HISTORY

[Chad G.]

Well, when did you start marble collecting ?? what ?? why ?? and who got you started. You can include your favorite type if you like. I started in the mid 80's, German handmades were my go to, my Mother gave me the spark as a child when she gave me her favorite shooter, I still have it from when she gave it to me in the late 60's during a move.

                                

                                

[Tommy]

I started collecting in 2020 when I inherited my uncle's marbles they were in jugs and old big bottles,  a gumball machine .with no job I took a deep dive into marbles here and was welcomed and the knowledge shared here and within this site ihas changed me imto a marble head 4 ever

My favorite are American machine made marbles. 

This is where it began with this hoard collected by my grandmother and given to my uncle .then to me ...

 

[cheese]

It started for me in the mid 1980s. Maybe 85 or so. I was visiting my grandparents and my mother went up in the attic and found her old marbles from when she was a kid. There were marbles from the early 1960s on back to turn of the century. I collected anything you can imagine, and knowing they were old interested me. Then when we were at a local antique store, I noticed the owner had some marbles in a case behind the desk. I asked him about them and he loved how much I was interested, so he started telling me about those cool corkscrews I liked so much and others. He sold me a few as I could afford them and I was totally hooked. I asked for old marbles everywhere I went. I thought I had it bad back then... lol if I only knew. But it's just fun, what really matters isn't made of glass.