Collecting Marbles - The Joy of Marbles
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Spotlight on Marble Mania
Marble Mania
Amazon Price: $72.47 (as of 02/17/2012)
The hobby of marble collecting is still in its infancy, with plenty of room for growth in all areas and for new collectors. Marble Maniar is the definitive photographic guide to collecting. This book incorporates over 1,300 color photographs, as well as an in-depth text covering the main areas of interests and information on marble manufacturers.
Spotlight on Big Book of Marbles
Everett Grist's Big Book of Marbles
Amazon Price: $47.50 (as of 02/17/2012)
Many new color photographs showcasing thousands of machine-made and contemporary marbles have been added to make this book an even bigger Big Book of Marbles. This third edition brings marble collectors even more information, with added discussion on marbles at auctions, art glass and new comics, and listings of marble clubs. Grist has also drawn from one of his other books, Machine-Made & Contemporary Marbles, for this new edition.
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Spotlight on Marble Collectors Handbook
Marble Collectors Handbook
Amazon Price: $12.70 (as of 02/17/2012)
Over 580 beautiful color photos display a stunning array of contemporary handmade and design marbles by a variety of talented artists, along with handmade, and machine-made examples. Swirl, Clambroth, Banded Opaque, Indian, Lutz, End of Day, and Single-gather handmade marble designs are featured, along with machine-made examples by M.F. Christensen & Son, Christensen Agate, Akro Agate, Peltier, Master Marble, Marble King, Ravenswood, and Vitro Agate.
Blog Posts on Marbles
- Marietta store carries a trainload of toys
- by Charlotte Ferrell Smith Rock Wilson, owner of Whipple's Whimsical Toys in Marietta, Ohio, is surrounded by inventory in one of two railroad cars filled with nostalgic toys. Wilson, who lives in Pennsboro, W.Va., will open his shop on weekends ...
- Hot Wheels Marble Run
- By Andy Robertson I've always liked making toys multifunctional. In fact my kids often seem to have more fun making up their own uses for them than they do playing with them in the ?official? manner. Take the Skylanders figures for example: they had ...
- Power Play: Toys You Can Bring to the Office
- I saw the world through a camera on Interactive Toy Concepts' Wi-Spi Helicopter, which is controlled with an iPad. I would have crashed that too, if the demonstrator wasn't standing by to assist. And I unleashed marbles into the Q-BA-MAZE maze of ...
- Playing with marbles par for course for student
- She's writing her senior thesis on the subject of toy marbles recovered from late-19th-century backyards and outhouses in the Irish and German community of north St. Louis, once known as Kerry Patch. The present-day location puts it a few blocks north ...
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The Marble Guestbook
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Tipi
Jul 30, 2011 @ 8:07 am | delete
- We always looked forward to spring in grade school to get to play marbles. Now I wish I had been a collector as well, who would have thought that some marbles would become valuable. Once, an older kid won all my marbles and my sister went and cleaned him out, guess he thought she would be an easy mark too.
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OhMe
Jun 19, 2011 @ 4:59 am | delete
- My grandson was with me in a local antique store and spotted a bag of marbles for $5. I don't guess he had ever had any so we purchased them and came home and I taught him how to play. It just never occurred to me that he hadn't ever played marbles.
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webnh
Jun 19, 2011 @ 8:54 am | delete
- Thanks for stopping by and I know what you mean. I am always surprised when I see kids sitting outside and playing video games and never see them playing marbles.
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Cumberland
Apr 16, 2011 @ 4:02 pm | delete
- I began playing with marbles in the 1950s and still pick up a few occasionally. Thanks for the lens.
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LarryBass
Oct 19, 2008 @ 9:01 am | delete
- I'm not a big Marble guy but I do have a few stashed around here somewhere. :-) This is Some Cool Marble Lens you've crafted here Webnh! What a Fine example to us budding Squiders, of how-to build a Lens that Rules! It's certainly no wonder, why You are a Giant and and Angel and... :-)
Oh ya, where's your fan club link for me to join? :-)
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