Questions about the Master Marbles and misc that I bought in on my trip to Buenos Aires.

[TootlesMarbles]

I recently had a business trip to Buenos Aires, Argentina, in South America, and on the last couple days of my trip, I had my business partner's mother direct us to the antique/thrift area of the city. There, in an alley pavilion with hardly a roof put over it, I managed to find some marbles in South America. I have been on the hunt for unique marble collections for the last ten years, after discovering their art and historic value, I have been fascinated to find many marble collections over time. This one though, is very unusual to me, since I found it in Argentina, and it seems to be a very old.

I believe these are mostly Master Marbles from the 1930s. I found them in an old Van Cleef & Arpels Paris box, with a purple felt-lined jewelry box inside, with some marbles that had already been sorted. Bedded beneath the box, was a loose-marble collection of various tyles, swirls and slags, I only barely sorted them in zip-lock bags, but the photos I am sharing is of the unpicked collection, I only cleaned some of the mud and dust from the marbles. I think there might be value selling this as a collection, rather than one marble at a time, so I am showing you a 'raw' find, I haven't picked through this collection at all, it's just sorted and cleaned, and I'm wondering if there might be a story behind how all these amazing marbles managed to get down to Buenos Aires.

I took some photos, under normal and UV light. The marbles in the jewelry box are highly reactive, the slags and swirls in the zip-lock bags not-so-much, but I plan on taking more photos soon. I would love to know more about these marbles, to perhaps preserve them as a collection, before I might star selling them individually? Thank you for your feedback, I will wait a while to make an educated decision about the collection . . . I might need to pay for another trip to Buenos Aires soon though, so let me know. Chao!

[Ric]

Well that's a cool find. I have a feeling many of the ones you think are Masters may actually be from Argentina.

Check this out . . .

 

[Alan]

Daylight pics would help with ID.

UV doesn't help ID and doesn't indicate age, manufacturer or collectability.

[TootlesMarbles]

1 hour ago, Alan said:

Daylight pics would help with ID.

UV doesn't help ID and doesn't indicate age, manufacturer or collectability.

I will take more pictures in natural light within the next couple of days, I will try to include some close-ups too.

[duotone]

Looking forward to more photos. I'd say there are some Veiligglas opaque swirls in the last bag.

[akroorka]

23 hours ago, TootlesMarbles said:

I might need to pay for another trip to Buenos Aires soon though, so let me know. Chao!

 

Argentina was heavily influence by many German manufacturers over the years.

I suspect that these may have been made in Argentina by German influenced machines.
The more images that we get, the better—for sure.
These could be special—at least here in the USA
Lets call in @Mojo for a comment here.
Marble—On!!