Sorting Cats Eyes

[Fire1981]

I’m trying sort this tray. Anyone want to help ? 

[Fire1981]

This was supposed to be first. 

[akroorka]

Good luck Fire, sorting cats for me is like hearding them---get a good herding dog to help!

Marble--On!!

[Fire1981]

I think Vitro made the 6 ribbon Cats Eyes. I have some with 8 and I don't knows those. I thinks there's a few Shepards with a some good Healers that might help me  here. The Black ones are tricky.

[akroorka]

Great images by the way.

That black and white one deserves a closer look imho. Never seen one like that.(upper right in the first image)

Bogard made some black cats, Master glass did too.

Marble--On!!

[Fire1981]

Getting the IDs on Black Cats confirmed is always a good thing. Actually all of these would be even better.

[akroorka]

I circled one--are you sure that it is a cat?

[akroorka]

I am pretty confidant that the ones with the x's are foriegn made.

[Fire1981]

I wasn't sure about the one you circled. It has 6 ribbons with with a yellow veneered ribbon that covers 2 of the ribbons. The green one to the left of the one one with the funky black ribbon is an MK. The 4 ribbons are just wisps of transparent green with a piece of Space Junk. Pics with the new are still a work in progress  

[Fire1981]

Tic Tac Toe 🔥

[Ric]

I think the bubbly black ones may be Bogards.

[wvrons]

I think 80% are foreign to the US.  Asian and Vacor.  Vitro made cage cats with many numbers of vanes 4-5-6-7-8-9.  Different colored nine vane Asian cat eyes are nice looking. But hard to find any longer. 

[Fire1981]

Did Vitro produce Gladding marbles in the ‘70s ? 

[wvrons]

 In 1969 Henery Fisher sold very cheap the Vitro Agate Company to Gladding from Syracuse NY. Actually Gladding-Kalamazoo was a WV corp. who made the purchase. The name then changed to Gladding-Vitro Agate Company.  Gladding-Vitro Agate then was sold to Paris Manfacturing Corp. of South Paris, Maine in 1982. They sold old stock under the Gladding-Vitro Agate packaging. In 1980 Gladding had only two machines running making 316,000 marbles per day. They were shut down as much as they were running. Many employees laid off out of work. When Paris Manufacturing bought the factory, production doubled. But the business went downhill fast through late 1982-84. Their cullet supplier cut them off for non payment. March 2,1988 production was stopped for three months. Paris Industries filed for bankruptcy. August 1987 Viking Rope Company of Anacortes, Washington purchased Vitro Agate Corp. In Sept.1987 Viking Rope Company became a WV Corp.  In Oct.1989 the move of everything Vitro to Anacotrtes WA began. Anacortes production ended in 1992.  December 1992  trucks began hauling everything Vitro back to Reno Ohio where Jabo Inc. was formed. The Vitro Company name was owned by Jack Bogard and Jabo.  Jabo Inc. is no longer in business.  The Jabo property and all contents have been sold to different people.   

[Ric]

28 minutes ago, wvrons said:

 In 1969 Henery Fisher sold very cheap the Vitro Agate Company to Gladding from Syracuse NY.

Thanks for the history lesson, Ron. It's really interesting. It seems like the Vitro Agate brand had a slow decline to oblivion. Am I right to assume that Henrey Fisher was Art's son?

[wvrons]

Henry Arthur Fisher was founder and owner of Vitro Agate.  Henry-Henery-Arthur-Art  all depends on which document or which lawyers secretary typed it up. That is the problem researching legal documents, state and county court house records, newspaper clippings, and old interviews.  Names may be different or spelled different but can end up being the same person.  Henry and Art same person.  

[Chris Parson]

On 3/12/2022 at 12:14 AM, akroorka said:

I am pretty confidant that the ones with the x's are foriegn made.

Nice post @Fire1981! I was just about to ask about the second one from the left in the middle row. I have similar ones in both red, green, blue and yellow.