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Description
A variety of marble of mottled colors usually with pink, gray, white, or brown backgrounds. Tennessee marbles are quarried in the eastern part of the state. They are a hard, compact marble used for exterior and interior decoration and sculpture. Tennessee marbles can have exposed shells or styolites.
Some names for Tennessee marbles are:
- gray Tennessee
- dark cedar
- dark Republic
- F.A.Pink
- Tennessee Pink
- Friendsville Pink
Sources Checked for Data in Record
- G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 499
- Ralph Mayer, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, Harper and Row Publishers, New York, 1969 (also 1945 printing)
- Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996