![]() The company also produced and marketed a game called “Trap the Fox” in the lateġ940s. Both of these original packages are hard to find. Cairo also marketed marbles in boxes with their own name. Their major account was Woolworth’s, and they packaged mesh bags with the Woolworth’s label The company produced a wide variety of swirls from peewee size to 3/4”. The company had only one marble machine, but a design innovation by Hanlon (which is patented) allowed it to produce marblesĪt a fifty percent faster rate than any other machine at the time. Late in the prior year by Oris Hanlon, who had left Heaton Agate Company. With the financial backing of two local merchants (John Sandy and Dennis Farley), it had been formed The Cairo Novelty Company began operations in 1948 in Cairo, West Virginia. Many ofĬhampion’s swirls are difficult to distinguish from those made by other West Virginia companies during that time. During the 1950s, Champion began production of transparent and translucent base swirls. ![]() Glass, as opposed to the swirls by many other companies that cover the majority of the white. On these marbles there is usually one color in addition to the white, with swirl patterns forming ribbons that fill little of the base Most Champion Agate opaque swirls are opaque white-based. Champion continued to produce marbles at least through the mid-2000s. Years, perhaps most prominently the “Furnace Scraping” marbles of 1994. Champion also produced a variety of the “wire pull” during this period. White, and blue swirls in 1976 that were the company’s contribution to the “Bicentennial Special Pack”, a package of marbles containing examples from most of the companies still operating at thatĬhampion revived two old styles in 19, the “Whirlwind” and “Old Fashioned”. However, from time to time, Champion would do limited production runs of swirls. In the mid-1970s, theĬompany ceased production of all swirls and patches, concentrating on Chinese Checkers. Very soon thereafter, the company moved into opaque swirls, transparent swirls, and opaque patches. ![]() The first marbles the company produced were clearies and Chinese Checkers. Passed over time through several members of the Michels family. It was founded by Lawrence Jacup Jones, J.B. The Champion Agate Company began operations in Pennsboro, West Virginia, in 1938. Many of the swirl designs are similar to Christensen Agate and Alley Many Ravenswood swirls are very unique in terms of coloring and design. Swirls can contain two, three, and four colors. Common base colors include white, light green, green, light blue, yellow, light purple, and cream. Many transparent swirls contain one color, in addition to wispy white swirls. Typically, marbles with an opaque base will be swirled with translucent or transparent, and those with transparent base will be swirled with opaque Ravenswood made transparent and opaque swirls. Ravenswood’s marble machines were sold to Bogard Glass Company, and later moved to Champion Agate Company. Though these marbles may have been purchased from Vitro Agate. It has been reported that as late as 1959, Ravenswood was supplying industrial marble to Krylon Paint for use in spray cans, ![]() Operations ended in 1955, when Turnbull’s son-in-law, Paul Cox, who ran the companyĪfter the deaths of Turnbull and his wife, decided to close the plant. The Ravenswood Novelty Company began operations in 1932, under the guidance of John Turnbull. > Machine Made Marbles > Machine Family Tree.
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