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Re: Then people started giving me marbles.... -- Carole | Post Reply | Edit | Forum | Where am I? |
The marbles are all mid 20th century, I believe. I discovered the source of many of them one day while working among the vegetables. I heard the neighbor's teenage son lobbing small objects over the fence with a badminton racket, and the swoosh and click as they hit tree leaves and branches. Later I found several clean, fresh marbles lying in the dirt. Others of my garden marbles look older and more battered.
Some other marbles in my collection were found on the street or the park or while camping... the criteria is that there had to be found on the ground. I don't buy marbles generally, except for a really big hand made one I bought last week at a thrift store.
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