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Hmm, for $53, you can buy a colorful marbles mat...for your kids to
learn eye-hand coordination skills:
http://www.elearningtoys.com/llt113b.html
And besides the marble collectors...this link has current 'no battery
needed' marble games:
http://www.landofmarbles.com/
Check out the rules, how to play:
http://www.landofmarbles.com/marbles-play.html
From a 1930s instruction sheet.
Wonder if marbles was more popular in rural towns, and especially before
TV turned kids into zombies.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Boyer, Jeffrey, DCA [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 5:32 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Archaeological Toys
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>I'd agree with your gender assignments. Obviously, there were
>cross-players (I used to be pretty good at both, but I was a
>school champ at marbles in the 5th or 6th grade -- no brag,
>just fact). We boys played marbles regularly in the early
>60s. Not sure when it went out of fashion as pre-manly
>competition, but it was after that, here in northern New
>Mexico anyway. We did not flip bottle caps, but, like you, we
>dug the cork out of them.
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