After going through a trinket box saved from his childhood, Jered McLaughlin found a large green, twist marble. This discovery has led him on a year long marble collecting spree. Collecting and ...

If you've held onto old marbles from childhood or stumbled across a dusty jar in the attic, you might be wondering if they're worth anything. Not all old marbles have high value, but certain handmade, ...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. - Howard Powell scales the mounds of rubble at the former Akro Agate factory site, occasionally bending over to pick up a glass marble that catches his eye. He never knows what he’ll ...

Corkscrews, cat's eyes, Popeyes, tigers, parrots, oxbloods, onionskins, and ketchup and mustards — welcome to the wonderful world of marbles. To the uninitiated, these are just a few of the types of ...

With timing as precise as his collector’s eye and as practiced as the flick of a shooter’s thumb, Bert Cohen could turn his longtime passion for marbles into a one-liner fit for a stand-up act. “You ...