Did you know …

• marbles are the oldest toys on earth.
• marble games have been played for more than 4,000 years all over the world.
• marbles were originally made of clay, stone or bone.
• the advent of glass marbles added a whole new dimension to the exciting and never ending world of marbles.
  

Sulphides …

The large, handmade, transparent marbles with an object inside are called "sulphides". They are the most popular and highly valued of all collectible marbles. Not only are they the most popular, but they are also the most expensive as well!

Records from the Museum for Glass Art, in the German province of Thuringen, show that independent crafts people in the village of Lausche were producing marbles with inset animals and other motifs in the 1850's.

The most common method for inserting the object into the marble was for one glass worker to gather the glass on the front of the rod, while another glassworker gently pressed the object into the soft glass.

Glass from the edges of the newly forming marble was then folded over the object until it became totally enclosed within the marble. The glass was then carefully smoothed down to eliminate any bubbles of air.

Once the air bubbles had been removed, the marble was then probably rounded on a marver after which marble scissors were used to remove the new marble from the glass rod.


Sulphides - now available for all under the brand name WINNERS™

After a long period of research and testing, Sulphide Productions (HK) Ltd. has succeeded in producing industrial quantities of genuine handmade sulphides (we call them WINNERS™ ). Our working process is so unique a world wide patent is being sought.