LindPW Posted August 31, 2017 Report Share Posted August 31, 2017 Can anyone give me any info about this marble. I'm pretty sure it's brass as it's not magnetic. It measures 5/8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted August 31, 2017 Report Share Posted August 31, 2017 I'll guess it was made for a decoration. I'm not familiar with play marbles made out of that material. The second picture makes it look like the brass coloring might be a coating. Is it heavy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindPW Posted August 31, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2017 I actually couldn't see the defect in the color until I saw the picture. It is heavy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted August 31, 2017 Report Share Posted August 31, 2017 Interesting that it's heavy, and maybe silvery inside, and yet not magnetic. I don't know the material. Still guessing decorative. Two different kinds of steelies were marketed for sale as toy marbles -- one hollow and one the basic solid ball bearing. Not aware of other metal balls being marketed as toy marbles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindPW Posted August 31, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2017 I was thinking, maybe lead. Probably not good for a children's toy. Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted August 31, 2017 Report Share Posted August 31, 2017 yeah .... not so good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie Posted August 31, 2017 Report Share Posted August 31, 2017 It's not a toy marble although as a child we used them as toy marbles. I believe they are part of a ballbearing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dusty56 Posted August 31, 2017 Report Share Posted August 31, 2017 Looks like steelie to me.probly demagnetized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindPW Posted September 1, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2017 3 hours ago, dusty56 said: Looks like steelie to me.probly demagnetized. Awesome! thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wvrons Posted September 1, 2017 Report Share Posted September 1, 2017 It is a ball bearing. Not made or sold for any connection with toy marbles. True steelies connected to marbles are hallow and have a X crimp mark on one pole where they were folded closed. Most are steel but I have one brass hallow steelie with the X. These were marketed and sold for use with toy marbles. True steelie sizes are from 9/16 to 7/8 or near one inch. A few actual ball bearings were packaged and sold as marble steelies. But these solid ones were never allowed in any marble game. I find different ball bearings in 8 out of every 10 larger groups of marbles that I am ask to sort. Usually one or two ball bearings in every quart of old marbles in all the antique shops. The ball bearings are marble killers. Do not mix them with glass marbles. Unless you like hits moons chips fractured damaged low value marbles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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