Other marbles feature tiny, colorful glass flowers encased in clear glass orbs. Still others bear a rainbow of colors that twist upon themselves in one way or another. One of his most recent ...

In 1846, a German glass blower invented special scissors that could cut hot glass during the blowing process. He perfected the technique, added color to the glass and made the first glass marbles.

The marbles in the exhibit include historic examples from collector Paul Baumann and manufactured orbs by Marble King and Jabo, which claim to be the only remaining U.S. glass companies of more ...

MARLBOROUGH — Bert Cohen’s passion is marbles, and after decades of collecting the glass orbs, he knows when a bad joke is coming. He almost always beats the would-be comedians to the punchline.

Buy some glass marbles and use them to mulch or add to gravel. Some garden shops carry beautiful blown-glass orbs held in wrought iron stakes. Hanging a mirror on a fence, ...

That variety is starkest when comparing the collections of small machine- or handmade, playable marbles and the larger decorative glass art marbles of the contemporary movement.

Glass marbles are part of contemporary art, Stuckenberg said. The two orbs and more were part of a set Stuckenberg was hiding ahead of the "World's Biggest Treasure Hunt" kicking off July 1.

These psychedelic orbs are trippy, literally. Each marble shows a wigged out face eating tabs of LSD. Constructing each glass orb using vibrant colors of glass, Gong crafts the drugged faces into ...

Playful arrangement: Add marbles to the bottom of a vase to keep your daisies in the drink and make arranging, well, child's play. Curtain weights: Lightweight drapes and fabric shower curtains ...

BLOCK ISLAND, R.I. -- In a forest here, Katie Hall and members of her extended family were dangling her mother's bra into a hollowed-out tree trunk with the laser focus of open-heart surgeons.

Dave Valle used his homemade shovel to pick up sea glass on Revere Beach. ERIN CLARK/GLOBE STAFF. When one person shared a photo of 40 marbles found in a single day, Valle lost his mind and ...

While orb hunting is a year-round activity, Horton starts each summer "season" by packing a box of 100 sturdy glass floats onto his sailboat and heading to Block Island, like some kind of ...