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                                          February 1998
 
 
                                                      Game Marble Bibliography
 
                                                           By James M. Mckie
                                            Dr. Sprague's Historical Archaeology
 Class, 1976
 
                                         Post 1976 references added by Smoke Pfe
iffer
 
 
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.  Procee
dings 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)