To help determine what size to order please refer to our tips below.
Toy marble size chart.
Tips for sizing machine made marbles.
Tip 1 use a caliper micrometer tool if available.
Grade marbles with guidelines from the marble society of america.
A manufacturer of ceramic marbles.
This chart is printable and should be a close measurement guide.
Write down the measurement.
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.
In 1846 a glassworker in the town of lausche invented the marbelschere or marble scissors a tool that rounded a marble in one step.
This is important when buying and selling marbles as collectors base price on the size.
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.
Bennington pottery marbles are brown or blue or a combination of brown and blue and are common in small sizes.
Along with superb american toys and folk art the top selling toy was a spectacular circa 1885 william demuth co.
Smoking punch cigar advertising figure.
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.
Watch for unusual sizes of marbles.
Use a caliper to determine the size of a marble since size affects the price.
So here s a copy of one i produced.
Deep cobalt blue with strong outer bands of yellow blue white purple green and orange.
Erratum sheet for marbles.
Most templates measure to 16ths of an inch.
They have refused to put an erratum sheet in the book.
Use the ruler in the image to make sure the printed image is scaled to life size.
Indian mag lite marble.
Marbles typically sell for 50 to 75 percent of the realized auction value when offered in a private sale.
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.
Small and large marbles are peewees and shooters in marble terminology and they are scarcer than 5 8 inch marbles.
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.
A comparable marble is one of similar size color and quality made by the same manufacturer.
