Featured Marbles help please!

I have just acquired a glass jar full of old marbles - I just wanted the jar but the marbles came as part of the package!
Some of the marbles look like they may be quite old but I know absolutely nothing about them - having trawled the Internet my head is now whirling with swirls, onionskins, clambroths, alleys & aggies!
Then I had the thought that there would almost certainly be someone on this board who knows about marbles. If anyone could cast an eye over my photos and give me any info as to age or if they are even worth keeping I would be most grateful. If they are just boring ordinary old marbles then they will go back to the charity shop they came from - I have gained a lovely jar so no loss to me!
I have only taken photos of a sample - there are lots more. They are not all perfect but I expect they were much played with.

 

Can You show us a pic of the jar ? You should be able to find an online Antique Marble Forum just like this one only very specifically focused on marbles.Share yr pics w/ the marble nerds.

 

I have several good books on marbles. Believe it or not it takes some doing to identify them. I do not see anything worth . It looks like you have one small agate in the third pic. I don't know about the ones in Pic 2. They are not in my books. I agree try posting them on a facebook marble site since you already have the pics.

 

Try this site. It was started by a guy called "Marble Alan". Sadly Alan died sometime ago but someone has carried on with the site.

https://buymarbles.com/marblealanhome.html

 

Great link. I am always digging up marbles when I till my soil. I have been curious, but none seem anything special. Sometime when I pull them out, now I can see what they are.

 

Those pictures are all modern machine made. Likely from Mexico

 

Some of those marbles on Alan's site are gorgeous.

 

1st image. 'Porcelains'. Late 70s, early 80s.
4th. 'Oil marbles'. 80s
5th. 90s.

Marbles ages?
Thinking ... my grandpa played with clay marbles, and if i'm right my dad as kid to. Not glass. Plain simple 'fragile' clay.
So my question. Glass marbles can never be antique, or am i wrong? (50s+? 60s+?)

PS: anyone interested in clay marbles? Must have a handfull somewhere floating around.

 

If you go and browse around Marble Alan's site you'll find glass marbles from the 19th C. if that's what you're asking.

 

Yep, that was what i was asking. But it wasn't that big a question to me to read all the informatiom of the given links.
Will dig into this later. Your answer intriged my interest.

Are those old glass ones not highly scarce and exclusive then? As all 'normal' kids had the cheap clay marbles.
https://www.etsy.com/nl/listing/1253957807/franse-antieke-klei-knikkers-billes-en

BTW, i hereby see my clay marbles are hardly the efford.
Yet have a big box full off glass ones i'm going to dig in again with this info
Thanks!!

 

I read somewhere that The "dime stores" used to sell bags of clay that you mixed with water to make your own marbles. That would have been for the poor people. They are not worth anything. Even the glazed ones have fallen in value. I collect the PeeWees. I have probably two gallons of marbles i need to go through still. Even with a good book it can be confusing. Some of them belonged to my uncle who died in his 90's almost ten years ago so they are close to antique and the others are my husbands who was the marble champ of the neighborhood back when you got to keep the marbles you knocked out. All of the boys were playing with their father's marbles it would seem based on the age of his winnings.

 

Great site.

 

There is a very knowledgeable marble Facebook page but they only like you to post a few at a time.

 

Thanks to everyone for your replies. I have looked at all the sites that you suggested - particularly liked Marble Alan. There are beautiful marbles out there, some really are works of art! Sadly none of mine fall into that category though I must say I love the iridescent ones so may keep them and pile them in a glass dish to display. I may put the rest on ebay as a lot and see what happens - if they don't sell they will go back to the charity shop!
Thanks again.

 

The old American marble making machines have been sold to mexico and the orient. They are getting the glass formulas similar to what used to be produced here.