Marble (toy) Required" and "The Colbert Report". Currently, the world's largest manufacturer of playing marbles is Vacor de Mexico. The company makes 90 percent of the world’s marbles. Over 12 million are produced daily. Marbles are also made in China and may contain lead, arsenic, and/or cadmium due to the manufacturing process of old glass. Art marbles are high-quality collectible marbles arising out of the art glass movement. They are sometimes referred to as contemporary glass marbles to differentiate them from collectible antique marbles, and are spherical works of art glass. Collectible contemporary marbles are made mostly in the United States by
Money, Marbles, and Chalk Money, Marbles, and Chalk "Money, Marbles, and Chalk" is a popular song, written by Garner "Pop" Eckler in 1949. Eckler also recorded the song, but the biggest-selling version was recorded by Patti Page in 1949, and issued by Mercury Records. It entered the Billboard chart on April 23, 1949, at number 27, lasting only that one week. The song also spent a week on the Billboard country music chart, at position number 15. Several artists have recorded the song, including by a group called "Pop's Boys" in June 2009. The group is made up of two of Garner Eckler's nephews,