What do you make of these marbles (where'd they come from)?

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I had my new pup outside in the back yard - trying to get her to do her business. While I was waiting for her to sniff and do doggie things, I noticed this shiny light bluish marble in the dirt.

Then I noticed another and another....as I pushed the grass aside and some dirt (this area was towards the back side of my yard where we have some drainage and start moving into the trees and forest wetland area so there is more dirt than grass. There had to be over a dozen of these light bluish marbles. It seemed they were coming up from the dirt - many were half buried. It seemed maybe some of the recent rain (and then our leaf blower) might have caused these marbles to come up from the ground.

But where did these come from? They are not near the house or garage. They are almost into the woods. All the same color. What do you make of this?

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[+3] - eurocelticyankee - 04/04/2019They turn blue in the Winter.

@Linkat,

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@Linkat,

Could be way off the mark but ....

http://digitalocean.net/blue-marbles-project/

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That is interesting - makes it even more interesting as my older daughter is studying Environmental Science in college right now - and to top it off she is taking Marine Biology and even more of a coincidence - she left for a long weekend trip for a Marine Biology project just as I am typing this.

Weird huh?

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@Linkat,

Strange one alright.

They could also be Leprechaun balls, in which case be very careful how you handle them.

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@eurocelticyankee,

eurocelticyankee wrote:

Strange one alright.

They could also be Leprechaun balls, in which case be very careful how you handle them.

Wouldn't they be green?

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@Linkat,

They turn blue in the Winter.

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@eurocelticyankee,

eurocelticyankee wrote:

They turn blue in the Winter.

but its spring!

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@Linkat,

They shed their Winter ones and grow new ones in the Spring.

Remember if you see green marbles do not pick them up as they could have a Leprechaun attached to them.

The question remains; how did your marbles get there?

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@eurocelticyankee,

I am going to do some digging literally this weekend.

At first I thought maybe they were those you use for filling glass vases - and maybe the former owners had a flower basket or something hanging - but it way too far from the house for that -

And then I thought maybe when their boy was young he used marbles - but that didn't make sense cuz they are all the same color. A kid would have a variety of colors.

The Leprechaun thing makes the most sense right now. I mean we are on the edge of the woods - maybe like the animals - building so many homes has displaced these woodland fairy type creatures.

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Ok this is weird

https://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20050619/LIFE/306199998

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@Linkat,

Mine. I lost my marbles about a decade ago.

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@roger,

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Mine. I lost my marbles about a decade ago.

All your marbles are blue? You must be sad

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@eurocelticyankee,

Interesting video

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Our museum received a donation of children’s toys from the 1920s. The collection included glass and clay marbles of all sizes. Some can be valuable. Have fun!

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@PUNKEY,

My daughter and I went out today -- I showed them to her although she found it interesting and grabbed a few she wasn't as impressed as I was - I know have 13 cleaned and sitting in my desk drawer - hoping more will "grow" out of the ground

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@PUNKEY,

the really valuable ones are the teething marbles. These are usually glass and colored like venetian glass. an they are about 1.5 " diameter or greter (The bigger they are is safer or little kis, They cant swallow them.
Those can go for up to 2K EACH (if theyve got some stampage or colonial identification )

When they are all the same color an small, Id be thinking flower pot ballast too. You can but that kind of stuff at Hobby Lobby for 2 to 5 buck a BAG

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