"Stefan Viljoen polard.com>" <spamnot@<removethis> schreef in bericht
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> Thomas de Groot spake:
> >>
> > Yes indeed! And I remember you had small ones, and big ones (called
> > Stuiter, in Dutch). In France, I remember we had also very cheap ones
made
> > of backed clay, painted in bright colors.
>
> Haha - you wouldn't be seen dead with those. Oh the ridicule!
>
> Those were the type you hid somewhere with your shoes - a big glass one
with
> a yellow insert, now THAT was status among the boys (literally).
>
The interesting thing was that the clay marbles could be smashed to pieces
by the glass ones. But otherwise, the clay ones were well accepted, and you
could have lots of them, while the glass marbles were fairly expensive.

Thomas

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