Marbles and their names

[Mulletino]

I saw a picture of some marbles today and they had names I didn't recognise which made me start to try to remember what we called the different types of marbles at school in the 70s.

I remember the bigger ones were Queens, then the biggest were Kings. I think the white and color ones were "Emporers" or something?

Anyone else remember similar names for them?

[tex]

Steelys the very big steel ones , Dobbers the big glass ones

[beccabear67]

We had steelies but they were any metal ones (probably all ball bearings?)... but a large glass one we called trombolies, I have no idea why, something inherited from older kids. I think there were also aggies which were not your run-of-the-mill glass marbles. I did play marbles in the school yard, whatever you knocked out of a circle in the dirt you kept, but I don't remember the rules otherwise.

[Pussywillow]

I remember the big plain ones were referred to as alleys (sp?) and smaller ones with two colours half-alleys.

[Semi42]

yes I remember we called the plain ones alleys. The steel ball bearings we called ironers and any big oversize ones were called plonkers. There was a name for the plain clear glass ones with no coloured bit in them but I can’t remember.

The rules we had were slightly different to the norm from what I read
each marble had a value
plain run of the mill marbles were 3
rarer ones were 6
plonkers were 12
some values were decided on before the game.
From an agreed distance, you took turns at flicking your marble at your opponents until it hit his/hers, then you got another attempt . Each hit deducting a point off the opponent marble’s value.
when you had taken all the value points, the marble was yours.

[SunnyLeslie]

I have a few of these balls left, my dad had a set in his youth, but most were lost. I don't really know the names, it was not my childhood. But somewhere such goodness lies in the attic. Just in case

[George 1978]

I know that marbles were the currency of the school playground and that they had different names, but I couldn't remember most of them - some even took Hungry Hippos marbles to school with them to play...