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Found these in a old sock/bag in a attic the four to the right of the bowl were wrapped separately for some reason.......
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Solid and clear marbles have both been made at the same time for over a century. Both are still made today. Out-of-round marbles or defects on marbles doesn't indicate age either. The majority of the marbles shown are post 1930. The painted clays are maybe 10-30 years prior to that. Yes, there were clay marbles for hundreds of years, but not those pictured. They were making these on machines that produced 1000 per hour in the first half of the 20th century in Ohio. Similar ones were coming by ship from Germany along in the same time frame. Bubbles in glass might be an indicator of age, but not with marbles. The old marbles of the 1800s had far fewer bubbles than the machine mades from the first half of the 1900s.