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[RED Matthews]

Hello Digswithstick and diggincajun: I have seen a lot of posts about marbles, and I have a couple little books on marbles. I have a very old wooden box with stone marbles in it. I played a lot of marbles back in 1940 and 41. I have some in a box that I don't know much about. I have watched marbles being made at a factory in Illinois, and at a glass factory in Italy. Corning Glass in Corning NY had a tower wher they dropped glass to make marbles and I saw a tower out in the midwest where they formed lead shot. But, I guess I have no knowledge of the objective of empontilling a marble. If you could please advise me on where I could gain some insite into this early method of making and marking marbles in the process of manufacture, I would apprecieate some information. RED Matthews

 

[Digswithstick]

Hi Red M ,i enjoy all your posts on glass making ! I do not know much about marble making but there are a couple web sites you could check out http://www.landofmarbles.com/ & http://www.marblealan.com/they have some good info i had not had chance to read much of it ther are links from these sites also that might help . Thanks again for your informative posts ,if you find some good info let me know as i collect marbles .