Age For Vitro Agate All Reds With A Metallic Sheen

[mmuehlba]

Hi just wondering the age on some Vitro all reds I have a lot of them have a metallic sheen over the marble ,mostly the red and black . I have seen a lot of them so are these 1980 's 1970's OR ??

Mike

[Al Oregon]

I looked through pictures of my Vitro All Red bags (with the name All Red in the header) and the Gladding-Vitro All Red bags and did not see any that had the metallic sheen look. That would be late 50's to 1969 as Vitro and then 1969-82 as G-V(and a couple years into the Paris Manufacturing era after G-V). I did find a couple of Paris bags that appeared to have marbles with a metallic sheen. Also, a couple other bags without Paris on it had some of the Vitro blue metallic marbles in it along with some All Reds that appear to have sheen. I added the pics below. I did not find anything resembling the All Reds in the Anarcortes packaging so it was probably before then (even though some Anacortes marbles had a metallic sheen). So, in guessing, I'd say 1980's.

[mmuehlba]

Hi Al that looks like the marbles in the bags , mind if I use a few of the pictures when I list them on the bay ? Mike

[Al Oregon]

That's fine - all my pics can be used by anybody (as long as they are not saying that they are selling that specific bag...).

[Poplarhead]

I agree with Al that age of these metallic sheen Allreds are 1980s based on many collections I have bought over the years. The veneering effect by this time was well perfected by Vitro to cut costs.

Don