The Jackson Marble Company was a short-lived West Virginia glass marbles company from Pennsboro, W.V. which was in operation from 1945-1946.

In this video we work with Ron Shepherd and David Tamulevich as we tour their Jackson marbles collections and describe, identify and discuss the marbles Jackson was known to produced.

This promising West Virginia Swirl company wasn’t around long enough to produce many color combinations in their marbles, making their marbles rare to find, and their marble models list relatively short with some being very distinctive.

The company, owned by Carroll Jackson had difficulty finding customers to sell their marbles and many were thought to have been sold off in bulk, along with their mesh packaging bags to the neighboring Playrite Marble and Novelty Company as they closed for business.

We look at all of Jackson’s known marble examples in this video, and present our “Super Seven” picks of their most sought-after and collectable “Unique to Jackson” marbles. Ron Shepherd explains, in detail Jackson’s packaging products and gives us some insights to Playrite Marbles owner Mary Jane Wilson.

Special thank you to Ron, David, Dale Simmons, Mike Johnson, Sammy Hogue and Rick See for their valuable input for this video.

For more information on this company, we suggest reading the “American Machine-Made Marbles” book (Six, Metzler,Johnson) (published in 2006 Shiffer Books)

The first two audio tracks in this video are instrumentals written and performed by David Tamulevich: “Marching Through Cairo” and “95”. All songs in this video are used with permission from the artists and the artists company.

This video is dedicated to Dayln “Dale” M. Simmons of Pennsboro (1940-2023) forever friend in the marble-collecting community.

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