Moon Marble Company

Moon Marble Company is a marble, toy, and game store in Bonner Springs, Kansas, founded in 1997 by artisan Bruce Breslow. It is a regional Kansas City-metro destination best known for Breslow’s live, torch-fired hand-marble-making demonstrations — watched from gymnasium-style bleachers — alongside a retail floor of machine-made and handmade marbles, traditional toys, and games.¹²

Description

Moon Marble Company is a retail shop in Bonner Springs, Kansas, that combines a marble-and-toy store with a working glass studio. The store sells machine-made marbles in a wide range of colors and designs — from pee-wees up to 50mm — as well as handmade art marbles, traditional toys, games, and gift items.¹

The shop’s signature draw is live marble-making. Owner and artisan Bruce Breslow performs torch-work demonstrations for visitors, melting colored glass rods over a propane-and-oxygen flame, pushing molten glass into graphite molds, and manipulating the glass with metal picks to produce the swirled spheres favored by collectors. Visitors watch from gymnasium-style metal bleachers, with overhead screens fed by cameras trained on Breslow’s hands and workbench. During demonstrations Breslow narrates the glassworking process and shares marble history.²³

Ownership and history

Moon Marble Company was founded in 1997 by Bruce Breslow, a former wood craftsman who turned to glass marble-making. As of 2025 he had been making marbles for roughly 30 years. Reporting identifies Linda Sproules as co-owner.¹²

The business sits near the intersection of Kansas highways K-32 and Hwy 7 in Bonner Springs, in the western Kansas City metro. It has operated as a destination for marble enthusiasts, collectors, and families for nearly three decades and was named one of the “8 Wonders of Kansas Commerce” by the Kansas Sampler Foundation.⁴⁵

Links

• Official site: https://www.moonmarble.com/
• About: https://www.moonmarble.com/t-about.aspx
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MoonMarbleCompany/

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Disputes

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Footnotes

1. Moon Marble Company — official site, “About Us.” https://www.moonmarble.com/t-about.aspx — asserts: founded 1997 by Bruce Breslow; address 600 East Front Street, Bonner Springs, KS 66012; machine-made marbles (pee-wees to 50mm) plus toys, games, gifts; Breslow frequently demonstrates marble making. ↩ ↩² ↩³

2. KCUR, “At Moon Marble in Bonner Springs, an old-fashioned glass artform is still thriving” (Aug. 1, 2025). https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2025-08-01/at-moon-marble-in-bonner-springs-an-old-fashioned-glass-artform-is-still-thriving — asserts: open/active Aug. 2025; founded 1997; Bruce Breslow owner (co-owner Linda Sproules); ~30 years making marbles; former wood craftsman; torch demonstrations; located near K-32/Hwy 7 outside Kansas City, KS. ↩ ↩² ↩³

3. Kansas Sampler Foundation, “8 Wonders of Kansas Commerce — Moon Marble Company.” https://kansassampler.org/8wondersofkansas-commerce/moon-marble-company-bonner-springs — asserts: demonstration setup (bleachers, graphite molds, color-swirl marbles); located near K-32 & Hwy 7. ↩

4. KSHB, “This Bonner Springs marble shop has been unifying generations of customers for nearly 3 decades.” https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/kansas/wyandotte-county/this-bonner-springs-marble-shop-has-been-unifying-generations-of-customers-for-nearly-3-decades — asserts: nearly three decades in operation; family/multi-generational customer base. ↩

5. Yelp — Moon Marble Company, Bonner Springs, KS. https://www.yelp.com/biz/moon-marble-company-bonner-springs — asserts: address 600 E Front St, Bonner Springs, KS 66012; phone (913) 441-1432; store hours. ↩