
Marbles are big business

A collector examined a vintage Peltier comic marble, roughly the 1930s.
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Marble enthusiast Grace Quijano, 12, of Milton, put together a notebook on the subject.
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Bert Cohen is co-manager of the Northeast Marbles Meet.
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In the hall outside the marble meet convention room, Kalinna Dibb, 9, (left) got some help identifying marbles in her collection from fellow marble enthusiast and new friend Grace Quijano, 12. Benjamin Dibb, 7, (right) waited for them to finish.
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Nancy Zeloski (right) of Moultonborough, N.H., showed Robert Block of Connecticut photos of her marble collection.
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Jonathan Burnham (center) examined marbles for sale by Kevin Gray (left).
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Carly Andrulat, 12, (right) has been a collector "forever," according to her mom, Annette Andrulat (center).
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A variety of Lutz marbles, all handmade in Germany in the late 1800s.
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A box of 25 Guinea marbles from the Christensen Agate Co., circa 1927-1929, $14,000.
THE ROBERT BLOCK COLLECTION
| October 21, 2014