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

 

[treasurefiend]

I LOVE finding marbles (only found 5 or 6 so far) but an entire jar filled to the top is just flat out AWESOME!!!!! That was prolly some kids "treasure" and for that I voted for the Banner too!!! Great find and hopefully when the yard is cleaned up from the debres you can find more treasure!!!!

 

[DMN]

Now how cool a find is that? Maybe not the same as finding a jar of gold coins but still a great find. I used to bury stuff when I was a kid too. Forgot a lot of places I hid things in and I bet someone will find them just like this. An excellent find on its own! Seems like a worthy banner nomination.

 

[prolab69]

Thats Awesome, I see a few big shooters in there, I only found one that was stuck in the heating vent when i baught my van. Sure, ill vote banner for it.

 

[Gilligan]

By the way, I bet some of those are worth some money too. I know back in the day, sometimes they would make marbles out of genuine agate and so on. Looks like you might have at least one of those from what I can see. Do a google search on marble collecting and see what some of the prices they are getting for various marbles. Perhaps you can match some of yours up. Bryan

 

[chemist100]

I must say, that is one heck of a find IMO. I usually don't vote banner for finds but that is too cool!!!!!!!!!

 

[history hunter]

Very nice hoard of marbles!! It must have been a thrill seeing that jar in the bottom of your hole. You know, maybe the kids saw their parents burying a mason jar of silver coins and they decided to bury there own treasure. Check it out more if you can.

 

[twistidd]

I LOVE finding marbles (only found 5 or 6 so far) but an entire jar filled to the top is just flat out AWESOME!!!!! That was prolly some kids "treasure" and for that I voted for the Banner too!!! Great find and hopefully when the yard is cleaned up from the debres you can find more treasure!!!!

I agree, and I gotta say, that adding those pictures really adds a lot to the post. I vote banner too, because I haven't seen anything marble-related there, and this certainly qualifies.

Joe

 

[Jason in TN]

Very cool another banner vote from me. Did you find any value on them yet?

 

[Gilligan]

I, too, am going to vote banner Glenn. Seems that your post has received new life!

 

[BuckleBoy]

At $2 to $5 each, I believe we need some Marbles on the banner.

 

[kansastide]

Definitely some nice marbles there. Some easy to identify corkscrews and it looks like you might have a couple popeye's. I didn't see any superman marbles in the lot, but they are definitely a nice little collection. Congrats!

 

[72cheyenne]

What a sweet find. I have been picking up marbles (eyeball and detecting hole finds) for years and only have about 1/3 of a quart jar full. You go out and find a full Jar!!! I vote Banner too.....simply amazing.

 

[Newt]

I like these.
Newt