Christensen Agate Company Marbles

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Christensen agate company marbles.

Fast free shipping on many items. The most common christensen agate company marbles are swirls. Mint 9 9 b255 pre owned. His company the m.

Christensen agate produced swirls in a wide variety of different patterns and color combinations. Customs services and international tracking provided. Vintage cac christensen agate company 3 color opaque swirl marble 63 105. Christensen son company slags are easily identified by the 9 pattern on the top pole and the cut off line on the bottom.

Because each color was a different density they did not melt together but rather created strata. The marbles were made by mixing two or more glass colors in a single furnace. This company was started by akronites in 1911 but located in clarksburg west virginia. However brief its career was it was also spectacular for the company produced some of the most colorful and beautiful machine made marbles the world would ever see.

Their mix of craftsmanship science and innovation produced vividly beautiful marbles that many collectors consider the artistic peak of machine made toy marble production. Vintage cac christensen agate company 3 color opaque swirl marble 105. These marbles have a swirling pattern of transparent colored base with opaque white swirls. Christensen son company marbles are slags.

Christensen son co manufactured millions of toy and industrial glass marbles until they ceased operations in 1917. The next us company to enter the glass marble market was akro agate. The christensen agate company was founded in 1925 but was out of business only eight years later.