Information snippet:   1987 - Jean Mills inadvertently breeds the first documented Marble Bengal.  "1987, another surprise! Cinders and Torchbearer had an astonishing new kind of kitten. She was a spectacular little female with an odd soft, cream-colored coat and weird pattern that looked like drizzled caramel.....  I hadn't intended to include anything except spots in my first standard, but 'by popular demand' the marbles were added, thanks to jewel-like Painted Desert and Emberglow"