Marble Making Factory

A few marble companies remain in the united states today including marble king and jabo inc.

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. We stock machine made marbles in a multitude of colors and designs in sizes from pee wees to 50mm. Most marbles however are manufactured in mexico and china. Besides jabo there is only one other marble factory in the united states in west virginia.

While these are all very colorful and beautiful marbles they hold no particular value to collectors other than current face value. In the early 1920 s peltier glass company began to make a line of marbles producing brightly colored slags swirls corkscrews and agates. The store is located near the intersection of k 32 hwy 7 in bonner springs ks. It was one of 32 local toy marble companies and one of over 150 local toy companies.

Most of these are 10. Christensen son company. In 1997 this need led us to the opening of the moon marble company store. The asterisks indicate marbles that were made during demonstrations at the moon marble company.

The company compound of the m f. Christensen son company 1903 1922 building no. But children don t play with marbles much anymore. Handmade glass art marbles made by contemporary glass artists in the u s a.

Filmed in 2004 at the jabo vitro marble co. See how glass toy marbles are made. The five buildings making up the compound are still in near original condition. Below are examples of some new marbles.