Sea glass marbles are said to come from four main sources.
Marbles ship ballast.
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Ballast is used in ships to provide moment to resist the lateral forces on the hull.
Whenever the ship s ballast in the tank levels with the waterline gravity method stops.
An example of this is the italian bark the fortuna which shipwrecked in what is now ship bottom new jersey in 1910.
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Ship ballast codd bottles playing marbles and railroad marbles.
This is often the case of marbles found around the united kingdom where this type of.
They are fast reliable and usable at any stage of the operation.
Too much heel may result in the boat ship capsizing.
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An ongoing theory is that the marbles were stored in the keel of the ships and may have acted as temporary ballast.
So although playing marbles may not have been used as ballast they were definitely being transported by ship between japan and the u s.
If there was a type of marble that would have been used as ballast it would perhaps have been an inexpensively made older and mass produced marble older even than a glass marble.
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They ended up in the ocean.
The marble collectors society of america says that clay marbles were made in both germany and the us.
Insufficiently ballasted boats tend to tip or heel excessively in high winds.
When these soda bottles were tossed into the sea or in the land fills along the shore or thrown off a boat etc.
It has been reported that clay marbles were used as ballast in the keels of ships that sailed to america from germany and then were removed and sold in the us.
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Of these playing marbles make up the overwhelming majority especially here on us shores.
