”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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DECATUR - The Akro Oxblood Slags sound like they should be members of a refugee punk rock band from the 1970s. They are, in fact, a group of very pretty collectible marbles, and chances are you can ...

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 ...