Marble Ball Names

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.

Marble ball names.

Ade strands of opaque white and color. Aggie either a marble made out of agate or a glass marble that looks like it s agate. These marble names refer to categories of marbles. Affordable glass marbles were first made in the 19th century when a special pair of scissors that.

Marbles images marble games marble toys marble machine marble art glass marbles glass paperweights glass ball vintage toys. Alley a marble made of marble. Many were quarried and ground in germany and then exported to america and other countries. Marble day types of marbles.

Marbles are simply little spherical balls used by children and adults to play a range of games. A glass or imitation aggie is also called an immie. If i go in the way back machine seriously who didn t just love rocky and bullwinkle i can remember my article by dinah garcia. Alley is short for alabaster.

Types of marbles aggie made of agate aggie is short for agate or glass resembling agate with various patterns like in the alley alley or real made of marble or alabaster alley is short for alabaster streaked with wavy or other patterns with. No one knows exactly when the first marbles were invented but they date back to the times of the ancient egyptians greeks and romans who played with marbles made of stone clay or polished nuts.