Glass marbles were made during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Workers in many glass factories made marbles for their own children. The Venetian swirl type, with ribbons of colored glass in a clear marble, and End of Day glass marbles, with flecks of colored glass in them, are most desirable.
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