What are the different types of marbles?

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Alley or real - made of marble or alabaster (alley is short for alabaster), streaked with wavy or other patterns with exotic names like corkscrew, spiral, snake, ribbon, onyx, swirl, bumblebee, butterfly, and...

Toothpaste - wavy streaks usually with red, blue, black, white, orange

Turtle - wavy streaks containing green and yellow

Ade - strands of opaque white and color, making lemon-ade, lime-ade, orange-ade, etc.

Oxblood - a streaky patch resembling blood

Lutz - a type of swirl, taken from the skating term

Onionskin - swirled and layered like an onion

Clambroth - equally spaced opaque lines on a usually opaque base

Cat's Eye or catseye - central eye-shaped colored inserts or cores (injected inside the marble)

Devil's Eye - red with yellow eye

Beachball - three colors and six vanes

Viagra - a blue strand of liquid

Aggie - made of agate (aggie is short for agate) or glass resembling agate, with various patterns like in the alley

Mica - glassy to translucent with streaks or patches of mica, ranging from clear to misty

Sulphide - clear with an object inside

China - glazed porcelain, with various patterns like in the alley

Plaster - a form of china that is unglazed

Indian - dark and opaque, usually black?

Commie or common - made of clay

Bennington - clay fired in a kiln with salt glaze

Steely - made of steel

Croton alley or Jasper - glazed and unglazed china marbled with blue

Crystal or clearie or purie - any clear colored glass - including "opals," "glimmers," "bloods," "rubies," etc. These can have any number of descriptive names such as "deep blue sea".

Princess - a tinted crystal

Galaxy - lots of dots inserted like a sky of stars

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What are the different types of marbles?

Can you provide an internet resource with pictures of each of the different types?

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The first link has beautiful pics. The second link has loads of info, but no pics. Hope this helps!

http://marbleforum.blogspot.com/2007/12/marbles-ty...

http://www.inquiry.net/outdoor/spring/marbles/name...

i used to have a bunch of cat eye marbles. unfortunately, I lost my marbles.

Economy kind was..."Dobies" clay looking sized lgr than a pea "Glassies" -they were mostly shooters (bright and colorful) "Steelies" used to break---(kind'a like you use an 8 ball in pool--- looked like a break bearing and wuz steel)