Photos 5 November 2015

Berry Pink and Sellers Peltier founded Marble King in 1949. Its factory lives in Paden City, West Virginia, where they manufacture over a million marbles each day.

Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg

Scrap glass sits in a pile before being recycled into marbles at the Marble King manufacturing facility in Paden City, West Virginia.
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Scrap glass sits in a pile before being recycled into marbles.
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Red hot glass marbles move down an assembly line during production.
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Red hot glass marbles
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Marbles sit inside a sorting box.
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Marbles are poured into a sorting box to be checked for quality and imperfections.
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A worker assembles pouches of multi-colored marbles.
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The storage room.
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A final product.
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