Toy Marble Size Chart

Along with superb american toys and folk art the top selling toy was a spectacular circa 1885 william demuth co.

Toy marble size chart.

Identification and price guide 5th edition after i approved the final draft of the book the publisher changed two of the images without my consent. Watch for unusual sizes of marbles. They have refused to put an erratum sheet in the book. Most templates measure to 16ths of an inch.

Deep cobalt blue with strong outer bands of yellow blue white purple green and orange. A comparable marble is one of similar size color and quality made by the same manufacturer. Indian mag lite marble. A manufacturer of ceramic marbles.

Bennington pottery marbles are brown or blue or a combination of brown and blue and are common in small sizes. Lay a marble template on the tissue and try the marble in the different holes until you find the one closest to the size of the marble. Use a caliper to determine the size of a marble since size affects the price. Antique cane cut glass marbles though some speculate that glass spheres produced near ancient rome were used as marbles the earliest glass toy marbles were made in germany in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Erratum sheet for marbles. Tips for sizing machine made marbles. He also obtained a license to use matthew lang s injection molding process to make porcelain marbles. Two inches and larger and one half inch or less are sizes that may make an ordinary marble a rare one.

To help determine what size to order please refer to our tips below. Brown got his start in the marble business as sam dyke s protégé and used a license to manufacture clay marbles obtained from dyke. So here s a copy of one i produced. Tip 1 use a caliper micrometer tool if available.

In 1846 a glassworker in the town of lausche invented the marbelschere or marble scissors a tool that rounded a marble in one step. Grade marbles with guidelines from the marble society of america. Founder of the standard toy marble company in akron ohio in 1893. This chart is printable and should be a close measurement guide.

Size examples 12mm is about 1 2 inch across very small 14mm is the size of a traditional chinese checker game 16mm is about the size of a dime the size of a player marble 25mm is about the size of a quarter the size of a shooter marble 35mm is about the size of a 50 cent piece 42mm is about the size of a silver dollar 50mm is about 2. This is important when buying and selling marbles as collectors base price on the size. Marbles typically sell for 50 to 75 percent of the realized auction value when offered in a private sale. Use the ruler in the image to make sure the printed image is scaled to life size.

Commissions and fees charged by the auction house are responsible for the lowered price.