Anacortes Vitro

[Steph]

Vitro was in Anacortes, Washington from 1989 to 1992.    Small window of time.  These are my examples.  They came in a bag which I naughtily opened.    I wanted to take some nicely detailed pictures but I have been overwhelmed by the prospect since there are so many types, so here they all are.     Now that I have this big group photo out of the way, I can try to provide better detail on any special requests 

[Chad G.]

1 hour ago, Steph said:

Vitro was in Anacortes, Washington from 1989 to 1992.    Small window of time.  These are my examples.  They came in a bag which I naughtily opened.    I wanted to take some nicely detailed pictures but I have been overwhelmed by the prospect since there are so many types, so here they all are.     Now that I have this big group photo out of the way, I can try to provide better detail on any special requests 



 

Nice mib's Steph, I live not far from Anacortes, I'll have to do a little research myself, thanks for sharing and lettin the "cat out of the bag" By the look's of the pile there's definitely a lot of pic's in your very near future.

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[Marbleized]

Thanks Steph!  I need to do some catching up.  Not sure why I haven't been looking through or for marbles lately.  Maybe the days are getting colder so I'm trying to get out into the woods to enjoy the fresh air and wildlife.  And trying to work off last winter's fuel reserves before I start to refuel, if you know what I mean. Any chance of giving the marbles a swoosh to see some of the other sides?  Thanks.

[Al Oregon]

Some Anacortes packaging

[Steph]

On 9/21/2020 at 5:49 PM, Marbleized said:

Thanks Steph!  I need to do some catching up.  Not sure why I haven't been looking through or for marbles lately.  Maybe the days are getting colder so I'm trying to get out into the woods to enjoy the fresh air and wildlife.  And trying to work off last winter's fuel reserves before I start to refuel, if you know what I mean. Any chance of giving the marbles a swoosh to see some of the other sides?  Thanks.

OMG, Gail, this was more than two years ago?  I kept tellin myself I need to do that "soon".    I was certainly correct not to make promises.   (I am still struggling with cameras.)   But now I definitely intend to get some close-ups of my little sample.

And if anyone else has photos with better detail, the more tha merrier.  

[Melissa]

following 🍿☺️

[tankgrrl29]

these were EVERYWHERE (on ebay) when i started collecting. they always caught my eye but if i saw that pinky-purple, it was a dead giveaway. i used to complain that the lots always looked like they had "something" but turned out to not be "anything". 

that said, they really are pretty, and i am happy to have several bottles & jars of them. 

[Ric]

Aren't the Lilacs from Anacortes? And it might just be me, but it seems like they made a lot more marbles with brown on them there too - I think some of those are pretty nice. On the other hand, it also seems like they produced quite a few marbles with a "sheen" on them, which I don't usually care for. And it seems that many of the marbles look more JABOish too. I'd be interested to hear other's thoughts about how production from Anacortes might differ from earlier locations.

These are a a couple of types I find pretty attractive . . .

 

[Al Oregon]

Ric - I don't think Lilacs were only from Anacortes.  Here is a bag that I have. 

 

[Ric]

14 minutes ago, Al Oregon said:

Ric - I don't think Lilacs were only from Anacortes.  Here is a bag that I have.

Thanks for the pic and the correction, Al.

[tankgrrl29]

is Don Miller active on this board? he used to sell groups of these on ebay (and his own website) back when i was a young marble grasshopper. 🦗

[Ric]

51 minutes ago, tankgrrl29 said:

is Don Miller active on this board? . . .

Don has not posted here in over 7 years, which is a bummer. He has a lot to offer and I always appreciated his participation in the conversations. I don't do Facebook except to sneak on my wife's account occasionally to keep up with family. I have a feeling that many people who used to be regulars here have moved to those groups.

[tankgrrl29]

2 hours ago, Ric said:

 I have a feeling that many people who used to be regulars here have moved to those groups.

that's a shame, if so. i'm on FB and my opinion is that it's useless for learning marbles.

agree with you on Don's contributions. he pretty much mentored me when i was new. before i had a camera, i'd send him my marbles to confirm my ID guesses or to take photos for me so i could share them. as i gained experience, we'd do trades, or exchange gifts. can't recall if it was decatur or ottawa where we met in person. every new collector should be so lucky! 

[wvrons]

Don is still with marbles. He attends the FL show regular.  The Vitro Lilacs were made at Parkersburg and Anacortes. So were the horseshoe Cat Eyes. Both of these are usually attributed to Anacortes location only. The Vitro confetti's were made at both locations. 

[Steph]

Four years later, I still owe more pics of this bag of marbles.  *sigh*  I took one today.  While I was in the neighborhood I hunted up this thread.   I'll leave my bag out and try to make to make myself do more.   I wish the detail on that blue one.  It's has more on the surface than the purples, a slightly more Conqueror look.  






Funny ... all Gail asked for back then was a "swoosh" to see some different sides.  I remembered it as a request for something much more involved.  That's how badly I pressure myself over photos. *sigh*

Here's a swoosh.  Enlarges pretty big if you click enough.


 

[YasudaCollector]

Thank you so much for posting this! 🙂 I live only a couple hours away from Anacortes. There's probably tons of these marbles in western Washington. I was also always curious about how to differentiate these guys from other vitro/JABO products. 

[Al Oregon]

Yasuda - are you coming to the Portland Show next month?

[YasudaCollector]

Sorry for the delayed response 😬 I couldn't make it this year (my dad had a birthday trip booked). 

 

I am open for the Seattle show next March though. 

[YasudaCollector]

 

[YasudaCollector]

[YasudaCollector]

Here are some caged cat's eyes I've picked up over time. Do any look like they could be Anacortes types? I've heard they are often hybrids and have very clear glass with lots of teeny tiny bubbles. 

[Steph]

7 hours ago, YasudaCollector said:

Here are some caged cat's eyes I've picked up over time. Do any look like they could be Anacortes types? I've heard they are often hybrids and have very clear glass with lots of teeny tiny bubbles. 

Without packaging or other provenance it can be difficult to tell which decade the cage-style cats came from.  The Parkersburg location was making cage style cats from the 1960s to 1989.  Anacortes only had a small time to operate -- 1989 to 1992.  So odds are Parkersburg for most loose cages.   There's something romantic about the name Anacortes, isn't there.  We want marbles to be that even though that actually means they're more modern.  ( :

[YasudaCollector]

I agree, the name is pretty cool 😆

Since I live pretty close to Anacortes, I always wonder if I'll find any in the various jars I pick up here and there. 

Interestingly, I did read in pinx's book that the workers at Anacortes were given a ton of leeway in the marble making process with color combos (which resulted in a ton of cool hybrids).