Indian Clay Marbles

A marble is a small spherical toy often made from glass clay steel plastic or agate these balls vary in size.

Indian clay marbles.

Clay marbles are usually found in their natural tan color but they may also be dyed. 5 out of 5 stars 586 586 reviews 18 80. Clay marbles were produced extensively in the 1800s and 1900s. This group is designed to share pictures info and opinions on native american game balls clay marbles and hammerstones.

Marbles with multi color bands are rarer as are marbles with a color base glass rather than the white base. They were popular because they were inexpensive to produce requiring none of the special equipment or knowledge necessary for the production of glass marbles which made them inexpensive to purchase. Click on a term to search for related topics. Indian clay marbles for sale indian marbles indian marbles value native american clay marbles native american marbles old indian marbles value of indian marbles.

There are some marbles that have either a brightly colored base or brightly colored bands. From shop after9marbles. The dyed marbles are usually found in red blue brown green or yellow. Colored clay marbles were referred to as polished.

These are sometimes referred to as electric and are valued much higher than other banded opaques. On october 16 2014 i found a native american game ball while while metal detecting in southern ohio. Most commonly they are about 13 mm 1 2 in in diameter but they may range from less than 1 mm 1 30 in to over 8 cm 3 in while some art glass marbles for display purposes are over 30 cm 12 in wide marbles can be used for a variety of games called marbles. Foil clays are small usually less than 1 2 diameter clays with a metallic coating on them.

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