Cat Eye Marble Identification

Marble king and vitro agate are the most common american cat s to find.

Cat eye marble identification.

The wvmcc was organized on march 30 2003 and is dedicated to educating individuals about the collecting and preservation of marbles art glass orbs related artifacts and documents. During this procedure a stick is used where the marble is attached. The peltier glass company s use of a clear glass. Once done the stick is broken on its end.

This leaves a tiny rough patch on the marble which is known as the. Look for the pontil. Most vintage marbles were made by hand through the process called glassblowing. If you saw one you saw them all so naturally nobody really cared to play for keeps with them.

Here are some ways to determine if a marble is vintage or not. Machine made marbles typically lack the small rough patch called a pontil which is often used to identify older marbles. By the time cat s eyes were invented most marble companies used machines to manufacture their products which adds to the challenge of dating cat s eye marbles accurately. Rediscovering cats eye marbles despite the intial wow factor when cats eye marbles first flooded america in the 1950s within 20 years the entire world of marbles had seemingly drowned in tidal waves of generic green tinted cats eye marbles.