In this book, the machine-made marbles have been divided into two groups, early machine-made marbles (1900 to 1925) and automatic machine-made marbles (1925 to present). Included are nearly 100 full-color photos portraying thousands of marbles, complete descriptions for all marbles featured, and updated values.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Pretty, but incomplete,
By packratrev "dayspring-collectibles" (Ackley, IA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Machine Made and Contemporary Marbles (Grists, Everett//Machine-Made and Contemporary Marbles) (Paperback)
From the number of pages, I didn't expect this to be a book that would be very comprehensive. Yet even as a basic start I was disappointed. The entire book is a series of color plates, each showing many marbles. These photos are truly beautiful and show a nice range of marbles. However, I found it of little use in identifying marbles I had. It was much to incomplete. The book could have been grouped by manufacturer, which would have helped some. There is a price guide for each plate in the back of the book. However, there is no indication for what size marble the price applies, and as marble collectors know, size matters. For some plates only ranges were given for all the marbles pictured, instead of giving individual prices. These ranges were wide enough to not be of much help when trying to appraise a marble's value. The photos have little text to go with them, which would have been helpful to help novices learn the differences between types of marbles. Buy it for the pretty pictures, but don't expect much from it.
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Machine-made marbles as the marble collectors speak of them today cover a wide variety of designs, produced over a long period of time from the early years of the twentieth century to the present time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
marble collectors, picture marbles, moss agates Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Machine-made marbles as the marble collectors speak of them today cover a wide variety of designs, produced over a long period of time from the early years of the twentieth century to the present time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
marble collectors, picture marbles, moss agates Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Christensen Agate, Akro Agate, Courtesy of Brian Estepp, Master Made, Cambridge Glass New!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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