Playing Marbles In The Usa In The 1930s

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Playing marbles in the usa in the 1930s.

Many collectors obsess over old marbles because they remember playing with them as children. Ringers is played at the national marbles tournament at left held over four days in june since 1922 in wildwood new jersey with winners in both the boys and girls divisions since 1948 the. The game has been around for hundreds of years and continues in popularity today. American manufacturers dominated the marble market until the introduction of japanese cat s eye marbles in the 1950s.

German hand production continued until the earliest forms of machine production began in the early 1900 s. Machine made marbles reached the peak of their popularity in the late 1920s and 1930s when competition between manufacturers made marbles plentiful and cheap. The scene differed a little from my own. In the late 1930s kokomo purchased a marble making machine from peltier glass company and used it to produce marbles made from the glass rejected in their rolling process.

The company produces rolled glass which is used in windows lamps etc. White marble and alabaster marbles were the best playing pieces during the early 1800s. The kokomo opalescent glass company was founded in 1888 in kokomo indiana and continues to operate today. Rare french stamping 1930s vintage edwardian children playing marbles raw ginger brass jewelry finding decorative trim 50x25mm 1 pc.

The decade that spanned the late 1920s and 1930s is referred to by collectors as the golden age of marbles. Companies like christensen peltier glass akro agate and vitro agate. A marble is a small spherical toy often made from glass clay steel plastic or agate these balls vary in size. Starpower99 from shop starpower99.

I arrived at a local school today and to my delight the kids in the playground were playing marbles before school.