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July 23rd is National Marble Day. There is much more to these little spheres than you might think. Although the game of marbles was originally played by children, it grew into a fun pastime for adults as well. There are treasure hunts to find special marbles; collectors seek out old marbles as well as the beautiful creations of modern glass makers.

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Marbles have been used for play for thousands of years. In ancient Rome, nuts were used as game pieces. These were eventually replaced by clay balls. However, clay was easily worn or chipped. Marbles made from marble or other stones were produced by powered mills in 17th century Germany [Incidentally, the word marble is derived from the German word “for the rock”]. Glass marbles ultimately came into being around the middle of the 1800’s. It is believed that they were first created by glassmakers who shaped bits of leftover glass at the end of the day to take home for their children. However, it was not long before the process was automated with factories turning out large quantities.

Uses of Glass Marbles

Marbles are not only for games. The mixing ball in a can of spray paint is a marble. They are also used in air and water filtration systems. They make up the reflective letters on road signs and have been used in NASA weather balloons.

Most glass marbles are made commercially today in an automated process. The raw materials used for marbles include sand, soda lime, silica, and other materials for color. Scrap glass, cullet, is often included or even the primary ingredient. The materials are combined in a furnace and heated at 2300 °F for 24 hours or longer. The liquid glass moves to a flow tank from which small globs of glass are released and then cut to size. These small globs roll down ramps and into grooved rollers that create spheres from the globs and cool the molten glass. After completely cooling, the marbles are sorted and packaged.

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Marbles have numerous industrial uses as well—they are the noise inside a can of spray paint and the translucent letters and numbers on a road sign. Marbles are also melted down to make fiberglass, used in automotive bodies and draperies.

Early games used balls made of stone such as marble, hence the name. Glass marbles were called steelies. Clay marbles were called commoneys. Brown marbles were called stonies and alabaster marbles were called allies.

Antique glass marbles are highly collectible, and the types range from handmade examples from German glassmakers of the 1800s to U.S. machine-made marbles of the early and mid-1900s. Most antique handmade glass marbles found today come from Germany

A clambroth marble is made of hard and soft glass and features an opaque base with swirls of eight to eighteen bands/strands equally spaced a part. This marble is a very rare find and can be worth quite a lot money.

The thickness of the glass means that while they can still be broken, they can also bear the brunt of the force of a normal game of marbles and live to tell the tale