Here is an unusual bag of marbles. From what I recall my grandfather Frank and father Ernest Anders Erickson telling me, the marbles began being used during the Revolutionary War. They were carried by soldiers for their amusement during their idle times and games they played. Often they were lost in Revolutionary War camps.

Similar experiences can be found during the Civil War and most interestingly hundreds were also located at Indian village excavations.

The marbles are clay fired and some are glazed and most are not. There is one in the group that I added and is called the "Blood Eyeball Aggy" (Agate) that my father kept from his childhood when he played marbles in the 1920s-1930s in Dakota.