Marble Making Factory

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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. In 1997 this need led us to the opening of the moon marble company store. 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. But children don t play with marbles much anymore.

A few marble companies remain in the united states today including marble king and jabo inc. Besides jabo there is only one other marble factory in the united states in west virginia. The glass factory of the m f. Most marbles however are manufactured in mexico and china.

It was one of 32 local toy marble companies and one of over 150 local toy companies. Handmade glass art marbles made by contemporary glass artists in the u s a. The five buildings making up the compound are still in near original condition. We stock machine made marbles in a multitude of colors and designs in sizes from pee wees to 50mm.

The store is located near the intersection of k 32 hwy 7 in bonner springs ks. The asterisks indicate marbles that were made during demonstrations at the moon marble company. See how glass toy marbles are made. Below are examples of some new marbles.

The company compound of the m f. In addition we carry traditional toys games as well as gift items for all ages. While these are all very colorful and beautiful marbles they hold no particular value to collectors other than current face value. In the early 1920 s peltier glass company began to make a line of marbles producing brightly colored slags swirls corkscrews and agates.