Did You Lose Your Marbles?

[dgridley]

A few days back I bought just over 200 old marbles at a local thrift store for $2.. now all the marbles were machine made but alot were quite nice and all were over 50 years old. I pulled out 30 of the "best" ones and sold the rest to a neighbor for $15 tho after looking on eBay, I may buy them back!

Other than the Latticinio in this auction, mine are just as nice:

http://cgi.ebay.com/26-Swirl-glass-...oryZ2573QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

26 marbles went for $312!

 

[liquidcherry]

That's a nice way to make profit

Cheers,

Frank

 

[mathiasc]

wow. i collected marbles when i was still a little kid. i didn't know those marbles i was playing was worth this much. :lol:

 

[dgridley]

Some are worth much more.. I've sold individual marbles for over $100 each as much as 10 years ago.

By the way, the marbles in the auction aren't mine.. mine are similar.

 

[Phoebe_]

I didn't know too that those cost much.. I've got metal marbles, how much could that be?

 

[weblord]

50 yrs old hand-made marbles those are already collectibles btw
nice profit from them. i used to collect marbles before but lose interest

 

[Michelle]

Nice find for $2 Dave . Ive lots of marbles, never really gave any thought to them.

 

[htmlindex]

I'm suprised Marbles have value. I though they were basically worthless. I do have some marbles from when I was a kid. Don't know where it is now but hopefully it has a bit of value

 

[CharlieA]

How can you tell if a marble is hand-made or worth anything?