what kind of patch?

[ILikeHelmets]

a couple more....name the patch please?

Thanks to all...

[Steph]

More Tiger Eyes

[ILikeHelmets]

what doth make a tiger eye? the white and 3 colors?

[Steph]

The Tiger Eye was a veneered style.  Could have white or clear in the middle.  With the colored ribbons layered over the base. 

Most had white on the surface. Not all did though. 

 

This article was written some years back by a Vitro guru who was studying the different types of Tiger Eyes Vitro made in the 50's.

http://joemarbles.com/3Marble Articles/Chuck Brandstetter/What is a Vitro Tiger Eye.htm

Description of four Tiger Eye combos from the article:  

*Type 1…A clear base glass with a color patch on top, a white patch on the bottom and a two color (half & half) ribbon in the middle (Photo 1).

*Type 2…A clear base glass with a color patch on top, a different color patch on the bottom and a one color (half & half) ribbon in the middle (Photo 2).

*Type 3…A clear base glass with a color patch on top, a different color patch on the bottom and a white (half & half) ribbon in the middle (Photo 3).

Type 4…An opaque white base glass with a color patch on top, a different color patch on the bottom and a white (half & half) ribbon in the middle. (Photo 4).

 

 

 

 

[Steph]

The pix in that article are a little fuzzy.  Hoping we can gin up some more pix in this new thread I started:

http://marbleconnection.com/topic/22953-vitro-tiger-eyes/