STUNNING Victorian marbles which were blown by hand and would have been “a rich kid’s toy” could fetch thousands of pounds at auction.
The 200-year-old “onion skin” marbles and the turned wood solitaire boards are believed to have been made in Germany in the late eighteenth century.
The two sets, estimated to fetch more than £1000, were coincidentally handed into Glasgow’s Great Western Auctions by two separate vendors last week.
David Convery, saleroom manager at Great Western Auctions, said he hadn’t seen marble sets of such “quality and rarity” before.
The boards measure 24cm and 28cm in diameter and the marbles are larger than normal ones.
Convery said: “I’m 30-odd years in the auction business and I’ve not seen marble sets of this quality and rarity before.”
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