The Marble Collection Book

Good clear photos and descriptions and whilst any marble collector will always want more photos and individual marbles shown this is still a great book.

The marble collection book.

For this book some of the themes and values are as follows. The book tells about the story of a daughter who comes looking for marbles in order to piece together her father s memory as he is really passionate and interested in marbles. The text explains swirl marble types provides tables of current market prices and directs collectors to marble clubs and meets across the country. A marble is a small spherical toy often made from glass clay steel plastic or agate these balls vary in size.

This is the first book in the marble mangosteen s good deed collection series. 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. The series aims to inspire and instil good values in each book. Pg5 2 errata pdf adobe acrobat document 205 4 kb.

The only real let down is the european section where french and dutch marbles are all lumped under german. Erratum sheet for marbles. Teamwork not taking others for granted spending time with the elderly caring for mum friendship and sharing among others. So here s a copy of one i produced.

1 5 8 cobalt and white swirl marble br estimated 300 600 br sold for 130. Identification and price guide 5th edition after i approved the final draft of the book the publisher changed two of the images without my consent. It was told in two perspectives sabrina and her father fergus. This attractive and interesting book is a must for all who collect glass and are fascinated with marbles.

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. They have refused to put an erratum sheet in the book.