marbles

[maureen]

Hello everyone...
We are curious about the name of large marbles, the ones we used to play with in the 50's and 60's. Please let me know as this is a daunting question for us.
thank you

Maureen
and hello to all my treasure net buddies !! we are doing well, Saber and I

 

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[MetalFury]

Hey all...here's a picture of some marbles I've recently found. There's kind of a cool story behind this...The apartment I live in is one of Four apts in my building. There's 2 downstairs and 2 up (I live in one of the downstairs ones) The building was built in 1901 and use to be a single family house...a LARGE one! Anyway, there was water leaking from the upstairs apt. and part of the ceiling collapsed in my kitchen. I noticed a marble had fallen down with the part of ceiling and I saw a couple others above the wooden slats where the plaster connects to. Before I called the landlord to come fix it I got up there with a flashlight and found all the marbles in the pic. Don't know how old they might be....anyone have any ideas?

 

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[Ant]

I'd say your marbles are from the late 50 early 60's, except for the speckled ones. They look sort of like clay marbles. The dude at this site can give you an expert answer. Nice marbles by the way.

http://www.collectiblemarbles.com/

 

[Ant]

Now that I look at your marbles closer they look like they are much older than I estimated. Contact the guy at the link I posted.

Most of these marbles that I eyeballed while detecting are form the early 50's and 60's, but I have a few newer ones in there. The ones you have look much older and might be worth bookoo bucks.

HH

 

[willytrav]

I'm from Minnesota and I think the boys used to call some of their marbles aggies. Anyone hear of them? I can't for the life of me remember what they looked like tho. I only had glimpses of them cuz I was a girl! Lol!! I am going to find a metal detector to buy and was wondering what would be best for our soil and river banks here. Thanx for listening.
Wilma

 

[AKiwi]

So many posts, I may have missed it, but....... anybody know how marbles were made or are made?
Always puzzled me as they are so round, and as for the cats eye...

 

[AU24K]

Clay marbles are called "benningtons".
Scott

 

[Montana Jim]

So many posts, I may have missed it, but....... anybody know how marbles were made or are made?
Always puzzled me as they are so round, and as for the cats eye...

http://www.wisegeek.com/how-are-glass-marbles-made.htm

 

[stefen]

We had some marbles that we called 'Snotties'...somewhat similar to the tapeworms...

Probably the same marble but different common names depending on the region.

 

[downindixie]

When I was of marble playing age and mischievous we would take the clearies out of the headlight hood on the old cars in our area.The purpose of the clearies on the headlight hood would reflect the light letting the driver know that his headlights were on,plus they looked cool! We mostly played pigtails and bullseye! Hard down greetie bones knucks,folks

 

[texan connection]

I was the school marble shooting champ in sixth grade and we played all kinds of marble games including the ones mentioned. The rules were a little different. We were forbidden from playing "keeps" but we did anyway. Just before I went into seventh grade (Junior High) I thought I had reached manhood and decided to give all my marbles away. I had a cardboard box with I don't know how many marbles in it, I stopped counting at 13,000. It was so heavy I could barely lift it. Anyway I took it to school and at recess I threw them out on the school ground and watched the kids scramble for them. I nearly cause a recess riot and I had to go to the principals office. He asked me how I got all those marbles and I told him I won them. I then got a stern lecture on the evils of gambling and he kept what was left of my box of marbles. He told me my Dad would have to come in to get them back, but I was afraid to tell Dad I was in the principals office, so I guess he kept them? It made me wonder what was worse, gambling or stealing. I think stealing to this day. Monty
Oh, I plum forgot what this post was about. We just called them big marbles and didn't particularly like them because they were too big and awkward to use as shooters in our small hands. M

Titled "How Monty lost his Marbels"

 

[spartan69cs]

A friend of mine has about 500 old marbles.