sclsu Posted June 21, 2015 Report Share Posted June 21, 2015 I am sorting through my recent acquisitions and I have found several marbles that seem to be not quite round, like oblong or slightly flattened. I personally think they are less collectible for me, but I'm wondering what other people think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted June 21, 2015 Report Share Posted June 21, 2015 Gonna go with less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sclsu Posted June 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2015 Gonna go with less. I guess I just wonder because I started with coins and baseball cards, where the errors are usually more valuable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted June 21, 2015 Report Share Posted June 21, 2015 Good point.Some errors could add value.And on the most common marbles, finding one out of round could possible turn a marble which is worth a nickle into one which is worth $1 or more. A football shaped cateye might possibly be worth more than average.Some people collect egg-shaped marbles and other oddballs. I think mostly for fun, not value. However, you might be able to get money for them if you market them cleverly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Marbles Posted June 21, 2015 Report Share Posted June 21, 2015 I agree with Steph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted June 21, 2015 Report Share Posted June 21, 2015 Agreed, Less in almost all cases IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sclsu Posted June 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2015 Another question. At what point is it considered cullet? Or is cullet distinct enough that the difference puts them in different categories? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted June 21, 2015 Report Share Posted June 21, 2015 That's another good question. Here are some variations on the real-word definition of cullet. Scraps of broken or waste glass gathered for remelting, especially with new material. Waste glass for melting down to be reused. Broken or waste glass suitable for remelting. Perhaps variant of collet (literally: little neck, referring to the glass neck of newly blown bottles, etc). http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cullet So when you see glass companies with piles of glass to be recycled into marbles, that's definitely cullet. But marble collectors sometimes have slightly different definitions, so we call the big chunks of glass found at marble factory sites "cullet" even if the chunks might never have been intended to be reused. And I have a lot of jars of out-of-round and broken Jabos which I have labelled as cullet. And now that you ask I'm not sure if I was correct to do so, but that's how I thought of them at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted June 21, 2015 Report Share Posted June 21, 2015 Significantly less - and generally far harder to sell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck G Posted June 22, 2015 Report Share Posted June 22, 2015 The (out of round) collectors!! Yes, i collect the (FOOTBALL) shaped marbles from all makers. There are a few collectors that collect the odd shaped marbles, not many but there are. Chuck G-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mibcapper Posted June 22, 2015 Report Share Posted June 22, 2015 this is a pelt nanna egg. not many found.footballs, barbells, are sought after also. all the makers had these anomolies .......... bill ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted June 22, 2015 Report Share Posted June 22, 2015 I don't think out-of-round counts quite so much in the old German handmades. That said, what everybody else said ^^^ up there. I personally like marbles with accidental "stuff" in them. And deliberately have a couple examples of marbles with a flat side that got by quality control (a sparkler, but not as good as Steph's! and an interestingly flat-sided ribbon lutz swirl). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted June 22, 2015 Report Share Posted June 22, 2015 I completely forgot my sparklers. Doh. So how much might these squishy ones be worth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popeyecollector Posted June 22, 2015 Report Share Posted June 22, 2015 For years I have been adding to my assorment of marbles that for one reason or another are not quite round. Many of my rogues have been selected for their distinctive - identifiable colors and patterns. Descriptive tags on these "odd balls" incllude: marble machine dodo, drips. bumbbells, donuts, spaghetti marbles that have either gone through the rollers or not, footballs, overshots and various combinations of those and more. None of these "errors" are extremely valuable, most were dug -- but they are still eye catchers -- especially at marble shows for the bored tagalong wife or tired children. Big Indian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I'llhavethat1 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 one of my favorite not-quite-round shooters. Apparently got stuck and cooled on the rollers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 That's great! And I like the term "rogue" for these oddities! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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