Antique brown brown pearl.
Common names for marbles.
Agates or aggies by the middle of the nineteenth century marbles made of agate had become so popular that the word aggie a nickname for agate came to be used for all stone marbles.
Our name for this stone.
Many were quarried and ground in germany and then exported to america and other countries.
In marble sets and marble runs the 1 3 8 of an inch and the 1 5 8 of an inch marbles are the more common choices.
The smallest and most common was about 15 mm 5 8 in in diameter the two larger more valuable sizes were referred to as semi bowlers and tom bowlers being about 20 mm 3 4 in and 25 mm 1 in in diameter respectively they were used in much the same way as ordinary marbles although sometimes they would be declared.
According to wikipedia marble is a compact metamorphic rock composed of recrystallised carbonate minerals that have been subject to high temperatures and pressure resulting in different types of marble.
Because this game is so old there are countless ways to play countless games to make up and countless names for marbles.
Mass production for clay marbles started when sam dyke of akron ohio invented a machine in 1884 to speed up the process of making marbles.
You will definitely find yourself and your children making up rules to suit your own needs.
Large marbles are uncommon in game play unless players have made modifications to the rules.
These marble names refer to categories of marbles.
When was the first name marble first recorded in the united states.
In the stone industry it is very common for a material to have more than one name.
Following is a list of marble types according to their colour since there is clearly a very wide and varied colour range our list below aims to highlight the most representative marble types.
Is a general name applied in many parts of the country to all glass marbles including opals glimmers bloods rubies etc.
As a last name marble was the 5 940 th most popular name in 2010.
Bumbo bumboozer or bowler are names applied to very large marbles of any description.
Golden cosmos golden eclipse.
In australia games were played with marbles of different sizes.
The oldest recorded birth by the social security administration for the name marble is thursday april 4th 1878.
Golden peach yellow rusty.
You may want to collect them just for the way they look.
Marbles over an inch in size are called boulders and not are not allowed in standard games.
