Commies the name for marbles originated as they were common and used by children in their marble games.
Common names for marbles.
Antique brown brown pearl.
A peawee is the name used for any very small marble.
When was the first name marble first recorded in the united states.
Our name for this stone.
Golden cosmos golden eclipse.
Is a general name applied in many parts of the country to all glass marbles including opals glimmers bloods rubies etc.
The oldest recorded birth by the social security administration for the name marble is thursday april 4th 1878.
You may want to collect them just for the way they look.
Many were quarried and ground in germany and then exported to america and other countries.
You will definitely find yourself and your children making up rules to suit your own needs.
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.
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.
As a last name marble was the 5 940 th most popular name in 2010.
Marbles over an inch in size are called boulders and not are not allowed in standard games.
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.
In the stone industry it is very common for a material to have more than one name.
These marble names refer to categories of marbles.
The different types of marbles are quite beautiful.
Because this game is so old there are countless ways to play countless games to make up and countless names for marbles.
Large marbles are uncommon in game play unless players have made modifications to the rules.
Golden peach yellow rusty.
In australia games were played with marbles of different sizes.
Bumbo bumboozer or bowler are names applied to very large marbles of any description.