You may go a notch higher and go for the most expensive marble.
Mosy valuable marble.
Do you go hunting for treasure at yard sales estate sales thrift stores storage units or just want to price your marble collection.
Vintage marble prices and value often relate to artistic merit.
With diamonds mother of pearl and abalone shell it is not hard to see why it attracts such a value.
This unique zebra colored marble fetched nearly 1700 at auction multiple times more than what most people spend on marbles in their entire lives.
Many of the cat s eye marbles you ll find are recent imports that contain poor quality glass with fine bubbles and will not build a valuable collection.
The lush touch takes the price of the most valuable piece and has an asking cost of 1 million per square meter.
In fact a sulphide marble featuring teddy roosevelt sold for 4 500 in a 2011 sale.
Lutz handmade another very valuable variety is the lutz marble.
1 5 8 cobalt and white swirl marble br estimated 300 600 br sold for 130 3 4 black and blue marble br estimated 20 40 br sold for 40 marbles are part of a wide variety 865 lots of toys trains die cast vehicles and figures that was auctioned live on ebay october 26 2003.
Created by glassblower nicholas lutz in his massachusetts workshop in the 1800s they are characterised by their use of gold colour crystals in alternating bands.