How do you tell the difference between old and new marbles? They were made back east — because there was no glass company in the 1850s on the West Coast — and they were put on sailing ships and went around the horn to San Francisco, to be filled with soda water.
They seem to know its on the base of the bottle but after that they get a bit confused sometimes.
Handmade pottery of soil remained the standard piece of holding liquids as well as decorative items.