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January 30, 2008

Green Gooseberry

marbles, glass, gooseberry, Germany, 1800s, collectible, collector, Joan Beam

A very rare marble. It measures 3/4 of an inch.

Posted by Joan at 1/30/2008

Labels: gooseberry, swirls

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: I have 3 of them in perfect nick. vannessaskye@hotmail.com; July 21, 2014 at 7:17 PM

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