Marble Making Factory

In addition we carry traditional toys games as well as gift items for all ages.

Marble making factory.

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. It was one of 32 local toy marble companies and one of over 150 local toy companies. Below are examples of some new marbles.

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. Most of these are 10. We stock machine made marbles in a multitude of colors and designs in sizes from pee wees to 50mm.

In 1997 this need led us to the opening of the moon marble company store. The five buildings making up the compound are still in near original condition. While these are all very colorful and beautiful marbles they hold no particular value to collectors other than current face value. The company compound of the m f.

The store is located near the intersection of k 32 hwy 7 in bonner springs ks. Handmade glass art marbles made by contemporary glass artists in the u s a. Besides jabo there is only one other marble factory in the united states in west virginia. See how glass toy marbles are made.

In the early 1920 s peltier glass company began to make a line of marbles producing brightly colored slags swirls corkscrews and agates. But children don t play with marbles much anymore. Christensen son company. Most marbles however are manufactured in mexico and china.