Marbles With Figures Inside

Wild animals including razorbacks elephants and lions are a little less common.

Marbles with figures inside.

Diecast toy vehicles. They are still inexpensive and within reach of the average marble collector. Electronic battery wind up. Sulphides or figure marbles are large translucent marbles manufactured in germany from the mid 19th century up until the 1930s usually 1 1 2 or more in size they always feature a figure encased in the center which early collectors mistakenly thought was made from sulfur.

Antique commies are still fairly common. Barnyard animals household pets squirrels and birds are most common. Make offer huge rare old german sulphide marble with hog figure inside. Like other types of antique marbles sulphides have been reproduced and faked in large quantities.

The interior figures are made of white clay or kaolin and appear a silvery color due to light refraction. They are single gather single pontil marbles. Sulphide marbles which feature animals and other figures inside clear glass are very rare as they have not been produced for around 100 years rarer still are those featuring human figures. A sulphide has a transparent base with a sulphide figure inserted inside it.

Huge rare old german sulphide marble with hog figure inside. In fact a sulphide marble featuring teddy roosevelt sold for 4 500 in a 2011 sale. They are called benningtons because their glaze resembles that of the brown and blue glazed bennington ware pottery produced in bennington vermont during the nineteenth century. The most common figure found in a sulphide marble is an animal.

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