HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MARBLES??!!

[gxray]

Saturday I was going to help a friend hang a drywall ceiling in a circa 1904 house he is restoring (13 ft high cathedral ceiling...ugh). I had scanned the yard with my metal detector a few days earlier and found some zincolns, a 1940's toy fire engine and a printing plate that i posted in the " what is it " forum. Anyway, I arrived a bit early and while i was waiting for my friend to arrive I gave the yard another quick 15 min scan and got a non-ferrous reading near the property line. I dug down 8 or 10 inches and found a mason jar lid. I went to pick it up and it wouldn't move. It was still attatched to the jar. I carefully dug around the lid then gave it a little twist and it easily unscrewed off. Imagine my surprise when i saw it was full to the top with old marbles. I managed to dig around the jar and extract the jar intact. I know little about marbles but visited the Marble collecting forum to perhaps get an idea what they might be worth ,,I still have no clue. I started wondering what else might be buried in the yard so I scanned a bit more and got another signal...turned out to be a copper pipe...this yard is loaded with trash and overgrowth but after he gets the yard cleaned out ,,,,I'll try again. Thanx for looking and HH

 

[shaun7]

i bet that had you wondering when you first realized the jar was there too

shame it wasn't gold coins!

nice find though

 

[gxray]

Those were my exact thoughts. I kept telling my friend ..."maybe there's a bottle of coins within the marbles"

 

[ray in ny]

That is a great find. My grandkids would have freaked if I dug up something like that. Way to go.

 

[RPG]

Those were my exact thoughts. I kept telling my friend ..."maybe there's a bottle of coins within the marbles"

You may not need a bottle of coins. Some of those old marbles are worth a pretty penny.

Give the guys on the marble forum a bit and they will respond.

A whole jar of marbles is a very good find.

Randy

 

[gxray]

I posted a link to this thread in the marble forum

 

[Deno]

That is just to cool.

 

[Marc(NB)]

I like "em!!

 

[allen]

those are some beautiful marbles !!!!

 

[nova]

That cash//jar of marbles deserves to be on the BANNER============= NUFF SAID

 

[thrillathahunt]

Your Ball Perfect Mason jar looks to be the 1933-1960 type with an older zinc and porcelin lid. The marbles look like the kinds TC and I found at an old Calvert, Texas store dig.

Nice!

 

[ModernMiner]

Now that is a cool find. I love old marbles, and those are some beauties! Congrats on a super find. That Ball jar itself is amazing too.
Get a hold of TN member Duffytrash to ID them for you. He is the man when it comes to marbles.
-MM-

 

[ringfinder]

That find is so Cooooooooooooool, Congrats of a Very neat find.

HH, Ringfinder

 

[ramfan]

Awesome!!!! I love marbles! Great find.

Darrell

 

[whitesPA]

great find . a little kids stach. cool find

 

[pookie-princess of rust]

nice marbles 8)

 

[Moonshadow]

As Bill Cosby once said........"First you say it, then you do it!!" Oh %$#@%^! I think I would have cried...no really! I love marbles.....just don't know that much about them except they can be worth some bucks! Hope yours are worth alot.....Awesome find!

HH,
Moon

 

[outlaw007]

what a great find

 

[STH69]

That is so cool, nice find!

 

[Monty]

I see you have one that is yellow with a black swirl or vice versa. One just like it was my shooting marble when I was a kid. I called it my "Bumble Bee". I was the 5th and 6th grade champ at my grade school, two years running and that old Bumble Bee gave me a psychological edge as everyone feared it. It finally got so chipped from hard shots that I had to retire it. Gosh, what memories. If you ever want to sell that one let me know. It would be put on display among my treasures. Monty