American Marble Toy Manufacturing Company

The company produces rolled glass which is used in windows lamps etc.

American marble toy manufacturing company.

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. Dyke in 1884 at his akron toy company later incorporated as the american marble toy manufacturing company now the site of lock 3 park in akron ohio. The companies expanded to other industries. Dyke s company grew so well that once again he joined with actaeon and a man named james e.

The american marble toy manufacturing co. Toy horns 4 toy manufacturing supplies 9 toy marbles manufacturers 23 toy musical instruments 6 toy pistols 3 toy rifles except air 1 toy trains airplanes and automobiles 42 toys manufacturers 63 trains and equipment toy. Electric and mechanical 75 tricycles 44 video game machines except coin operated 91. The first mass produced toy was made by samuel c.

It was manufactured on the site by the american marble toy manufacturing co. The kokomo opalescent glass company was founded in 1888 in kokomo indiana and continues to operate today. A few years later in 1891 sam dyke founded the american marble toy manufacturing company and it was this factory that became the largest toy company to operate in the united states during the nineteenth century. It mass produced a million marbles a day and turned out dozens of other toys including the blue santa.

In the mid 1890s. Companies and makers in akron quickly began to shut. Leighton a famous glass master and founded the american marble and toy manufacturing company in akron on loch 3 park. By the 1950s japanese toy makers had introduced inexpensive cats eye marbles and quickly began to outsell american makers.

This company was the first toy marble factory in the usa. At this time it employed approximately 350 people. There were 32 toy marble companies located in the greater akron area between 1884 and 1951. 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.

A marble is a small spherical toy often made from glass clay steel plastic or agate these balls vary in size. Produced the oldest known figurine of santa claus known as the blue santa. During the 19th century.