Have I Lost My Marbles?

[bdahunter]

Over the past year a lot of these babies have shown up in the bottom of my scoop while I am retrieving targets. I know I'm not detecting them (at least I think I'm not) but it's odd to keep finding them.
My neighbour says that the marbles were used in the old soda bottles to activate the soda. Just how this worked is beyond me and before my time.
Any thoughts on the matter??

BDA

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[CC2_IN_CA]

Don't know how to judge marbles,
but do know vintage marbles can have alot of value.

You might want to try to do some research on them.

 

[bdahunter]

I just checked out E-Bay and the marbles there start at $10 a pop and go up to $50 a marble. Holy Cow!! To think I used to use marbles in my slingshot to shoot at my buddies when we were just kids. They left a nasty welt too!
Time to get myself a marble detector.

BDA

 

[BEACH HUNTER]

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[AllenOK]

but then, now that I'm down here in OK, I tend to hunt the "Urban Renewal" areas, when a house gets demolished, and the yard scraped. Any time that dirt is moved in an old neighborhood, I go look. If it rains, even better, as the rain washes the dirt on the surface and exposes the marbles that are there. Heck, last Saturday, I found NINETEEN marbles, seventeen of them from one site!

Here's one of my favorite sites for marbles:
http://www.marblealan.com/

Here soon I'm going to try to get a pic of the marbles I found last weekend.

 

[Macaco]

My father and I have a shipwreck that we found off the North Coast of California that was a big sailing ship carrying a 1000 tons of general cargo. It sank in 1891.

Part of the cargo was obviously marbles because there are hundreds of them in the sand around the wreck. I just ignored them. Now I think I'll collect as many of them I can. Could be some valuable ones.

 

[fieldboy]

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[PaPa-Joe-Fla.]

dba the same day (I think April 6th.)that they had the kites flying in Bermuda there was also a group teaching how to play marbles on the beach. I believe it was on Elbow Beach that I read about, so maybe there were some on the beach you were hunting also. And yes there are marbles worth allot of money up into the thousands, but those are very rare. My wife worked at an antique auction for 8 years and I remember some selling up in the hundreds of dollars.