One of the old tenant farm shack that I detected. Bone dice, cattle tags, and ring was found here.
I'm still puzzling about the marbles.
Egads there's a lot of sources.
The context of recovery site threw a wrench in my imagined kid squirreling them.
More like someone gathered glass before razing the ol timers shack to keep from leaving broken glass as debris. All speculation though.
IF and always if's , they were the sharecroppers in youth marble days of use his preteen years might be likely.
More if , he was early eighties when leaving site that'd bump my age of glass marbles nearer the 50's. But as with many things , the ol timer could have employed them at any age. A game of solitaire at home even.
Depression era prior , and WW2 hard on budgets and production. Leaving just a window in the 40's but the depression had a lot of folks very conservative in spending the rest of thier lives.
Evidenced by some stored piles of bottles , jugs, anything that might get reused.
A kid in the 50's had a better shot at a dime bag (no not that king of dimebag) of marbles.
But then marbles were not that pricy ( if available) for a gift. Not like a .22 for a wishful boy or a baseball glove or something.
You have a shooter/lagger. We called them boulders. It should show tiny amounts of damage if well used. Not counting drops. (Bart!). So the jar had enough of what was needed to be in the game.
Have you estimated a date range yet?
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