Marble Making Factory

Most marbles however are manufactured in mexico and china.

Marble making factory.

Handmade glass art marbles made by contemporary glass artists in the u s a. Moon marble company peltier glass gompany sellers and joseph peltier learned glassmaking from their french immigrant father victor who specialized in stained glass. Filmed in 2004 at the jabo vitro marble co. Christensen son company 1903 1922 building no.

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. See how glass toy marbles are made. In 1997 this need led us to the opening of the moon marble company store. While these are all very colorful and beautiful marbles they hold no particular value to collectors other than current face value.

The asterisks indicate marbles that were made during demonstrations at the moon marble company. The company compound of the m f. Christensen son company. The glass factory of the m f.

In the early 1920 s peltier glass company began to make a line of marbles producing brightly colored slags swirls corkscrews and agates. The five buildings making up the compound are still in near original condition. A few marble companies remain in the united states today including marble king and jabo inc. Besides jabo there is only one other marble factory in the united states in west virginia.

Below are examples of some new marbles. But children don t play with marbles much anymore. Most of these are 10. In addition we carry traditional toys games as well as gift items for all ages.