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[jeroen]

Jereon, Absolutely fantastic marble but that type(handgathered faceted pontil handmade) does show up in a Catalog from around 1880 I beleive. Directly under the box in this add http://i119.photobuc...-1183927117.jpg could be 1860 or 70 but I am still looking for proof they were making glass marbles in 1860

Hello,

I asked my friend Jeroen van Valkenburg about that catalog, and that catalog is most likely from after 1900. Beside that, the Germans started to produce the first machine made slags in the early 1900. Those marbles are shown on that catalog. The single gathered are much older. Jeroen van Valkenburg told me he found one in the ground in the Netherlands during archaeological excavations together with a coin dated 1837. Both were in the same soil level. There is other proof that marbles were made before 1850 or 1860. In 1848 Elias Greiner invented the marble scissor. See this link http://www.knikkerwereld.nl/glas.php. Translate it with google translator in English. Het got patent for it on September 5th of that year. I don't think he invented this scissor and got patent for it, to produce glass bottles. I have also heard of a sulphide marble with a coin (not a metal coin of course) in it dated 1855. But I asked my friend to help me with this article and I hope there is some more proof of marbles dated from before 1860.

Perhaps other collectors out there can help.

Regards,

Jeroen

[lstmmrbls]

Thanks for the great link Jereon. I need to adjust my time frames. And I now wonder if that poster may be from the 1920s. Sorry folks, back on track

[Killermarbles]

The big one