Marble cache

[Blak bart]

Was hunting in South carolina and came across a jar of marbles in a bottle dump. There were 40 in a small glass jar. All of them are in good condition, and they came from an old man named grover. Grover died a few years back, and they bulldozed the shack he lived in. His old place was on a 400 acre piece of land we use for hunting. Not sure what I got as far as there age, and was not super excited when I got them.....but now I really like this find and and am excited to have gotten it. They are all beautiful and I never got a yellow marble before !!

 

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[Blak bart]

 

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[Blak bart]

I'll take some out in the sun....they really light up out there.

 

[Gulf Coast Pirate]

Instant marble collection! Congrats!

 

[Blak bart]

Yup...thats the same thing I thought GCP !!

 

[Tpmetal]

I love marbles, but I find myself more curious to the story of this old man who lived in a shack who kept them all these years. Know anything else about Grovers story?

 

[Blak bart]

Well....I was hoping he may have had a cache of coins, and was looking pretty hard all around. So I asked and the story was he lived there for free, and watched and farmed the land. Its called Tennant farming, and at one point there was corn and melons and all sort of crops he grew. In return for no rent...Grover gave a potion of his crops to the land lord.....its similar to share cropping after the Civil War. But as grover got older the crops got less and less. So eventually we leased it to hunt on, and its well into planted pines now....not so many fields. So after grover died we had the place bull dozed and removed. I detected all over the grover site, and it's filled with trashy hits....grover liked Pepsi and the caps are every where😅🤣😂...Grover was poor, and the best I could muster was a questionable earring under the cloths line (that was still up). Here's a pic of the land from the hunting blind.

 

[Blak bart]

We had a cool trip and I was really prospecting for permission on the Civil War sites....we had fun metal detecting during the day, and hog hunting in the evening I got all kinds of permission but ddidn't get lucky enough to really get on any Civil War sites yet but were close for sure.

 

[Blak bart]

 

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[eyemustdigtreasure]

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Hey, those are pretty old marbles...!
Great Find...!

 

[cmthunder]

Awesome finds and story.

 

[WannaDig3687]

Some very good finds and I love your telling us a little about Grover. Great post, Bart!

 

[tamrock]

That's absolutely marblelous. Now don't you go and lose them

 

[Blak bart]

Well...to be honest I spilled them on the tile floor and WOW......these things went everywhere......just recovered the last one from under the fridge.....all 40 are accounted for !!🤣😂🤣

 

[Bamasteve]

Great finds Bart as usual! Keep it up brother for those of us that can’t get out as often as you!

 

[Blak bart]

Thank you steve....check out this red one in the sunlight....maybe this is the ox blood red they talk about !!

 

[Blak bart]

 

[Blak bart]

Another darker red