Marble cache

[unclemac]

i have a friend that just got back from Aruba. She was taken to a remote islet to beachcomb and was told she couldn't take any shells but she could take all the glass she wanted, including marbles. It turns out that at some point in the past thousands of marbles were dumped off shore and if you snorkel you can find them by the handful. The fellow that took her out there (teenager) had found over 1,500 over time.

 

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[cheese]

I bet that was fun to find!
The "blue azurite" thing is not real, it's an attempt to fool a newbie into spending money on common marbles.

 

[Blak bart]

I'm very pleased cheese....im having a fantastic time becoming a marble head.....incredible amount of info out there to absorb.

 

[cheese]

They don't match your other finds by timeline though. They aren't as old.

 

[Blak bart]

That makes sense.....my finds came from 3 or 4 separate spots. The marble spot was the newer of the spots. What time frame do think these marbles are from @cheese ??

 

[sc arrow]

Was hunting in South carolina and came across a jar of marbles in a bottle dump. There were 40 in a small glass jar. All of them are in good condition, and they came from an old man named grover. Grover died a few years back, and they bulldozed the shack he lived in. His old place was on a 400 acre piece of land we use for hunting. Not sure what I got as far as there age, and was not super excited when I got them.....but now I really like this find and and am excited to have gotten it. They are all beautiful and I never got a yellow marble before !!

Pretty neat stuff. I recently found one of those glass electrical insulators but the base was broken off. I live in SC as well near Hampton county. Where is this area you are talking about?

 

[Blak bart]

Ulmer s.c. very small farming town !!

 

[sc arrow]

Ulmer s.c. very small farming town !!

Wow. The insulator I found was in Ulmer near the old ruined Interstate truck stop building on Hwy 301. I found a few arrow points near there as well. I live about 25 miles south of Ulmer.

 

[cheese]

Those are JABO classics made in the 1990s.

 

[scruggs]

Would look good in a glass case!