Marble Maker In West Virginia

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Marble maker in west virginia.

Glasfirma formerly vacor de mexico general informational sites. 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. Howdyshell the 63 year old owner of marble king inc says an abundance of glass natural gas and cheap labor attracted the earliest marble makers to west virginia. He makes some beautiful abstract swirls flames and sulphides.

He s a real hoot and you ll be fascinated watching him make glass marbles. The national marble museum is now part of this museum. Wilson davis founded the davis marble works in 1947 in pennsboro west virginia. He was a world war ii veteran and purchased an old alley agate marble making machine from corning glass.

See it while this old timer is still around to do it. But children don t play with marbles much anymore. The marbles below are what we had in stock as of 4 27 18. If you re anywhere near northwest west virginia take a side trip to this guy s home and workshop.

Production ended in 1948. Like other glass producers the company was attracted to west virginia because of the abundance of glass sand and natural gas. Akro agate was among the nation s most productive marble makers remaining in business until 1951. Akro agate was founded in ohio in 1910 and moved to clarksburg in 1914.

The west virginia marble collectors club wvmcc was the inspiration of four wood county west virginia residents. Built his glass shop in his back yard. They recognized a need to preserve the history of marbles and to promote the collecting and identification of marbles. Map to recommended offbeat attractions and road trip sights museums monuments tourist traps folk art pet cemeteries.

There are still a few companies mass producing toy marbles. Established in the late 1940 s marble king marbles are highly recognized and respected worldwide. The museum of american glass in west virginia this museum celebrates wv s rich glass heritage a big part of which is marbles. These enthusiastic marble collectors were ron shepherd paula shepherd gary traugh and the late tim wyer.

Like jackson marble company davis marble works did not operate for long. They are signed and dated. Besides jabo there is only one other marble factory in the united states in west virginia. At the bottom of the page are some larger marbles and a cane he did.