What Is A Peltier Marble

One of the most collectible peltier glass marbles is the picture marble or comic marble.

What is a peltier marble.

Greatly reduced prices for marbles with id numbers marked in green yellow. Usually there is an over glaze of clear glass. Shooters 3 4 7 8 jumbos 15 16 up. The peltier marbles information site.

These are peltier peerless patches with a black transfer of one of twelve different king syndicate comic characters fired on the marble surface. These marbles are unique in their properties or have been given special names based on their colors. Peltier peerless patch marbles a very popular marble that was also used in the manufacture of the peltier character marbles the most common color combinations are yellow on aqua black on white green on yellow transparent green on white and red on aqua. 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.

Rare or hard to find peltier s. Peltier s was the clear national lined rainbow marble and christensen s was the what we call today as the christensen cobra. Usually there is an overglaze of clear glass. 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.

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. 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. Many of the example on this page have been provided by other collectors. Click on the image of your favorite for an enlarged view and detailed description.

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