The old house sites are a slurry of glass ... could still afford to purchase marbles. Even today, find a beautiful agate with a distinct pattern, and chances are the same house site is hiding ...

At Malvina L. Solomon`s antiques store in New York, collectors may be seen scurrying around the floor, on hands and knees, like children, playing with century-old marbles, before inspecting them ...

who has collected about 50,000 marbles. “I’m just interested in [digging for] them. It’s fun.” About a third of Roger and Claudia Hardy’s estimated 1-million-piece Akro Agate marble ...

William Deshields, a 9-year-old student ... porcelain marbles were "in." In the roaring 1920s, children were using shooters made of glass. By the 1950s, Germany's bull's-eye agate, a marble ...

Howard Powell scales the mounds of rubble at the former Akro Agate factory ... can find at old marble sites. He estimates he has dug up about 70 000 of the 200 000 marbles he ...

The couple has been hiding and hunting marbles for about six years ... National Park’s Bridalveil Fall and Yellowstone’s Old Faithful, but also in small towns like Wikieup, Arizona.