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What is better to collect or you enjoy more? Handmades of any era whether old Germans or Contemporaries. Or machine mades produced by Vitro, Akro, etc. I'll start out and say I enjoy trying to find handmades and I enjoy them more than machine mades. Your turn now.

Better: Handmade vs. Machinemade

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Handmades

norbridgeantiques says:

Handmades are better. I love vintage and antiques. Nevertheless, if necessary in order to play machine mades are great.

Posted May 25, 2009

miley6c says:

My mom had a couple real beautiful ones that had flecks of Mica in them. I think they are so beautiful.

Posted May 15, 2009

Lucas73 says:

Handmades. Love sulfides and onionskins the best.

Posted April 10, 2009

Classicvideogamesplus says:

Milkcananime: I'm not too good but know how to play Ring Taw, Bun-hole, and shoot marbles in the traditional game Ringer though has various rules.

Posted February 18, 2009

milkcananime says:

Playing marbles was one of my favourite childhood pastime. We
will shoot our "opponent" marbles with a dart-throwing pattern
or using fingers from both hand. The pro (like myself ^_^) can
hit the small marble 20m away in sandy patch.
Then we move on to advance games, much like gambling. We will
draw a circle in the sand and insert 50cents coins for each
player who is playing. The rule is to either hit the coins out
of the circle to claim the money or kill your opponent with a
hit. U can dislodge as many coins as u like. Thinking of
childhood moments feel so nostalgic :). I esp. love the small
3 colour strips with white background marble. Do u play these
games Howard?

Posted February 18, 2009

mibhound says:

Handmades of course.

Posted January 23, 2009

RedhawksQualityItems says:

I Absolutely Love All Of Them But I Am Very Partial To The
Handmade and the deep thought that went into the work!

Posted December 08, 2008

carrie75d says:

Look better to me, but what do I know.

Posted November 23, 2008

marsha32 says:

handmade is so much nicer for a lot of reasons.

Posted October 26, 2008

Jeaks says:

Handmade all the way!!!!

Posted September 07, 2008

ade says:

No contest even the most stunning contempory is out-classed by a vintage handmade.... Until the contempory becomes vintage?

Posted August 17, 2008

grannydaisy says:

love those handmade items........

Posted May 24, 2008

MeMeBev says:

The last comment was me...usually it ask for you to sign in before posting...sorry, you are getting two for the price of one!

Posted May 15, 2008

MeMeBev says:

Handmade! That is why I am always making things...

Posted May 15, 2008

freebird_sarah says:

I love handmade things. Thats a big part of our business.

Posted May 07, 2008

ms-giggles says:

Handmade. Thats what I play with when I was growing up.
Those were the days my friend.
Beth

Posted April 28, 2008

Renagade says:

The more of a "RELIC" the better!!! LOL

Posted April 15, 2008

blue22d says:

Handmade. I marvel at the creativity and handiwork that goes into handmade marbles.

Posted April 04, 2008

bjslapidary says:

I like them both. We have collected marbles over the years too. We use to have a variety store and sold many marbles then. We have quite a collection of marbles by Harry Boyer from Harbor Springs, Mi. We use to live there and that's where we have our store. We do have one sulphide marble. Lots of fun. Voting is hard as we like them both.

Posted March 04, 2008

Classicvideogamesplus says:

Handmades as described above. I like hand crafted effort and the German swirls, solid core, latticino core, etc are absolutely breathtaking.

Posted February 11, 2008

Machinemades

RuntFarmSeries says:

Hard to say which of my marbles is my favorite -- they're so pretty when they're all in a group! I learned a lot about marbles from your lens. Thank you! In Book 2, Beatrice and Blossom have a difficult situation involving a game of marbles. Lensrolling to my author site and Runt Farm series as well, for those who want to learn more about marbles as collectibles.

Posted November 19, 2009

geraldsinclair says:

dont know about collecting but only played with ones like marble kings and cant remember the other names off hand. so Ill go with the machined ones. did people really play with the handmades?

Posted June 04, 2009

Harry_P2 says:

I played marbles and all we used were machine ones back in the 50's and 60's. Maybe for collecting and value others would choose hand made.

Posted April 01, 2009

lovebug1 says:

I will say Handmades may be more valuable and pretty but most people can only afford the machine ones and some of them are really pretty as well.

Posted December 17, 2008

blujayer35 says:

I am no expert on Marbles but my parents had a few vases with these types of marbles and had marbles in a lamp and it looked beautiful so I'll say machine marbles.

Posted November 05, 2008

jeised says:

Akro and Alley are some classic Machine Mades. Remember them when I was younger so I'm partial to machine mades.

Posted October 31, 2008

 
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