Mi Marble´s de los años 30
Webster L. Marble,Un poco de su historia en imagenes.
1887 Webster Marble moves family to Gladstone, Michigan.
1890 Marble founds Gladstone Exchange Bank and is President.
1892 Manufactures Universal Rifle Sight and incorporates as Gladstone Manufacturing Company.
1893 Makes first Pocket Axes; recession causes Panic of 1893.
1894 Marble returns to surveying and timber cruising.
1898 Patents Safety Pocket Axe and incorporates as Marble Safety Axe Company.
1899 Exhibits first products at Sports Expo in Madison Square Garden.
1902 Introduces Improved Front Sight; British Army adopts Marbles No. 3 Safety Pocket Axes.
1903 Patents Automatic Flexible Joint Rear Sight.
1909 New 24,000 square foot factory completed and lauded as “Finest of its kind in the world.”
1910 First Game Getter Guns shipped from the factory.
1912 Magazine advertising reaches 20,000,000 readers world wide.
1913 Theodore Roosevelt carries Marble’s compasses during Expandicao Scientifica exploration of Brazilian wilderness.
1914 WWI U.S. Army trucks equipped with Marble’s compasses.
1916 British government buys Marble’s hunting knives for Army issue.
1927 Charles Lindbergh carries Marble’s knife, compass, and matchbox on first solo transatlantic flight.
1930 Founder, Webster Marble dies. Son William becomes President; son Floyd is President of subsidiary Marble Card.
1957 Marble Arms is purchased by Bell and Gossett Inc.
1958 Marble Arms Corporation sells 500 Pilot Survival knives to U.S. Navy and releases proprietary manufacturing specifications.
1966 New plant.
A partir de los años 90 se llevaron toda la produccion a China.