Highest 1 (one ) marble price !!

[Chad G.]

This last one is obviously a paper weight but because of the exceptionally high price it brought at auction I thought I'd list it anyway.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Steph]

I would be afraid to touch one of those.

[Chad G.]

You're not the only one, I'll stick to pic's, what if you dropped it, like on concrete or something, "SHWOOP'S"

[wvrons]

I think Morphy's auction sold the highest single marble price. It was a three inch handmade, I think the largest ever found. It was over $30,000.00 maybe 32 or 34,000.00 ?

[Chad G.]

I may have a pic of it Ron let me look a while, I know it was a antique German ribbon core, hard to forget a marble like that. Valued so high because it retained it's roundness even at just a hair over 3 inches. "Found it" I have the pic only, I believe it's changed hand's at least once since the Morphy auction, maybe more than once. Someone will recognize the pic. and fill us in w/ the literature I'm sure, ran into the same discussion on another platform a couple year's ago. I had the entire auction post saved at one time, got a new computer and lost allot of data in the  exchange. A good sized glob of glass to be twirling at the end of a metal rod, let alone keeping it round then making it through the annealing process without cracking, a one in a million for sure.

Edited September 16, 2020 by Chad G.
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