September – October 2025 issue of AB&GC online for Members!

Featuring a look at history of bottles seen through one retailer's bottles over many decades, what we might hope we'd find while acquiring another collection and a look at DP Co.'s poison bottles. Also great digging, finds, photographs, amusement, ACL's [...]

May–June 2025 issue of AB&GC online for Members!

Read this super-cool issue on beautiful German marbles. Also great digging, finds, photographs, amusement, tragedy, witches, ACL's and history—all in this new issue! Antique Bottle & Glass Collector Vol. 36 No. 3 | May – June 2025 | No. 279 [...]

Sulphide Marbles or Figural Marbles

[from Marbles Galore] Sulphides, or figure marbles, are large translucent marbles manufactured in Germany from the mid-19th century up until the 1930s. Usually 1 1/2″ or more in size, they always feature a figure encased in the center, which early collectors [...]

A Brief History of the Birth of the Modern American Toy Industry in Akron, Ohio

Akronite Samuel C. Dyke ignited the modern toy industry when he automated his factory in 1884. Toy marbles have been around for thousands of years; however, until recently, they were very expensive to produce because they were created [...]

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