Falista

The other day I was talking to my dad and I mentioned the marble and how I came to this forum to find out more about it. He brought up that it was pretty common for people to use marbles in slingshots. So I think that answers my question about how it ended up way out in the middle of the woods. 😆

Very interesting! I figured it probably wasn't worth much money, but it has sentimental value so it's just nice knowing where it was made and what it's called. Mostly I wanted to know how old it is. I suspected it was probably older than me when I found it and if it was made sometime between the 1940s to 1960, it definitely is. It could even be older than my parents, who were born in the 1950s. It may have been laying half-buried in the woods out behind my childhood home for close to forty years before I found it!

Thank you all so much! Anyone have any idea how old it might be? One website dates this particular type as being made between 1950-1960. From what I have read, it appears to be machine made and not handmade, then?

A little backstory here. I know nothing about marbles. I found this one in the woods behind my family home when I was a teenager. It was partially buried in dirt next to some dead trees and rotten logs. It's kind of a miracle that I even noticed it. My brother and I and some of our friends were really the only kids that frequented the trails in these woods. The area where I found the marble was at least twenty feet away from the trail and we were probably about 1/2 mile away from any house. When I was growing up, I had been told there was once a small house out in the woods not too far from where I found the marble but that house was gone long before my parents bought our home in the 1970s. I recently came across this marble in my jewelry box. I kept it because I always thought it was weird that I found it way out there in the middle of nowhere. It has a little imperfection in the white area which I'm assuming is the pontil? It was hard to get a good picture of it, but you can see it from the side as a little indentation. It's kind of a widened "U" shape. Just curious to know what it might be.