Marble Making Factory

In the first half of the 20th century ohio was the marble producing capital of the world with dozens of companies making millions of marbles for schoolchildren.

Marble making factory.

But children don t play with marbles much anymore. A few marble companies remain in the united states today including marble king and jabo inc. Below are examples of some new marbles. Filmed in 2004 at the jabo vitro marble co.

It was one of 32 local toy marble companies and one of over 150 local toy companies. Moon marble company peltier glass gompany sellers and joseph peltier learned glassmaking from their french immigrant father victor who specialized in stained glass. In addition we carry traditional toys games as well as gift items for all ages. The glass factory of the m f.

Most of these are 10. See how glass toy marbles are made. The asterisks indicate marbles that were made during demonstrations at the moon marble company. In the early 1920 s peltier glass company began to make a line of marbles producing brightly colored slags swirls corkscrews and agates.

Most marbles however are manufactured in mexico and china. In 1997 this need led us to the opening of the moon marble company store. Christensen son company. The company compound of the m f.

Besides jabo there is only one other marble factory in the united states in west virginia. We stock machine made marbles in a multitude of colors and designs in sizes from pee wees to 50mm. While these are all very colorful and beautiful marbles they hold no particular value to collectors other than current face value. The store is located near the intersection of k 32 hwy 7 in bonner springs ks.