Mica glassy to translucent with streaks or patches of mica ranging from clear to misty.
All types of toy marbles.
Onion skin swirled and layered like an onion.
Cat s eye superman and onionskin.
Most antique marbles are handmade and contain a pontil mark or a rough spot that indicates cutting from a can or glass pontil rod.
Most commonly they are about 13 mm in diameter but they may range from less than 1 mm to over 8 cm while some art glass marbles for display purposes are over 30 cm wide.
They are often collected both for nostalgia and for their aesthetic colors.
Also glass toy marbles as in akro agates registered to the akro agate company.
Antique and modern marbles differ in a few key ways including appearance quality perfection and manufacturing process.
Toy marbles what are some of the differences between antique and modern marbles.
Ceramic as in the trademarked dyke s american agates registered to samuel c.
In the north of england the objects and the game are called taws with lar.
There were around 8 plain clear catseyes several craft store types some white ones and a few common swirled opaques.
Marbles can be used for a variety of games called marbles.
The low rating is because there are only 24 different marbles and most are very common.
A marble is a small spherical toy often made from glass clay steel plastic or agate.
A name adopted by early american marble manufacturers to describe any and all classes types and styles of marbles including.
These balls vary in size.
Crystal clearie purie any clear colored glass including opals glimmers bloods rubies etc.