I have lost my marbles!

[Donna Hubbard]

I really can't get out and about right now to search yard sales, flea markets etc., so I am confined to Ebay. Well, I am Southern (yes capitalized), so mainly interested in Southern objects, though I do have 1 Griswold, and 2 small Wagner skillets. And I think 1 unmarked Wagner. (Fed dogs for 11 years in it, then racoons for 5 years, then it cleaned up wonderfully. Well, I saw these marbles on Ebay. I just HAD to have them. That spider marble was so cool. So I purchased 30 marbles (a set I guess). They all relate to Wagner, Griswold, and Wapak. Spent $57 dollars, which seems crazy to me for a bunch of marbles. but we know women can be crazy. I live with my 87-year-old father. (Last men/women standing lol). He will not understand this. I hope he is gone when the mail comes, so that frankly I can lie about those "silly marbles" or that they don't put a receipt in the box. I have received so many boxes lately that he has started opening them. Thank goodness only one has had a receipt. He enjoys them as much as I do, but as we know some cost more than others, and if he knew what some cost, he may not enjoy them as much.My Marbles. P S Doug, if I am linking wrong let me know, because I am gonna link some items about Chattanooga foundries etc. And those obits, while it may sound morbid, give a massive amount of information about the companies! But I don't want to upload them, just links.

 

[SeanD]

I almost lost mine too. I thought about getting a few of them, but Id just lose them, lol....they are cool tho!

 

[Srinath Seshadri]

They're called Rolley ball in TN ? Or is that the game you play with marbles ? BTW in India we used to have these in soda bottles - like these - https://balasbroadcast.wordpress.com/2021/03/03/goli-soda/

Ignore the lemon, there's a tiny dark sphere just below that O ring at the mouth. That's the marble. These bottles are carbonated upside down, and the pressure is right when the pressure in the bottle+weight of the marble will close it off against the pressure in the line. I used to live across from a local manufacturer and he'd get these bottles back and those that were defective will get tossed out, we'd scramble to get our hands on these, break the bottles grind the bottle bodies into fine powder and coat kite strings to cut down other competitive kites, and use the marbles to play various versions of rolley ball. BTW this drink after nearly going extinct in the onslaught of coke and pepsi in the 90's now has been revived, with thinner bottles, smaller marbles and likely not as much wasteage. Welcome to the world of people losing their marbles.

BTW steel car wheel bearing balls are a near exact size and well, are steel. I quickly went to those, and found that due to the extra weight, I could shoot it slower and more accurately and hence win more easily.