially loose, granular particles of disintegrated rock. Soda lime is the chemical term for the mixture of calcium hydroxide and sodium or potassium hydroxide. It is a drying agent and absorbs carbon dioxide. Another compound used in marble manufacturing is silica, a white or colorless crystalline found in agate, flint, quartz, and other rocks. Some marbles are also made from cullet, or scrap glass.
The Manufacturing
ProcessMeltdown
•Sand, soda lime, and crushed cullet are fed into a large, furnace-driven tank. In the tank, the mixture is heated to 2300°F (1260°C) to melt the raw materials. This can take as long as 28 hours.
Injection•Next, the molten mixture moves out of the tank through an opening into another vat known as the flow tank. There an opening in the tank injects molten colored glass. This hot, pigmented glass gives the marbles their distinct appearance. A green marble has been injected with glass containing iron oxide; cobalt results in a blue marble; and manganese will yield a purple one. The use of uranium oxide gives marbles an eerie, greenish-yellow cast. The speed and force of the injection determines the final design of the marble. A grooved feeder device, patented by the Akro Agate Company, was able to produce multicolored marbles known as corkscrews.
Cutting and cooling•Next, the still-molten glass is released from the flow tank as globs of glass. Automatic cutting devices slice the mixture into equal parts. The globs travel down metal ramps that simultaneously cool them and perfect their spherical shape. Next, they travel down a second metal slide and are sorted by hand. These grooved rollers were the invention of Horace Hill, a former employee of Christensen and Son and later founder of Akro Agate. This device produced marbles much more quickly and reduced the labor necessary by nearly two-thirds. Marbles with flaws are sent back to another area of the factory for re-melting. The marbles cool off in 5-gallon (19 1) containers that house 5,000 marbles at a time.
