The humble marble has been around for millennia: smooth spheres of stone or clay or steel or glass, in the pockets and toy boxes of children around the world. It's a rare family household that doesn't ...

A German inventor created a device in 1846 that allowed for the mass production of colored glass marbles. American manufacturing of marbles boomed in the 1920s, with Ohio becoming a center for ...

If you’ve held onto old marbles from childhood or stumbled across a dusty jar in the attic, you might be wondering if they’re worth anything. Not all old marbles have high value, but certain handmade, ...

"Bumblebees" are yellow and black striped. "Jaspers" are common, blue marbles made from glazed or unglazed china. "Onionskins" are glass marbles with swirls of layered colors that extend over the ...

If you played marbles as a kid, you probably remember cat's eyes, steelies and boulders. But making marbles is also an art form, one that the Corning Museum of Glass will explore for children and ...

Snarkitecture is set to create an immersive installation for fashion brand COS in Seoul, which will see thousands of glass marbles travelling around a gallery. Snarkitecture, the New York-based studio ...

Do kids still play marbles? If memory serves, we drew a big circle in the dirt and used a shooter marble to knock smaller marbles out of the circle. The phrase “play for keeps” comes from the practice ...

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