On our coffee table sits a pyramid of connected four clear, solid glass balls 5 inches high. When the sun hits them through a window, the glass balls burst into a rainbow of colors. As long as I can remember, these beautiful glass balls have always been on display in my parents’ home and now mine. These glass balls were a wedding gift to my mother and father when they married in 1921, which makes them 100 years old.
The glass balls are a genuine family heirloom and they will be passed on to one of my children when I’m no longer…
Subscribe to keep reading
This story is from our archive. Get your SandPaper Annual Pass for access to our digital archive, plus everything else a pass includes. Details below.
Annual Pass — $18 Details
365-day access to:
- The complete SandPaper digital archive (stories date back to 2012).
- Full photo galleries from our photographers.
- The entire catalog of SandPaper games, puzzles and quizzes.
How it works
- Enter your email below and click to pay the one-time $18. Card details are entered on Stripe’s secure page.
- You’re in straight away — no password to create, and nothing to set up or manage.
- You stay signed in. If you’re ever signed out, or you read on a new phone or computer, we’ll email you a code to get you back in.
- Never auto-renews. Your pass is good for one year. We will email you when it expires so you can renew if you’d like.
See our site policies for more information.
Already a subscriber? We’ll email a code to get you back in.
