”When I showed people the marbles I kept in my jewelry box, they laughed,” said Beverly Brule, of Marble Collectors Unlimited in Northboro, Mass. ”A couple of years ago, when you asked an antiques ...

Did you know that marbles are considered one of today's top collectibles? Many people around the globe have come back to collecting glass marbles, the most common of marbles, in huge jars. Then clay, ...

The Boston Globe reports on seaglass enthusiasts who are having online drama in Facebook groups. The rift is over "seeded" marbles. Those are ones purposely tossed into the ocean so they can be ...

Corkscrews, cat's eyes, Popeyes, tigers, parrots, oxbloods, onionskins, and ketchup and mustards — welcome to the wonderful world of marbles. To the uninitiated, these are just a few of the types of ...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. - Howard Powell scales the mounds of rubble at the former Akro Agate factory site, occasionally bending over to pick up a glass marble that catches his eye. He never knows what he’ll ...

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, ...

I have a small basket full of antique clay marbles that I love and so do my granddaughters. It’s the uneven shapes and the colors — dark-blue cobalt, brown or red glazes — that have attracted me to ...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va.- Howard Powell scales the mounds of rubble at the former Akro Agate factory site, occasionally bending over to pick up a glass marble that catches his eye. He never knows what he?ll ...

“When I showed people the marbles I kept in my jewelry box, they laughed,” said Beverly Brule, of Marble Collectors Unlimited in Northboro, Mass. “A couple of years ago, when you asked an antique ...

Some of life’s greatest pleasures come to us as children and never really leave. A fresh box of 64 crayons would still have the power to draw smiles from adults of a certain stripe, as would this jar ...

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