Vitro Confetti

[Fire1981]

I have a marble in my collection that was identified as a Vitro Confetti by the later Bo Stiff. Right now I can’t find it. It’s on clear baseglass with multiple colors of grit. I think what sets it apart from a Vacor is that the Vacor’s grit is on the surface and the Vitro has a smooth surface. It’s probably 3/4ths or 7/8ths. I think there was a Lady that put together a short run to make these. Does anyone know more these about marbles ?

[Ric]

I don't know a lot about them but I think they were made at the Anacortes location. I think there are white and clear based ones. Most I have seen have a single color frit on a white base. But I do think there are some with multicolor frit on clear. I thought they were 5/8" marbles but I am not entirely sure about that. @wvrons probably knows more about them.

And I do think you are right about the frit being more "melted in" on the Vitros when compared to Vacors but I don't think the Vitro surfaces are entirely smooth.

[wvrons]

The first Vitro Confetti marbles were produced by Louie Moore plant manager at Parkersburg.  That was Linda Simmons father.  Louie's son brought several to a WVMCC meeting back about 2001-2003. He sold all of them there. They were all single color frit. The frit was smooth. They were all near 7/8 size. There were all opaque white base.  {Possible he could have made some clear base ?

Vitro Anacortes also made a few Confetti marbles.  They were 5/8 size. Maybe some 7/8 size ???  I think they were all single color frit. Most (not all) of those the frit was smooth. Raylon Dalton, Al  Rasmus, and other nw coast people may have more info ? 

The odds are that 99% of the Confetti marbles are Vacor. They made about every color, and size. Some are rough surface but some can be smooth. 

It is a big problem knowing or convincing people if they are Vitro or Mexico.  Unless you know exactly their life trail.  So most Confetti marbles do not have much value any longer. 

Good luck !

[schmoozer]

1 hour ago, wvrons said:

The first Vitro Confetti marbles were produced by Louie Moore plant manager at Parkersburg.  That was Linda Simmons father.  Louie's son brought several to a WVMCC meeting back about 2001-2003. He sold all of them there. They were all single color frit. The frit was smooth. They were all near 7/8 size. There were all opaque white base.  {Possible he could have made some clear base ?

Vitro Anacortes also made a few Confetti marbles.  They were 5/8 size. Maybe some 7/8 size ???  I think they were all single color frit. Most (not all) of those the frit was smooth. Raylon Dalton, Al  Rasmus, and other nw coast people may have more info ? 

The odds are that 99% of the Confetti marbles are Vacor. They made about every color, and size. Some are rough surface but some can be smooth. 

It is a big problem knowing or convincing people if they are Vitro or Mexico.  Unless you know exactly their life trail.  So most Confetti marbles do not have much value any longer. 

Good luck !

Excellent summary Ron, thank you! My first marbles were from my second MIL, Vacor meteors in 1999. Been looking for the real deal ever since.

I’m pretty sure she is up there laughing her ass off at what she started.

[Al Oregon]

Raelyn's son had posted this picture a few years ago and Bo had posted the other two back in the 2004 time frame.

 

[Fire1981]

Thanks everyone! I just wish I could find it.

[Melissa]

I had these with my vacor but after seeing these pictures I’m wondering if they are vitro?

[Chad G.]

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[Melissa]

2 minutes ago, Chad G. said:

   .... Oh, it's real

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I should I have said that I bumped this old post to see if mine were vitro. This post is from last year fyi.

[Chad G.]

7 minutes ago, Melissa said:

I should I have said that I bumped this old post to see if mine were vitro. This post is from last year fyi.

Seen the dates, I just put the Anacortes in for somethin to drool over, not a very pretty mib IMO but not many produced if yer into that kinda thing.  I have a hard time w/ these since there's so many copycats, an in hand marble ID for me.

[Ric]

1 hour ago, Melissa said:

I had these with my vacor but after seeing these pictures I’m wondering if they are vitro?

It's interesting to me that yesterday you said "these marbles are the worst", and now you seem to have taken a liking to them. 😉

The likelihood that you are going to find four Vitro Confettis together in the wild is so near zero that I think you can discount the possibility entirely. The other issue is that if they actually were Vitro you would never be able to convince anyone of it so they still would have the collectible/monetary value of a Vacor.

The only way I would ever trust that I had a Vitro Confetti is if it came directly out of Linda Simmons hands and into mine - Ron said the same thing. Linda brought her collection to the Indianapolis Show in January and we looked at them over and over, and compared every detail side by side with similar Vacors. While there may be some differences between a particular Confetti and a particular Vacor, those differences were not reliable indicators since they didn't hold true for every pair compared.

As far as I am concerned, iron clad provenance is really the only way you will ever know you have a Vitro Confetti, at least one from the Parkersburg location, so it is only provenance that imparts any real collectible or monetary value to those marbles. I am not as familiar with the ones made later at Anacortes, since I have only seen one or two with provenance in hand. But I have a feeling the same sort of issues might pertain to them.

[Melissa]

11 minutes ago, Ric said:

It's interesting to me that yesterday you said "these marbles are the worst", and now you seem to have taken a liking to them. 😉

The likelihood that you are going to find four Vitro Confettis together in the wild is so near zero that I think you can discount the possibility entirely. The other issue is that if they actually were Vitro you would never be able to convince anyone of it so they still would have the collectible/monetary value of a Vacor.

The only way I would ever trust that I had a Vitro Confetti is if it came directly out of Linda Simmons hands and into mine - Ron said the same thing. Linda brought her collection to the Indianapolis Show in January and we looked at them over and over, and compared every detail side by side with similar Vacors. While there may be some differences between a particular Confetti and a particular Vacor, those differences were not reliable indicators since they didn't hold true for every pair compared.

As far as I am concerned, iron clad provenance is really the only way you will ever know you have a Vitro Confetti, at least one from the Parkersburg location, so it is only provenance that imparts any real collectible or monetary value to those marbles. I am not as familiar with the ones made later at Anacortes, since I have only seen one or two with provenance in hand. But I have a feeling the same sort of issues might pertain to them.

Got it. Thank you!!