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[bartshop62]

Found this marble bonus in The hole!! With the metal object. Found not to far away from a house built in 1850. Found it not to far away from volley ball net that is used today. Reproduction? How was it lost? What material is it? Could it belong to the people that lived there in the 1800s ?View attachment 1896260View attachment 1896261View attachment 1896262View attachment 1896263View attachment 1896264

 

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[Treasure_Hunter]

How is anyone going to know how something was lost?

 

[ticndig]

How is anyone going to know how something was lost?

the same way we would know who owned it. ?

 

[bradyboy]

pics - not attachments please
many of us wont open attachments - for security reasons
sorry
brady

 

[villagenut]

It was lost by a little boy playing marbles with two buddies. After losing to buddy number two, buddy number one threw this marble, barely missing the boy who owned them. He spent 20 minutes looking for it but gave up after his mom called him home supper..........

 

[Red-Coat]

It was lost by a little boy playing marbles with two buddies. After losing to buddy number two, buddy number one threw this marble, barely missing the boy who owned them. He spent 20 minutes looking for it but gave up after his mom called him home supper..........

I'm impressed by your investigative skills, but you ducked the crucial question... is it a reproduction?

 

[jeff of pa]

Definitely lost by a kid Who Like Marbles.
Maybe he had a Pocket full ,

It's always Fun to wonder Who & How.

 

[gunsil]

Marble is glass as are most marbles. It is a machine made marble, no older than the 1920s so no, it could not have belonged to anybody in the 1800s when marbles were hand made and not perfectly spherical. Please, please stop asking how things were lost, nobody can answer that question. Don't ask who owned any items, unless item has a name on it nobody can tell you who owned any item found. And once more why do you ask if items are reproductions on every post. We are not sure what you mean by "reproduction".

 

[ticndig]

someone has lost his marbles ,can anyone tell me who .

 

[jeff of pa]

Bart In spite of what some say, You can ask any questions you want

It's obvious you are really into the hobby !
and Yes some questions are impossible to answer but are always fun to wonder ./

 

[jeff of pa]

btw try leaving a space between each picture in the future.
it may help with the pic posting issue

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Material is glass. It was lost through carelessness. Age? 1920's to present.

 

[Fat]

.... I pick up marbles when I spy them. I know around here in the olden days a homesteader child would pick up an arrowhead and go to the general store on Saturday and trade for some candy and a few marbles. They are the first in a long line of junk that is for sale by cash registers, not that there junk, just the times

 

[crashbandicoot]

Just wondering,not criticising anyone but why get all worked up because the guy asked some interesting questions?Yep,not really any way to answer them conclusively but I for one enjoy thinking about the points he asked about.I,m 69 years old but thankfully I,ve not lost that sense of wonder I had as a kid,and the curiosity about things around me.i hope I never do.just a thought.

 

[villagenut]

I must confess, I will sit and stare at the artifact just dug for quite a while, be it a button,roundball,coin, or any other random thing......just wondering who it was that once owned it and how they lost it. To me, it's quite intriguing and i cant wait for it to happen next time. But i know i will never have those answers, they are part of our imagination, although much conjecture, it is often better than no story at all........thats the story behind my answer to your question. You just have to make it your story

 

[ticndig]

I bet many marbles were lost when used as slingshot ammo. I used to shoot them with a wrist rocket to hunt rabbit as a young boy.

 

[villagenut]

And as for me....I lost my marbles a long long time ago, according to my wife. This hobby can do that to you

 

[Doubter in MD]

Just wondering,not criticising anyone but why get all worked up because the guy asked some interesting questions?Yep,not really any way to answer them conclusively but I for one enjoy thinking about the points he asked about.I,m 69 years old but thankfully I,ve not lost that sense of wonder I had as a kid,and the curiosity about things around me.i hope I never do.just a thought.

It's likely a spillover reaction from a different thread where Bartshop was unnecessarily rude to another poster.

You can obviously ask any question that doesn't violate posting rules, but I see nothing wrong with pointing out that some of Bartshop's questions are unanswerable, while some others are unfathomable. What does "reproduction" mean in the context of a marble or a disc brake pad? Questioning what's meant by that is perfectly reasonable.

I will give him props for enthusiasm, but his follow through seems lacking so far.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Bart In spite of what some say, You can ask any questions you want

It's obvious you are really into the hobby !
and Yes some questions are impossible to answer but are always fun to wonder ./

While you CAN ask as many questions as you want, you WILL get better answers if you focus on questions that people could plausible answer. The discussions in your threads are getting sidetracked by certain....umm....types of questions.

I suggest continuing to post your finds so we can all learn from them.

I don’t see any pictures, so I can’t comment on the initial questions.

 

[ecmo]

While you CAN ask as many questions as you want, you WILL get better answers if you focus on questions that people could plausible answer. The discussions in your threads are getting sidetracked by certain....umm....types of questions.

I suggest continuing to post your finds so we can all learn from them.

I don’t see any pictures, so I can’t comment on the initial questions.

Photos are up and they're of a marble. ::sad smiley::