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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

It’s around 10:30 on a Saturday morning and the small front room at Moon Marble Company in Bonner Springs is already getting crowded. Families with young children, a few teens and a few seniors are ...

Facebook group Gorge Glass of the Finger Lakes hides marbles so they can be found and kept. %22I%27d never really considered them a thing something that people would ...

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, ...

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 ...

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