New Found Collection

[Dan0780]

Hello,  my mother has some older marbles she has been collecting from many years ago. 
 

Can someone help me with ID’ing these and let me know if there is anything of value in this collection?

 

 

[Steph]

Hello. Welcome.  You have a mix of ages. Some modern. Some going back at least to the 1940s. 

The three decorated ones aren't actually marbles.  They are part of a hoax that started in the 1990s.  Someone procured used industrial ball mill balls, the kind used to crush chemicals in factories.   Then they decorated them and took them around to unsuspecting antique dealers. 

In the rest you have some game marbles and clearies and catseyes which usually have little value, but you also have some more interesting ones which could have a little more value though nothing jumped out to me as high dollar. But I am on my phone typing with one finger with a purring cat in my lap so I will leave it to others for now to give you more input.

[Steph]

P.s. I like clearies a whole lot and in the 1950s clearies helped the Vitro Agate company stay open during tough times for American marble manufacturers. So though they are "commons" I gotta say a good word about them. 🙂

[Dan0780]

Thank you very much for the input. My mother is giving them to my son so I wanted to rule out any high dollar ones as they will be in the hands of an 8 year old. 
 

 

[Dan0780]

If there are any of these that are keepers and anyone interested please reach out. The rest will go to marble run fun for the kids. 

[I'llhavethat1]

There are a couple interesting ones in the group. I see at least 3 worth another look

[Fire1981]

In the second pic. Can you take a picture of the one at 12:00 above the ceramic marbles. Top row first one on the left. That one looks pretty interesting to me 🔥

RAR

[cheese]

I see a real nice rainbo in pic 4 at lower left corner. Most in that pic shouldn't be played with.