Marble Making Factory

The store is located near the intersection of k 32 hwy 7 in bonner springs ks.

Marble making factory.

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

Filmed in 2004 at the jabo vitro marble co. In addition we carry traditional toys games as well as gift items for all ages. A few marble companies remain in the united states today including marble king and jabo inc. Moon marble company peltier glass gompany sellers and joseph peltier learned glassmaking from their french immigrant father victor who specialized in stained glass.

The asterisks indicate marbles that were made during demonstrations at the moon marble company. See how glass toy marbles are made. Most marbles however are manufactured in mexico and china. We stock machine made marbles in a multitude of colors and designs in sizes from pee wees to 50mm.

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. It was one of 32 local toy marble companies and one of over 150 local toy companies. 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.

Most of these are 10. Christensen son company 1903 1922 building no. But children don t play with marbles much anymore. In the early 1920 s peltier glass company began to make a line of marbles producing brightly colored slags swirls corkscrews and agates.