Found today

[HAPPYCAMPER]

Got out to detect for first time this year,went to cellar hole here in North central Mass.,friend made a sifting screen this year to do around the holes if heavy with nails and gave a try and found this marble and thought I would let you all see it.Cellar hole on early 1800s map but no idea about age of these types of marbles.

 

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[drizzlermibs]

Wicked cool; but no idea. How heavy is it?

 

[HAPPYCAMPER]

Scale says 3 grams,not a jewelers scale so not sure how accurate on small items,weighed a newer marble and that comes in at 5 grams.

Wicked cool; but no idea. How heavy is it?

 

[HAPPYCAMPER]

Not perfectly round but close,homemade clay marble?

 

[Carolina Tom]

Yes... it's a clay marble! And a nice one at that. Children's choice prior to the invention of mass produced glass marbles in 1915. That marble was certainly made in the 1800s.

I'm a bit jealous, as I've never found one.

Well done sir!

 

[cheese]

Cool find! It's hard to date clay marbles, they were made by the billions in America from the 1880s until the 1950s. Before that, they were made overseas for centuries.