Hello,

Two sources that I might add as useful are:

Carskadden, Jeff and Richard Gartley
1990	Chinas: Hand-Painted Marbles of the Late 19th Century.  McClain Printing Company, Parsons, West Virginia.

Gartley, Richard and Jeff Carskadden
1987	Marbles From an Irish Channel Cistern, New Orleans, Louisiana. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Ohio Valley Urban and Historic Archaeology, Vol. 5, edited by Donald Ball and Philip DiBlasi.  University of Louisville Department of Anthropology, Louisville, Kentucky.

If I remember correctly, both discuss the 19th century marble industry in a general sense (as well as having very useful information on painted 'chinas' in particular).

Ryan Gray
University of Chicago


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> From: Doms, Keith <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Marble references
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> Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 7:59 AM
> I am finally working on site that has yielded porcelain and
> stone
> marbles.  I have Mark Randall's 1971 article on early
> marbles in
> Historical Archaeology.  I have searched the web for books
> on marbles
> hoping to find more recent and detailed information.  I
> can't tell by
> the descriptions what the quality of information the
> collector's
> literature has. Does anyone out there have a reference or
> references
> they are happy with or prefer.? 
> 
>  
> 
> Keith R. Doms
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