Subject: Re: Marbles
> Does anybody know of a good reference for childrens marbles that
describes
> changes in manufacturing techniques, etc. that may be useful for
dating?
>
> Michael Striker
I have attached a copy of Smoke Pfieffer's last marble biblio:
April 1998
Game Marble
Bibliography
By James M. Mckie
Dr. Sprague's Historical
Archaeology Class, 1976
Post 1976 references (and a few earlier) added
by Smoke Pfeiffer
Anonymous
1927 Prehistoric Boys Played Marbles Too. Mentor 15(3):63
1948 Marbles Roll into New Industrial Uses. Business Week 81:24-25.
(Illustrations show present Marble making techniques)
1968 It's Spring - Get Out Your Aggies and Immies. Changing Times
22(3):46-47.
Barrett, Marilyn
1994 Aggies, Immies, Shooters and Swirls: The Magical Woprld of Marbles.
Little Brown and Co., Boston
Baumann, Paul
1970 Collecting Antique Marbles. Mid-America Book Company, Leon, Iowa.
Block, Robert
1996 Marbles: Identification and Price Guide. The Marble Collectors
Society of America. Schiffer, Publiushing Company, Altgen, PA.
Carskadden, Jeff, Richard Gartley, and E. Reed
1985 Marble Making and Marble Playing in Eastern Ohio: The Significance
of Ceramic, Stone, and Glass Marbles in Historic Archaeology.
Proceedings of
the Symposium on Ohio Valley Urban and Historic Archaeology
3:86-96.
University of Louisville.
Carskadden, Jeff and Richard Gartley
1990 Chinas: Hand Painted Marbles of the Late 19th Century. Muskingun
Valley Archaeological Survey, Zanesville, Ohio.
Ferretti, Fred
1973 The Great American Marble Book. Workman Publishers.
Freeman, Ruth, and Iarry Freeman
1942 Cavalcade of Toys. Century House, N.Y.
Greenwood, Roberta S., and R.O. Brown
1968 The Chapel of Santa Gertrudis. Pacific Coast Archaeological
Society Quarterly 4(4):1-60.
(A short paragraph describing two marbles)
Harder, Kelsie B.
1955 The Vocabulary of Marble Playing. Publications of the American
Dialect Society 23:3-34.
(An extensive list of marble terms and what they mean)
Hiro
1968 The Aesthetic of the Mib. Esquire 70(2):86-87.
(Two photographs with explanations)
Howe, Bea
1969 The Charm of Old Marbles. Country Life 146(3797):1593.
Kenyon, Thomas
n.d. Marbles. Kewa Magazine. Ontario Archaeological Society, London
Chapter.
Kern, G. I.
1940 Marbles - An Old Game. Recreation 34(2):109-110.
(A concise historical sketch)
Long, C. E.
1950 Notes on Antiques Marbles. Hobbies 55(3):98-99.
(Contains some historical information plus one illustration)
Miller, Roger C.
1966 Swirl and Sulfide Playing Marbles. Spinning Wheel 22(11):20-21.
Noel Hume, Ivor
1970 A Guide to Artifacts of Colonial America. Alfred A. Knopf,
New York.
(Just briefly mentions marbles)
Randall, Mark E.
1971 Early Marbles. Historical Archaeology 5:102-105.
(Probably the only article up to this point devoted to early
marbles in a scholarly journal. Illustrations)
Randall, Mark E.
1979 Marbles as Historical Artifacts. Marble Collectors Society of
the America, Trumball, CT.
Sackett, S. J.
1962 Marbles Words from Hayes, Kansas. Publications of the American
Dialect Society 37:1-3.
Shull, Thelma
1941 Old Glass Marbles. Hobbies 46(9):55-57.
(A concise historical sketch with illustrations)
Slusser, Esther
1969 More About Swirl Marbles. Spinning Wheel 25(7):58-59.
Webb, Dennis
1994 Greenbergs Guide to Marbles. Greenberg Books, Kalmback Publishing
Company, Waukesha, WI.
Willy, Gordon R.
1966 An Introduction to American Archaeology, Vol. 1, North and
Middle America. Engelwood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.
(Photographs of possible prehistoric marbles)
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