New to marbling and need direction

[Bfbirch]

I just acquired a bunch of marbles from my mom’s estate. Wondering if I should pursue sorting and determining any value or not? If I should pursue, any tips on where to go from here?

 

 

[Steph]

Original bags are nice.  I'm guessing less than $20 in value for the bag though.  


The light green one at the top right here interests me.  




Larger marbles are often worth more.   The blue, yellow and white one here is a nice Marble King.  Not rare, I think, but at that size it's nice.




 

[Steph]

Overall a lot of commons.

The solid color ones are called game marbles.

The transparent ones are called clearies. 

And you have a lot of cat's eyes.  




This picture has the most moderately interesting ones, but nothing is standing out to me.    If you broke it up into lots which conveniently fit into a small priority mailers you might be able to get up to $100 for even the commons on ebay.   Maybe others will see some worth pulling out and giving special treatment.  Oh, speaking of special treatment, if you do plan to sell, then be very careful not to knock them around too much.  Condition is very important to marble value.   And sorry for your loss.  This is a solid assortment of vintage marbles.  Just on the common side.