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[Steph]

Starting a repository for whatever bits and pieces I come across for marble production by the different companies. I keep thinking I "ought to" so here now I'm starting it. Maybe it will take order some day. Maybe not.

Just one company today. Heaton is the one I was reading about just now.






Heaton Agate Company. Started marble production in 1947. Sold the business to the Bogard family in 1971.

They are said to have used only one machine at a time because of gas shortages but AMMM gives them credit for "millions and millions of marbles" over the life of the company. I guess it adds up!

They had swirls, chinese checker marbles, transparents and cat's eyes. Some marbles went to industrial accounts but not that many. Bogard would later shift the emphasis more to industrial marbles/

[akronmarbles]

Some food for thought....let's say that a duplex machine makes about 2 marbles a second - this works out to 7200 an hour or 86400 a day - or 315,360,000 in a year. A little over 100 days of production would net you around 10 million marbles.

[lstmmrbls]

Or should that say 100 million marbles. heck at 50% waste that is still 50 million a year. Of course Vacor claims to be making 12 million a day!