Antique Stone Marbles. These marble names refer to categories of marbles. Make offer very old handmade painted stone marbles. 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.
Antique marble floors and walls. Antique marbles of stone pottery and glass.
Among the more readily available are tigereye onyx goldstone malachite snowflake obsidian and quartz.
The design on the stone marbles was a result of the impurities or sand chert clay silt iron oxides. These marble names refer to categories of 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. These vintage marbles were manufactured using a glassblowing technique inducing characteristics like bubbles and pontils.