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| Name of Stone | Origin | Color | Comments |
| Chalen | “Same as Marvilla.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) | ||
| Chalen Marble | “Quarried at Cockeysville, Maryland.” USA | “Variegated bluish-gray and greenish-white.” | “Marvilla Marble or Maryland Marble and Chalen Marble.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s), Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Chalenches Marble | Chalenches, in Isere, France | “Pinkish white, with small white spots.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Chalk | “Totternhoe Stone from quarries andmines around the village of Totternhoe near Dunstable, Bedford shire, England.” “Beer Stone, near Seaton, Devon." | “White, gray or buff.” | “(a soft limestome)” (sic)...The harder kinds of chalk were used in the rubble walls of Roman times in London, and have been used in cottages and occasionally in churches of various places in England, where it is known as Totternhoe Stone from quarries and mines around the village of Totternhoe near Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England. This variety is described as almost white, another variety known as Beer Stone from mines close to the village of Beer, near Seaton, Devon, has a creamy white tint when fresh and a paler color after being exposed.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Chalkero-Kavala Ash-Color Marble | Greece | (5) | |
| "Chalk Rock" Limestone | Lincoln, Nebraska, USA | ||
| Chalons | “Same as Eschaillon.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) | ||
| Chambersburg Limestone | Pennsylvania, USA | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLIV, No. 12, Dec., 1923 (“A dark, fine-grained limestone, used locally for building and lime-burning.”) | |
| Champ-Robert Marble | “Champ-Robert Quarry, Nievre, France.” | “Grayish white with small black veins. | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Champagne Granite | Brazil | (5) | |
| Champagne Juparana Granite | Brazil | Interior and exterior (12) | |
| Champagne Medina Granite | Brazil | (5) | |
| Champion Pink Marble | “Gray Knox Quarry, near Knoxville, Tennessee.” USA | “Light pink with waves of darker shade and occasional veins or crow feet.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Champlain Black | “See Swanton Black.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) | ||
| Champlain Lake or Champlain Marbles | “See Jasper, Lyonnaise, Olive, Oriental, Royal Red, Swanton Black, Swanton Dove, Vermont Verde Antique. ” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) | ||
| Champlain Marble (Jasper) | Near the east shore of the northern part of Lake Champlain, Vermont, including Swanton and Monkton, USA | Bright reddish ground containing pinkish and white irregular lenticular objects. | |
| Champlain Marble (Lyonnaise) | Near the east shore of the northern part of Lake Champlain, Vermont, including Swanton and Monkton, USA | Brownish-red ground or of merging forms of roundish cylindrical or irregular outline in brownish red with interspaces filled with whitish crystaline dolomite. | |
| Champlain Marble (Olive) | Near the east shore of the northern part of Lake Champlain, Vermont, including Swanton and Monkton, USA | Light, faintly greenish-gray ground, enclosing very irregular lenses or elongated cones of light pinkish-gray in color. | |
| Champlain Marble (Oriental) | Near the east shore of the northern part of Lake Champlain, Vermont, including Swanton and Monkton, USA | Dark reddish brown ground enclosing dark purplish-gray areas of very irregular curving outline and concentrically banded, also with some irregular spots of white calcite. | |
| Champoli Marble | Loire, Champoli, France | “Blue, gray, white and yellow.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Champville Marble | France | “Cream-yellow color, with occasional rose coloring.” | “Is a fine grained dense marble.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Charcoal Black Granite | Cold Spring, Minnesota, USA | Dark gray | Quarried by Cold Spring Granite Co. (1) |
| Charcoal Blue Slate | China | (5) | |
| Charcoal Grey Marble | Greece | (5) | |
| Charlemont Marble | “Charlemont in Ardennes.” | “Deep red with white veins.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Charleville (Fossil) Marble | “Charleville quarries in Ardennes.” | “Red, mottled with gray, blue and white.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Charme Granite | Egypt | (5) | |
| Chartreux Marble | “Cambovin, in Drome, France.” | White | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Chase Monumental Granite | Town of Bluehill, 3 miles east of Bluehill Village, Maine, USA | Medium bluish-gray color | |
| Chassignelles Foret des Brousses | France | “Light whitish color.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Chassignelles Limestone | France | Almost white | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLV, No. 10, Oct., 1924 (“Has been widely used for fine structural work and decoration. It has been employed in notable buildings in NewYork. The stone is a compact fine and even-grained oolite, almost white in color, and carves well. The decorative stone from the lower beds is known as Pierre Marbree de’Ancy-le-France.”) |
| "Chattanooga Marble" | The upper part of the Knox dolomite and from East Tennessee Valley, Ohio, USA | ||
| Chateau (Breche) | “See Breche montagne du Chateau.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) | ||
| Chateau De Pratz | “Same as Jaune Lamartiine.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) | ||
| Chateau-Landon Marble | “Chateau Quarry, in Seine et Marne, France.” | “Banded with varied shades of yellow and white veins and fossils.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Chatelperron Marbles | “Quarried at and near Chatelperron, in Allier, France.” | “Are generally of a grayish white. Some have pinkish veins, and others quarried at Gilly are veined with yellow, while others are white and some are mottled blue, white and gray.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Chauk-Sen | “The name by which Jade is known in Burma.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) | ||
| Chaumont Marble | Chaumont, Marne, France | “Whitish gray with pink spots.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Cheema Blue Granite | India | (5) | |
| Chelmsford Granite | North Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA | Light gray stone of fine to medium grain, highlighted by small black flakes. | |
| Chelmsford Gray Granite | North Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA | Light gray | Quarried by Fletcher Granite Co., Inc. (1) |
| Chelmsford White Granite | North Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA | White | Quarried by Fletcher Granite Co., Inc. (1) |
| Chemari Limestone | Egypt | Dark cream colored | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLVI, No. 1, Jan., 1925 (“medium grained chalky limestone, slightly shelly.”) |
| Chemtou Marble | “Modern name for Simittu Colonia, in the Medjerda Valley, Tunis, Africa.” | “Modern name for Simittu Colonia, in the Medjerda Valley, Tunis, Africa. Near this place are located the quarries that according to Playfair produced the Roman Giallo Antico (Numidian Yellow). The location of the quarry was lost for many centuries and accidentally discovered when the railroad from Algeria to Tunis was under construction. The quarry was reopened and has been in operation almost continuously for many years, but is not operating at present.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) | |
| Chenove Marble | Near Chenove, Cote d’Or, France. | “Light brown with white spots.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Cherokee Marbles | Near Marble City, Oklahoma, USA. | (Oklahoma Marble) “Quarried (near Marble City, Oklahoma, and formerly known as Cherokee marbles. Several varieties of gray and pink were formerly produced, all of which took a good polish. Quarry is not producing at present. This quarry was opened about 1896 and was operated from time to time until about 1912. The output was also known as Ozark Gray, Ozark marble, and Ozark Pink.” ( from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag., (circa 1920) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) | |
| "Chequest Marble" | Van Buren County, Iowa, USA | Dove gray | Fossiliferous limestone |
| Cher Marble | Salle-Au-Roi, Cher, France | “Red and gray” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Cherani Marble | “One of the quarries producing Marmara.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) | ||
| Chercos Beteado Marble | “At Chercos, Sierra De Las Filabres, Almeria, Spain.” | “White, traversed with numerous gray veins.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Chercos Blanco Marble | “Chercos, Sierra De Las Filabres, Almeria, Spain.” | “A White Statuary.” | “Obtainable in large blocks.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Cherokee County Marble | “See Regal Blue.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) | ||
| Cherokee Marble | Tate, Pickins County, Georgia, USA | “Bluish white with clouds of darker shade.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Cherokee Strip Marbles | “Same as Oklahoma Marbles.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) | ||
| Cherry Flower Granite | China | (5) | |
| Chester County Marble | “See Pena White.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) | ||
| Chestnut Granite | Georgia (the country) | (5) | |
| Chiampo Dark or Tavernelle Dark Marble | “Montalato, Venetia, Italy.” | “From light yellow to brownish yellow.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Chiampo Flurie or Tavernelle Flurie Marble | “Quarries near Chiampo, Venetia, Italy.” | “Creamish yellow with fine bluish markings.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Chiampo Mandorlato Marble | Vicenza, Italy | Interior and exterior (11) | |
| Chiampo Paglierino Marble | Vincenza, Italy | Interior and exterior (11) | |
| Chiampo Perla or Tavernelle Clair Marble | “Quarries near Chiampo, Venetia, Italy.” | “Light creamish yellow slightly variegated.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Chiampo Perlato Marble | Vincenza, Italy | ||
| Chiampo Rosa Marble | Vicenza, Italy | Interior and exterior (11) | |
| Chiampo Rosato or Tavernelle Rose Marble | “Quarries near Chiampo, Venetia, Italy.” | “Light creamish yellow slightly variegated with rose markings.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Chiampo Serpeggiante Marble | Vicenza, Italy | Interior (11) | |
| Chian Marble | “On the island of Chois, Asiatic Turkey.” | “Light and dark gray with fine red and yellow veins.” | “The Porta Santa of the ancient Romans was quarried on the Island of Chois, Asiatic Turkey.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Chickamauga Limestone | “Name given by American geologists to a formation occurring in about the middle of the Ordovician System.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) | ||
| Chiem Lake Marbles | “Near Lake Chiem.” | “See Ruhpolding Red and Red and Green, which is quarried near Lake Chiem.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) | |
| Chillagoe Pink Marble | Australia | Interior (12) | |
| Chilli Red Granite | India | (5) | |
| Chilmark Stone (Limestone) | England | Yellowish-brown | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLV, No. 10, Oct., 1924 (“siliceous limestone, used for building purposes for many centuries.”) |
| Chios Island Marble | Greece | Brown | (7) |
| Chilmark Limestone | Chilmark Quarries Ltd Teffont Quarry, RAF Chilmark, Salisbury, Wilts | Greenish grey | (2) |
| Chilmark Stone | England | “Yellowish brown, but assumes a greenish tinge when exposed to the weather.” | “An English Limestone, which has been used for hundreds of years....Contains about 10 per cent of Silica.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| China Black Slate | China | (5) | |
| China Gray Slate | China | (5) | |
| China Green Granite | China | (5) | |
| China Multi Color Slate | China | (5) | |
| China Pink Granite | China | (5) | |
| Chinese Black and White Marble | “Sui Hing Quarries, Tung on Mt. Kwang, Tung Province, Chinese.” | “‘Composed of alternating black and white clouded and contorted bands and veins, with a few black and white patches.’ (Watson)” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Chinese Breccia | “Sui Hing Quarries, Tung on Mt. Kwang, Tun Province, China.” | “‘It is a shattered limestone with dark red veins and occasional white calcite patches, the ground mass is mottled with white and pink.’ (Watson)” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Chinese Breche (French) | “Same as the French marble Brech Chinoise.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) | ||
| Chinese Gray Marble | China | White | “This is probably Gray Siam, as large quantities of this material are used by Chinese marble makers. Until a few years ago Italian marble was brought in large quantities to China and when worked into buildings and according to Watson were then known as Chinese White.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Chinese Green Marble | China | Interior and exterior (12) | |
| Chinese Variegated Marble | “Sui Hing Quarries, Tung on Mt. Kwang, Tung Province, China.” | “Delicate pink to pink and purple flowered patches, with white and occasional red veins.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Chinese White Marble | “Ting Take Quarries, Fe Shu Ngan Mt. Kwang, Tung Province, China.” | “Dull white with few pale green markings.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Chios Brown Marble | Greece | (5) | |
| Chippal Marble | Vosges, France | “One variety is whitem (sic) others are grayish white with blue veins.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Chocolate Marble | Brazil (Brasil) | (5) | |
| Chorges | “See Portor.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) | ||
| Christmas Bush Granite | Australia | (5) | |
| Chuckanut Sandstone | Bellingham, Washington | In operation 1857 to 1908. | |
| Chudleigh Marble | “Chudleigh Quarries, near Torquay, Devonshire, England.” | “Deep black through which run a few white veins and thread-like markings.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Churchtown Marble | “Churchtown Quarries in Cork County, Ireland.” | “Red, speckled with white. A brownish red and black marble is also found at Churchtown.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Ciacci Travertine | “One of the quarries producing Roman Travertine.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) | ||
| Cieix | “See Bleu De Savoie, and Savoie Doree.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) | ||
| Cielo Azul Marble | Argentina | (5) | |
| Cincinnati Limestone | Clermont County, Ohio, USA | Freshly quarried ranges from dark gray to blue | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLIV, No. 12, Dec., 1923 (“A limestone when freshly quarried shows colors ranging from dark gray to blue with a crystalline texture...Quarries no operating (in 1923).”) |
| Cihigue Black Marble | France | (5) | |
| Cincinnati Limestone | Quarried from hillside outcrops of Fairview Formation, Ohio, USA | AKA Blue Limestone | |
| Cintra Marble | Cintra, Estremadura, Portugal. | “Gray Mottled and veined with blue and black.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Cinza Andorinha Grey Granite | Brazil | (5) | |
| Cinza Castelo Granite | Brazil | (5) | |
| Cinza Pratinha Granite | Brazil (Bahia) | (5) | |
| Cipolin Marble (Light & Dark) | West Rutland, Vermont, USA | Light cipolin: A muscovitic calcite marble of light greenish-gray color; Dark Cipolin: A muscovitic calcite marble of bright greenish color alternating with muscovitic (greenish) and calcitic (whitish) | |
| Cipolin Light Marble & Cipolin Dark Marble | West Rutland, Vermont, USA | Light cipolin: a muscovitic calcite marble of light greenish-gray color; Dark Cipolin: a muscovitic calcite marble of bright greenish color alternating with muscovitic (greenish) and calcitic (whitish) | |
| Cipolinnacci di Carrara Marble | Italy | “This is no doubt the same as Cipollino Italian, although name indicates that it comes from Carrara.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) | |
| Cipolino Fleuri Marble | Vermont, USA | Quarried ca 1932. (10) | |
| Cipolino Marble | West Rutland, Vermont, USA | Ground is green or greenish yellow, or yellowish green. also includes streaks or bands of different shades. | Quarried ca 1932. (10) |
| Cipolino Marble | Italy | Greenish grey | |
| Cipolla Marble - Onion | “The name Cipollino is given to this marble because of its resembling the color and wave like lines of an onion.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) | ||
| Cipolline Marble (Cipollino) | Tuscany, Italy | Interior and exterior (12) | |
| Cipollino or Cipollino Medium (American) | “Vermont Marble Company’s Quarry, West Rutland, Vermont.” | “Various shades of slightly yellowish green with waves of a slightly darker shade and veins of light green to brownish green.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Cipollino American Marble | “Eastman’s Quarry, West Rutland, Vermont.” | “Dark Cipollino - Rather dark but almost a decided green not shading towards olive. The veins of variegated green and occasional greenish white are very numerous.” | There are three recognized varieties: Dark Cipollino, Light Cipollino, and Medium Cipollino. (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Cipollino (American Light) Marble | “Vermont Marble Company’s Quarry, West Rutland, Vermont.” USA | “Greenish white to pale green with waves of darker shade with fine veins of from green to dark green.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Cipollino (Canadian) Marble | “Bancroft Quarries, South Ontario, Canada.” | “Consisting of large fragments of dark green serpentine, with occasional paler spots or streaks embedded in a matrix of calcite.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Cipollino (Greek) or Carystus Marble or Marble of Carystus | “Quarries on the Isle of Euboea.” | “Pale green or grayish green with broad and narrow wavy bands of darker shade.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Cipollino Antico (Greek) | Greece | “Light green background with dark green deep violet veins.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Cipollino Classico D'Italia Marble | (8) (antique marble) | ||
| Cipollino D’Elba or Cipollino Italian, or Italian Cipollin | “Quarried on the Island of Elba off the Coast of Italy.” | “Very light pale green with irregular bands and narrow waving veins of darker shade.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Cipollino de St. Maurice | “Quarried near Gap in the Upper Alps.” | “White with large green veins.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Cipollino Dorato Marble | Cuneo, Italy | Interior marble (11) | |
| Cipollino Grand Antique Marble | “See Cipollino (Swiss).” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) | ||
| Cipollino Green Marble | South Ontario, Canada | “A brecciated marble consisting of large fragments of dark green serpentine with occasional lighter colored spots or streaks embedded in the calcite matrix.” | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLV, No. 4, April, 1924 |
| Cipollino Red Marble | “Quarried in Asia Minor.” | “Deep red with broad bands of pinkish white.” | “This was a popular stone in ancient times but no longer available.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Cipollino Rubanne or Rubanne | “See Cipollino Swiss.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) | ||
| Cipollino (Swiss) or Swiss Cipollino Marble | “Quarries at Saillon, near Saxon, in the Canton of Valia.” | (Cipollino Grand Antique) “Pale green with well defined waves and bands of darker shade.” (Cipollino Rubanne or as Rubanne) “Pale green with light waves and bands.” | Occurs in two varieties: (1) Cipollino Grand Antique, or as Grand Antique. (2) Cipollino Rubanne or as Rubanne. (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Cipollino Versilia Marble | Lucca, Italy | Interior marble (11) | |
| Cipollino Zebrino Marble | Carrara, Italy | Interior marble (11) | |
| Cisternino Stone | Bari (Cisternino) Apulia Region, Italy | (12) | |
| Citron Furuli Marble | “Furuli Quarries, Fauski, Nordland, Norway” | “Very faint yellow tinted.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| Cjellebak (Norway) | “Marble deposits are located near this place.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Throvgh The Ages, mag. (circa 1920s) Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
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