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

 

[duffytrash]

great find!! isee vitro-peltier and akros[the corkscrew types]..alldefinatly good...i dfont see any vaneered type so that dates em berfore 1950 imho...prob early to mid 40s....if i was you id get em in a shoe box or cigar box or sumptinj...every tic you hear when you roll the jar around damages the mibs...all in all good find 2-5$ each....

 

[dfxer]

Makes you wonder how they forgot where they buried something like that, there very coool

 

[Detectingfreak]

Thats an awesome find!!!!!!!!

 

[P.B. and Dylan]

Fantastic find.

I would be real happy with that find.

Paul

 

[Swingit]

Now Thats Cool
HH!!
Swingit

 

[crazyjarhead]

Very nice find. There are some collector's in there and worth some bucks. I would be happy to find something like that

 

[fireman4youu]

That just too cool. Ive came across a few barried jars, however they all seem to be cracked in place. last one contained bits of paper, just dry-rotted crumbles. No telling what it might have contained at one point.
Nice Job.
Z

 

[N.J.THer]

Great find...I love finding marbles although to date I've only found one at a time. Congrats

NJ

 

[Ray S ECenFL]

Not only did you make a great find, but the series of pictures is outstanding. Thanks for sharing. Yes Banner.

Ray S

 

[mojjax]

Wow ! I found one the other day ..... I was quite happy . You found the mother Load !!!!!

 

[Old River]

Very nice finds. I know you were thrilled.

 

[Nana40]

WoW! That is too cool!! A whole collection in one dig!

That bumblebee...I've found one and seems it's a favorite of my two G'son's. :P They will fuss over who's going to get to keep it.

Awesome find!!!

Nana

 

[mojjax]

That bumblebee...I've found one and seems it's a favorite of my two G'son's. :P They will fuss over who's going to get to keep it.

Awesome find!!!

Nana

Yup .....My eyes were drawn to that one first !

 

[pegleglooker]

Fantastic Find !!!!!!!!!! AWESOME !!!!!

PLL

 

[Michiganne]

Wow, what a neat find! If you don't sell them all I hope you display them.

HH
p.s. Great pics, too!

 

[kdismuke1]

NICE FIND.

 

[Newt]

Great find!
Newt

 

[texan connection]

That is freaking cool!!!!

 

[Gilligan]

Incredible find Glenn! Bryan

 

[zaxfire69]

I showed my son this thread. He said "Daddy you need to find me a jar like that wiff all doe's marbles." Those deserve the banner. I vote yes.