Richard Morton wrote:
> These look very nice but the swirly coloured patterns (I'm trying to use
the
> correct terminology here) don't look like any marbles that I used in my
> youth. The patterns that I remember were more like leaves with two or
three
> twisted slightly.

Hmm, that seems to be the concensus of opinion, and is the next bit I'm
going to try and fix.

Richard Morton continued:
> Chips and scratches were very common, given that concrete and ashphalt
were
> the kinds of surfaces played on. The one on the right looks too severe,
the
> one on the left is better but probably needs more. I don't ever remember a
> marble breaking so they must have been very resistant to cracking.

Oh ... Mine just has; the marble on the right is now two semi-marbles.

Richard Morton concluded
> Does anyone remember the names of the different types of marbles and their
> relative values.

Probably different depending on where you are. in 1981, Reindahlen JHQ in
Germany, I think we called the white ones china-whites. The big ones we
called two-ers. One-ers for your regular marble. There were also some tiny
little ones I think we called pee-wee's. Ballbearings were called just that.
Don't recall what the totally transparent ones were called but I seem to
recall them being worth twice the normal value when it came to swapping,
etc. Ballbearings also were double the value of a like-sized marble as I
recall - might have been more.

We used to play marbles with holes (i.e. holes in the ground - like golf,
not holes in the marbles) Charlie Brown always seems to play marbles in a
big circle, I would figure the points value is based on this circle type
version of marbles. I beleive the name of the game with this form of marbles
is to shoot your marble, and attempt to knock the others out of the ring.
You win however many you knock out, so I would think the points value is
based in the weight of the marble. Shoot a heavier marble to increase your
chance of knocking more marbles out, but with the risk of loosing a higher
points value if it doesn't come out itself.

Phew, all this marble talk is bringing it flooding back

Cheers.

--
Duncan Gray
(warning: may contain traces of nut)

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