From Growing up with my Grandfather by Clifton Truman Daniel:
"Among my favorites were the marbles my grandmother kept in an ornate thingmabob on the dining room sideboard. The Park Service has this item listed as an epergne, something in which you keep flowers. But it looks more like a nineteenth-century bowling trophy. It was given to my great-grandparents, David and Madge Wallace, as a wedding gift by their groomsmen.
The bowl at the top is where my grandmother kept the marbles. She kept them there because I kept putting them down the heating vents, and she hoped the top bowl would be out of my reach.
I first found the marbles when I was about three or four years old. They were nothing spectacular, just a batch of red and blue marbles my grandmother had bought specifically for me and Will. Only I found them a few years earlier than she hoped I would."
