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    My grandfather collected a lot of...junk. He had everything from World War II gun parts, to 1980's Yuengling beer cans. When I was in Pennsylvania a few weeks ago, I went digging in a closet, and found an old mason jar full of marbles. He found these over the many years he worked as a heavy machinery operator. As he would clear the way for logging, power lines or construction sites, he would hop out and look around for antiques and artifacts. He never found arrowheads, but he would find marbles. These are the whole ones he found after work hours.


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    Cat's eye's



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    Swirly




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    Little cat's eye's


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    One of my favorites



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    Look at these clay marbles!


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    Beauty at it's best.




    I have more, and I will post them soon.
    "The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert E. Lee

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    Cool marbles. Your grandpa’s place sounds like it would have been awesome as a kid with so much interesting stuff.

    Interesting how people find what they are looking for. Many years ago, during a drought, I spent several summer days walking some exposed sites at a reservoir back home. The same guy was there most of the time, and eventually he asked if I was finding much. “Getting picked over, did well the first few days, etc.” A couple more days go by and I see him at another site and walk over to chat after a nice find.

    I show him a point and he says neat find but he’s never found one. I was a little confused until saw his bucket contained lures and fishing stuff that had snagged on the bottom. He wasn’t even looking for relics, and fwiw I hadn’t seen a fishing lure in my days walking those sites. In ended up waking the parts of the sites I thought he walked, and found plenty.
    Hong Kong, but from Indiana/Florida

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    • #3
      Blue/White one might be an Alley Agate 2 color Swirl. The oldest of the cat's eyes may be like the blue one in the middle of three. Looks like a banana. I never played with marbles growing up it really was just a little before my time that it was a hot toy but I LOVE EM now!
      Professor Shellman
      Tampa Bay

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      • Kentucky point
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        I know absolutely nothing about em'. All I know is that they look awesome!

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      Really nice KP, that next too last photo has some really old ones in it. Gotta take the time too look mine up.

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      • #5
        I love marbles, I find them all over the place here and it always makes my day. The clay ones are called “commies” the white one with blue paint is probably a porcelain marble and that bigger brown glaze one is called a Bennington
        call me Jay, i live in R.I.

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        • #6
          Cool KP if I remember we called the bigger ones "shooters"
          SW Connecticut

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          • #7
            Love it . My days

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            • #8
              Ethan
              Every once in awhile I find marbles like the clays on NA camp sites...
              Lubbock County Tx

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              • #9
                Ethan I just noticed the clay ones whoa just beautiful .

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                • #10
                  Always had a thing for marbles. Played a lot with them when young.
                  South Dakota

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                    Here is a group shot. Most are glass, some are clay. I don't know if the others are porcelain, china or agate.
                    "The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert E. Lee

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                    • #12
                      Then here are two I found personally. These were in the foundation of an 1700's-1860's house. These are China marbles, i.e densely packed white clay with painted designs. I know about that much. Somebody said these date to 1840's-1850's.


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                      "The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert E. Lee

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                      • 2ndoldman
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                        Those are your best ones. 👌

                      • Tam
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                        Those are my favorite ..

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                      "The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert E. Lee

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                      • #14
                        I was the marble king in middle school we use to play them at lunch. It was funny got to be when I walked out to play all the kids would scatter I couldn’t hardly get anybody to play cause I won so much. If you won you got their marble. I had a big bucket full of trophy marbles at home. Got married young moved and I guess my mother gave them away never saw them again.
                        NW Georgia,

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                        • #15
                          Nice marbles, I too remember playing marbles when I was a kid [ I'm 54 as of yesterday] and I remember that my best friend had a couple of those clay ones that he said were once his grandpa's, one day I challenged him to play one against me If I played my most prized marble. I won, but I knew how much it meant to him so I gave him back his family heirloom and he never dared playing one of those again.
                          Skip to modern times and a couple years ago I picked up a miniature working cannon at a gun auction and wanted to use it, but it being an odd caliber around .64 I didn't have a source for lead balls that size and started looking for an alternative, I saw a bag of modern glass marbles my daughter had and found that they were not all consistent sizes but at least half of them were .63 diameter which worked perfectly when wrapped with cloth wadding so I bought a couple bags for myself and have been firing them into the woods behind my house. so maybe decades or longer from now future generations will be finding these marbles and collecting them never imagining how they really ended up there.

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                          • Kentucky point
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                            Ha ha! That would be an odd story to tell later on!
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