bennington marble

A large blue glazed ceramic marble. Known as a Bennington Marble, they were imported to the USA from Germany in the later half of the 19th century.

Was digging at one of my spots today and unearthed this big blue ceramic marble. It is 1.25 inches in size, and is the largest clay marble I have ever found. These big salt-glazed clay marbles were made in Imperial Germany by the millions starting in the 1870's. They came in several colors...

Greetings Treasure Hunters! This weeks hunt involved both digging AND picking... Our permission was a construction site that had much of the original yard scraped off. This exposed 1800's silver coinage and also vintage marbles, toys and other cool relics. We also located a very old large...