Welcome to the Jim Davis Sulphide Marble Gallery!
"Jim Davis was born in West Virginia in 1930. In 1946 he started working in a glass plant making hand-crafted glassware. After learning all of the phases of making stemware, he began using lunch breaks to experiment making other glass objects such as paperweights, eggs, flowers, animals, and other figurines. In 1967, while still working at the plant, he opened his own hand-cut glassware shop in Pennsboro, working in the evenings to fill the orders. In 1990, he was encouraged by Louis Moore (a retired Vitro Agate marble maker) and Dennis Webb (co-author of Greenberg's Guide to Marbles) to make marbles. In 1991, he built his own furnace, made his own equipment, and started making marbles. In 1992, unable to work at the glass plant and keep up with his marble orders, he retired from the glass plant and started making marbles full time at his own glass studio in Pennsboro, West Virginia".
Below you will find a
nice grouping of Jim Davis Sulphide Marbles. These marbles are from my
personal collection mikesmarbles@yahoo.com
that I purchased from Jim Davis in 1997. Feel free to check out the Davis Handmade Marbles Website or the Andy
Davis Marbles website for further information about Davis Handmade Marbles.
This is the rarest of the Jim Davis Sulphide Marbles. I purchased this marble in July of 2003 at a Flea Market from a gentleman that knows Jim Davis. This is unique from all the other marbles that he has made during his life. It is a mouse trying to get some cheese. The marble as you will notice has colors in it and really unusual. I emailed the Davis family and they let me know that this marble is rare indeed. They said that Jim did not make many sulphide marbles in his life and this is the rarest.
A rare marble containing a cat with a mouse.
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