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I used to be a Paving Contractor and everytime we dug up a driveway in one of the old nieghborhoods we would find these.I dont really collect I just kinda threw `em in a jar and they sat for over 20 years.Can abyone see a rare or hard to find one in the pics any help aprreciated.. Thanks
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I dug a rut in a driveway one time and came up with over two hundred marbles. That was 40 years ago, so quite a few were interesting but mostly beat all to pieces--they had been there a long time, probably lost in a mud puddle long ago. Recently I saw marbles used in a concrete grave stone--they were all 1930's vintage Akros and Peltiers and slags--you could not read it anymore, but you could guess the date, and come close to the age and the likely sex of the child buried there.