Marble Making Factory

Christensen son company 1903 1922 building no.

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

Handmade glass art marbles made by contemporary glass artists in the u s a. The glass factory of the m f. While these are all very colorful and beautiful marbles they hold no particular value to collectors other than current face value. Christensen son company.

Below are examples of some new marbles. Moon marble company peltier glass gompany sellers and joseph peltier learned glassmaking from their french immigrant father victor who specialized in stained glass. 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. The five buildings making up the compound are still in near original condition.

But children don t play with marbles much anymore. The company compound of the m f. The asterisks indicate marbles that were made during demonstrations at the moon marble company. It was one of 32 local toy marble companies and one of over 150 local toy companies.

Filmed in 2004 at the jabo vitro marble co. Besides jabo there is only one other marble factory in the united states in west virginia. In addition we carry traditional toys games as well as gift items for all ages. In 1997 this need led us to the opening of the moon marble company store.