The stream there is always uncovering old marbles. It was very fragile, he said, so not many remain. His friend in Paden City has one among her 100,000 or so marbles. Dave McCullough is vice president of Jabo-Vitro, an Ohio marble company that's been in business since the 1930s. Though Jabo-Vitro makes 4 million marbles a day, few are toys.
Industrial marbles are the big thing.
That's a marble. Craft marbles are popular, too. When they're slightly flattened, they're called gems. They go in mosaics, aquariums . . . But once or twice a year, McCullough pumps out a batch of Jabo-Vitro classics.