The caption goes here. Among the simplest of toys. And, because the handmade marble is vanishing amid a flood of cheaply made, dull, machined marbles, the originals have become collectable. Many will be on display at this weekend's Hawaii Historical Bottle Collectors Club Show and Sale.
Marbles are . . .
They have color, they can be one of a kind, they're still affordable, and they can be worth thousands. The word itself comes from marbles made of marble chips at Italian quarries, but the modern marble is fairly recent, being snipped from rods of heated glass and rolled. But then came World War I, plus American manufacturing capability. In the 1950s, the Japanese and Chinese began mass-producing marbles. They basically put the American marble companies out of business.