Marble Making Factory

In the early 1920 s peltier glass company began to make a line of marbles producing brightly colored slags swirls corkscrews and agates.

Marble making factory.

We stock machine made marbles in a multitude of colors and designs in sizes from pee wees to 50mm. Besides jabo there is only one other marble factory in the united states in west virginia. A few marble companies remain in the united states today including marble king and jabo inc. But children don t play with marbles much anymore.

In addition we carry traditional toys games as well as gift items for all ages. Christensen son company. It was one of 32 local toy marble companies and one of over 150 local toy companies. The store is located near the intersection of k 32 hwy 7 in bonner springs ks.

Most of these are 10. The asterisks indicate marbles that were made during demonstrations at the moon marble company. 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. Christensen son company 1903 1922 building no.

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

Below are examples of some new marbles. The five buildings making up the compound are still in near original condition. Handmade glass art marbles made by contemporary glass artists in the u s a. The glass factory of the m f.