new here was doing some yard work and found 3 mibs
my find
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The top and right ones..
..look like Akro Agate. Maybe all three are. They're definately collectible. A quick way to compare your marbles to others is websearch 'antique marbles' on Ebay. I have six books covering antique marbles. A big problem is these authors giving lots of photos of the finest marbles in their collections. That's wonderful,but what about the marbles we're actually going to find? I'm as fascinated with a $2 or $3 marble as I am with a $500 marble. Have you looked around the old townsites surrounding the Salten Sea? And any of the once-thriving towns along the old Route 66? Marbles played with by kids in the desert during the 1930s got dropped into desert sand and lost. I make sure,after strong desert winds to walk thru certain formerly habited areas. Wind blows the sand away. Artifacts are left laying in open sight right on the surface. Marbles,coins,trinkets,etc. I have learned to let nature do most of the work for me. And I always check the piles of dirt where other people have dug for antique bottles,etc. I've found dozens of old marbles that've rolled down the dirt piles,discarded by diggers who thought them of no value.
..look like Akro Agate. Maybe all three are. They're definately collectible. A quick way to compare your marbles to others is websearch 'antique marbles' on Ebay. I have six books covering antique marbles. A big problem is these authors giving lots of photos of the finest marbles in their collections. That's wonderful,but what about the marbles we're actually going to find? I'm as fascinated with a $2 or $3 marble as I am with a $500 marble. Have you looked around the old townsites surrounding the Salten Sea? And any of the once-thriving towns along the old Route 66? Marbles played with by kids in the desert during the 1930s got dropped into desert sand and lost. I make sure,after strong desert winds to walk thru certain formerly habited areas. Wind blows the sand away. Artifacts are left laying in open sight right on the surface. Marbles,coins,trinkets,etc. I have learned to let nature do most of the work for me. And I always check the piles of dirt where other people have dug for antique bottles,etc. I've found dozens of old marbles that've rolled down the dirt piles,discarded by diggers who thought them of no value.
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sweet marbles !
