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[Bamasteve]

Afternoon everybody, been running the rainy windy roads through south Indiana and northern Kentucky today. It was quite the adventure.

 

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[Blak bart]

Marbles by Akro Agate Company

Description and images of marbles made by the Akro Agate Company

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[Blak bart]

I believe I've fallen down the marble rabbit hole !!🤣😂🤣😁😁

 

[ARC]

Well when you get done with those marbles...

i have a jar full of old ones you can go through next.

 

[ARC]

Anyway... i am off... another long day ahead... and another after that.

G night... steady as she goes.

c u n a.m

 

[Blak bart]

Marbles by Peltier Glass Company

Description and images of marbles made by the Pelteir Glass Company

www.marblecollecting.com

 

[releventchair]

I believe I've fallen down the marble rabbit hole !!🤣😂🤣😁😁

For cryin out loud Bart!
You're a grown asrse man to be playin with marbles.

 

[DanMcG]

Good morning Gang

Best of luck to ya this weekend Blossom, try to find me some gold please

 

[ARC]

G morn T Crew.

 

[Blak bart]

Good morning cappy.

 

[Blak bart]

 

[Blak bart]

One of the old tenant farm shack that I detected. Bone dice, cattle tags, and ring was found here.

 

[releventchair]

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?

How to Play Marbles at Home (Rules and Variations)

Learn how to play the traditional game of marbles with our guide explaining the rules, field setup, equipment, and game variations.

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[releventchair]

Mornin all.

 

[FRRichard]

Well what a day to be alive! rain, cold, rain, cold, sunshine, rain, chilly, another wonderful day in VA.

 

[DanMcG]

Welcome FRR!

 

[Pick_axe]

I think I may have struck (permission) gold! I delivered a print job to the local historical society yesterday. In the course of conversation I asked for permission to hunt some local historical sites. They said yes!
Not only that, I got more print work in the process.
Sometimes things just fall in your lap.

 

[Evan in CA]

Good morning all

 

[DanMcG]

mornin Evan!