American Toy Marbles

They soon had their machinery producing approximately 1000 marbles per hour.

American toy marbles.

It mass produced a million marbles a day and turned out dozens of other toys including the blue santa. 5 out of 5 stars 151 151 reviews 12 00. In 1846 a glassworker in the town of lausche invented the marbelschere or marble scissors a tool that rounded a marble in one step. Most antique marbles are handmade and contain a pontil mark or a rough spot that indicates cutting from a can or glass pontil rod.

From shop oldfoundtreasures. Antique and modern marbles differ in a few key ways including appearance quality perfection and manufacturing process. A marble is a small spherical toy often made from glass clay steel plastic or agate these balls vary in size. Make offer vintage marble game in wooden box with handle 1 2 glass wood marbles small.

Cat s eye marble green glass clear vintage toy game strand colored set marbles strand cat vane old crystal multi brown gold minnesotajunker. It was manufactured on the site by the american marble toy manufacturing co. The following year the two brothers consolidated their companies and operated as the american marble and toy manufacturing company until 1904. These marbles were sold both dyed and undyed.

The dyed examples were most frequently red green yellow and blue. The museum displays a wide range of marbles and other toys and tools from the industry. This company was the first toy marble factory in the usa. Dyke in 1891 in akron.

American toy marble museum. Arizona xiamen cwxstone co ltd unit 1702 33 hubin. Marbles more 7634 highway 69 s springville tn 38256. Favorite add to 50 colorful marbles swirl marbles vintage marbles oldfoundtreasures.

Toy marbles manufacturers in the united states. Vintage marble whacker game american toy company rare marble toy. In the mid 1890s. Toy marbles what are some of the differences between antique and modern marbles.

Antique cane cut glass marbles though some speculate that glass spheres produced near ancient rome were used as marbles the earliest glass toy marbles were made in germany in the middle of the nineteenth century. Most commonly they are about 13 mm 1 2 in in diameter but they may range from less than 1 mm 1 30 in to over 8 cm 3 in while some art glass marbles for display purposes are over 30 cm 12 in wide marbles can be used for a variety of games called marbles. Vintage metal tin toy marble scoring game w luminescent glass marbles.