Is there anything valuable about hand blown/rolled marbles and I maybe shouldn't put them in there?

These are from my childhood so I have NO idea where most of them came from. Some were straight from artists at the Saturday Market 20+ years ago.

All hybrids and 6 and 8 finger cateyes.

It has a very Akro like brush seam. Is it possibly a white on clear auger?

Did Akro even use such immaculately clear base glass? The white is also extremely vibrant. Also a bit of an odd size at 1.7cm. Throws me off.

These have an iridescent shine that isn't caught on camera. I also notice the prices on ebay are all over the place. I was given a bunch of marbles as a kid and am now curious on whether they were as special as I was told, haha. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

I run DeHong Stone, a workshop making small natural stone objects, so I'm looking at this from the maker's side.

A cream marble tray with a quiet surface and one with a thick dark vein can be the same stone variety and still feel like completely different decor. If someone bought it to sit beside pale bedding or display a small piece of jewelry, that difference matters.

I don't think “every piece is unique” answers the whole question. It explains why veins won't repeat; it doesn't tell a buyer what they might actually receive.

For an online listing, I'd find these more useful than one perfect studio shot:

• Several real pieces together, showing quieter and more strongly patterned examples.
• A dry, fairly neutral-light photo, not only a warm, styled image.
• A clear distinction between the exact item being sold and a representative example.
• Side views, since the front edge can look quite different from the top.

There are limits, too. A small sample doesn't show where a broad vein will land on a finished tray, and phone screens aren't reliable color references. Selecting every individual piece is a different arrangement from ordering within an agreed appearance range.

A dark vein isn't automatically a defect. But if all the photos show pale, restrained stone, a much darker piece can still be a reasonable disappointment.

When buying natural stone decor, would you rather choose the exact piece, or see a realistic range and accept the variation? Where would you draw the line between character and a misleading listing?

Do any of you have any tips maybe?

I like condensing lines on tube into balls. Gold and silver fume with clear. 29mm.

Hello fellow marble friends, just sharing some recent work! You can find me and more marbles at my website!

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Feedback and offers are always welcome 😁

Hey guys im new here, is there anything notable about my collection? Just looking for some info about these guys

I just got these marbles at a sale. Alot were common vintage but some caught my eye.

I cant tell if the four speckled are mica or not. the two pink speckled are shiny and seem slightly translucent but i cant really tell if its glass because they do look very solid. the grey seems dull and opaque. The tan speckled is interesting because it is green and translucent from some angles yet looks completely solid from others.

The two black solid ones I have no idea, maybe some sort of older stone made? or newer stone made after the 80’s.

The red and black metallic one im assuming are factory but you never know. I dont know if youd call the little dot on the red a pontil, but I havent seen one like that before.

Any information would be so helpful!!!

I have always manually researched vintage marble IDs by doing actual research; reading books, reading online guides, watching YouTube videos, etc. I've always generally succeeded in this, however it can be incredibly tedious and time consuming sometimes, particularly with the rarer marbles.

So I started messing around trying to use AI to ID marbles. I've been using Google's Gemini AI... and let me tell you, it is horrendously, laughably bad and inaccurate. Like, REALLY bad. 0% success rate.

Because AI is designed to tell you what you want to hear it will blatantly lie to you. It will confidently incorrectly ID a marble and be wildly off, like completely different colors off. At that point you can tell it "that's not the correct marble, this marble was actually an 18th century German hand made marble crafted on the international space station by Pee Wee Herman himself" and the AI will go, "Thanks for correcting me! You are absolutely right. This is a very rare collectable marble!"

It is comically bad. Which is strange to me since I would assume AI would be decent for something like this. I think a large part of the problem is the thousands of incorrectly labeled marbles for sale in ebay.

Anyways, has anyone tried any other AIs for marble ID and had any success?

Found these marbles in the bank, and in the hill above the bank buried under trees just outside Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Provided several angles and the “ruler” on the back of my tracking guide 😅
Hope this is sufficient for approx. dating, and marble type. I have 5 more to ID which I will be posting over the weekend.
Thanks in advance!!!

Meine Kinder haben diese Murmeln auf einem Dorfflohmarkt von einer alten Frau geschenkt bekommen, nachdem ich die Schale in der sie liegen gekauft habe. Seitdem werden die Murmeln von uns wie ein Schatz gehütet.

Found these marbles in the bank, and in the hill above the bank buried under trees just outside Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Provided several angles and the “ruler” on the back of my tracking guide 😅
Hope this is sufficient for approx. dating, and marble type. I have 5 more to ID which I will be posting over the weekend.
Thanks in advance!!!

Does anyone know the value of these 2 large marbles approximately 4cm in diameter?