What Is A Peltier Marble

Many of the example on this page have been provided by other collectors.

What is a peltier marble.

The peltier picture marbles also called character marbles comics are peltier peerless patches with a black transfer of one of twelve different king syndicate comic characters fired on the marble surface. These appear to have been produced later than most other american catseye type marbles though by some accounts they were made prior to those. The peltier marbles information site. One of the most collectible peltier glass marbles is the picture marble or comic marble.

Usually there is an overglaze of clear glass. Greatly reduced prices for marbles with id numbers marked in green yellow. This site is dedicated to the collecting and sharing of marbles made by the peltier glass company of ottawa il common types include nlr s rainbo s character marble s and more. Click on the image of your favorite for an enlarged view and detailed description.

Please see the acknowledgments. Other marble videos stephen bahr on the left is a dragon with a green base and red lines on the left is a flaming dragon which includes orange lines peltier bloody vs bloody mary. These marbles are unique in their properties or have been given special names based on their colors. Both the peltier marble company and the christensen marble company tried to produce a marble in an effort to compete with japanese cat s eyes and both company first effort were a failure.

Peltier glass company produced a very specific type of catseye marble referred to be collectors as bananas because the shape of the single vane that runs from pole to pole in the center of the marble. These are peltier peerless patches with a black transfer of one of twelve different king syndicate comic characters fired on the marble surface. Peltier s was the clear national lined rainbow marble and christensen s was the what we call today as the christensen cobra. Shooters 3 4 7 8 jumbos 15 16 up.

American machine made marbles gives this result from a count alan b made of 470 peltier comics suggesting koko is the least rare and kayo is the most rare.