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 ...

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 ...

Many of our ancestors arrived from overseas with little more than the clothes on their backs and a dream under their hat. The immigrants arrived from across the ocean carrying their worldly ...

You can walk into the Buckeye Marble Show on Saturday for free, which is a very nice price, but you'll need $1,000 if you want to leave with a rare vintage purple-and-white horizontal swirled Navarre ...

You can walk into the Buckeye Marble Show on Saturday for free, which is a very nice price, but you'll need $1,000 if you want to leave with a rare vintage purple-and-white horizontal swirled Navarre ...

Childhood secrets are hiding in the dirt. Months after crops are harvested and fields stripped to bare brown, the slanted rays of morning or evening sunlight fire large circular patterns of crushed ...

Marbles tournaments have been held at the Jersey Shore almost as long as marbles have been mass produced. This year’s installment begins today and runs through Thursday at Wildwood Avenue and the ...

Two months ago, Judge Preston Grissom gave a talk to the Norfolk County Historical Society about the past archeological digs around the Great Bridge canal. In his presentation he talked about the ...