Steph

Thanks Bo.

Ooh, some nice contrast in the new group.

Here's one which was tagged as a Bogard. 3 different kinds of glass in the vanes. Some transparent. Fascinating in hand.

I'm going to disagree with that.

Vitro's mibs with two colors in one vane are so common that it has been concluded they were intentional and thus perhaps not deserving of the name hybrid. I've heard that said anyway.

I'm not saying not to call the Vitros hybrids but how can an intentional "hybrid" rob the name from, say, a marble which is truly a blend of more than one type, such as a changeover between runs.

Maybe a marble such as mine in post #3 could more accurately be called "error". But as of this morning I'm standing by hybrid as a great name for them. Maybe I'm wrong but I don't remember anyone else ever saying that the name only applied to Vitros.

Elizabeth? Paula? Am I full of it? . . . uh, on this subject? rofl

Okay, we need more pix. LOL. Words bad. Marbles good.

LOL. I'm excited to have them. I just didn't remember it! How could I forget them? I need to visit my marbles more often !!1!

What are salt-glazed marbles? Who made them?

P.s., when do you have too many marbles? I just found 3 micas. That may not sound like many to you. But I didn't remember having any. LOL. I might have too many marbles.

But anyway, I have a black ceramic marble, which doesn't seem quite like a Bennington. And a couple of different looking brown ones also. And I'm wondering if any of them might be the kind I once upon a time saw described as salt-glazed.

Nifty. Was that found at the AMT excavation site?

p.s., here's Kedo. He has adopted my husband.

Gray tail and gray spot on his head. And he's feisty.

My fluffy boy is Brother. His short hair sibling is Joe. (Big guy was the Batweasel. And he had a white bikini. With a little white bowtie.)

Brother is my soulmate actually. He was a consolation prize of sorts and turned out to be an indescribeable joy.

He has a little white spot under his neck. That's the reason I have him - because my aunt didn't want the cat with the white spot. I chose Joe first, but had decided to take two. So I took that ugly spikey hair kitten with the white spot. And I named him Bad Hair Day. And took that ugly spikey hair cat home. And fell in love.

He's fiercely faithful to me too.

(lol @ ugly, but at the time, I had no idea how he would fill out and all I saw were the spikes. I wanted another sleek cat like the Batweasel used to be but I also wanted the spare kitten for Joe to play with, so there he was)

Gorgeous boys! I never saw faces like that.

So sweet and so sad.

My two little boys (who are not at all little now) were litter mates. Their mother was siamese. Their father was a white barn cat. We are very close also.

But don't get the idea that I like cats.

fixed. :-)

Thanks Winnie. That's the bag. Does have a little different look to it. That's why it stood out to me.

Gladding sounds good to me.

That might have been it. Sounds about right. Thanks.

I remember someone posted a bag of marbles which looked like Vitros. It might not have been marked Vitro though. The bag might have been Winnie's.

My picture retrieval ability is all shot to heck, so I can't go look it up. So I thought I'd put this out there as an open question. Could be more fun that way.

What do you have by way of modern-ish Vitro packaging? Or probable Vitros! :-)

Say 1960 to 1990. Thank you very much.

wow, I'd never seen one like that black and white.

Catastrophe. haha. That's what I thought at the time. Now I wish I had played more marbles with my boy. *sniffle*

Mr. Batweasel used to like marbles. and buttons.

I would have said so earlier, but it makes me cry to think of it because I didn't let him play with them very much. I wish I had. All day long. :-)

More pix would be lovely. I love pix of kitties.

Mr. Batweasel and two of my present babies, from 10 years ago.

Counting this one, I'm up to two.

Looks like nice condition.

Obviously notmiller. not with that feathering

Of course it's okay! You already put your obligatory marble in at least one of the photos! What could anyone complain about?! LOL

Here's a page which mentions different chemicals used in coloring glass. I can't vouch for its accuracy, but it looks pretty cool so far.

http://1st-glass.1st-things.com/articles/glasscolouring.html

Update.

Yellow Jackets and Blackies were still being advertised in the late 1960's. This is confusing to me!

Wondering if it was old material recycled in a new ad, or if the styles were really still being made then, or if the names were being used but the styles were not. or what?

Here's the 1968 ad Al posted. Edit: it's a 1965 ad. Still a little late. I'm leaning to the theory that the ad writers might not have been up-to-date on Vitro's actual production. Seems to me that All-Reds should have been in this ad in 1965, if any named patch styles were there. To the best of my understanding at this time.

darlin' kitteh!

Pic overflows with personality.

Neat!

Took me a minute or 10 to figure out the "not so micro-crystalline" part of the title. *embarrassed* Those are some cool little bits.

Really is very cool.

Ya made decals?

Neat machine!

Sue, just remember. Men came up with imaginary numbers.