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▲ 9 r/MarbleStudyHall

Update: what do I call the purple one?

Hi all, I have heard you and gotten better pictures. A couple observations. The small dark (without light) translucent marbles are not perfectly spherical. What I thought was flakes or tiling on them is actually chips in the marble from play. They are also smaller than a normal cats eye and I have a pic of them with a shooter for scale.

I also included a pic of a multicolored marble. There is only one that looks like this in the jar. Same with the blue swirl. The purple marble is here as well.

It rained today so they came out to play!

Thanks again!

u/dropcookies — 3 days ago

▲ 9 r/MarbleStudyHall

What do I call the purple marble?

Hi everyone,

I bought a small jar of marbles 8 or 9 years ago at an antique store. Currently, my young daughter gets all excited when it rains because that means I pull out yhe marbles and we play with them. She has started asking me what the names of the marbles are. In particular, the purple one.

I confess. I know next to nothing about anything beyond a cats eye. My answers of “shiny red, blue, and lime green” no longer suffice.

Which brings me to the purple one in pic 1. It is her favorite. What is the proper name of this marble?

For my own curiosity, the ones which appear black but are actually metallic grey, smokey purple, and amber light (pic 4). What are they called?

Thank you in advance!

u/dropcookies — 4 days ago