Found in woods 30+ years ago..

[Falista]

A little backstory here. I know nothing about marbles. I found this one in the woods behind my family home when I was a teenager. It was partially buried in dirt next to some dead trees and rotten logs. It's kind of a miracle that I even noticed it. My brother and I and some of our friends were really the only kids that frequented the trails in these woods. The area where I found the marble was at least twenty feet away from the trail and we were probably about 1/2 mile away from any house. When I was growing up, I had been told there was once a small house out in the woods not too far from where I found the marble but that house was gone long before my parents bought our home in the 1970s. 

I recently came across this marble in my jewelry box. I kept it because I always thought it was weird that I found it way out there in the middle of nowhere. It has a little imperfection in the white area which I'm assuming is the pontil? It was hard to get a good picture of it, but you can see it from the side as a little indentation. It's kind of a widened "U" shape. Just curious to know what it might be.

 

[Fire1981]

That is a Vitros! I don’t know my IDs that well but someone here will know. It’s either an All Red,Blackie or ???? 🔥

[Carowill]

I think it is a black-line all-red Vitro.

[William]

I think I would be doing some research followed by some possible digging! 😊

[Falista]

Thank you all so much! Anyone have any idea how old it might be? One website dates this particular type as being made between 1950-1960. From what I have read, it appears to be machine made and not handmade, then?

[Chad G.]

Your mib is 100% machine made, only handmades have pontils. Here's a Vitro ID guide link for ya

LINK ::   https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/mibzandmore/vitro-agate-id-guide-t35.html

[wvrons]

A machine made marble by Vitro Agate Parkersburg WV. It is a Black Line All Red.  The Black Line All Reds were the first All Red marbles Vitro produced.  Vitro produced All Red marbles until they closed in Parkersburg in 1986. The Black Line All Reds were produced from about the early 1940's until about 1960. The Black Line All Reds continued production even when the lesser All Reds were produced. Competition and cost cutting caused Vitro to drop the black or dark color around the middle of the marble. Vitro named these marbles All Red because when a kid would shoot or roll the marble it would always flash red. Kids favorite color choice was red. Vitro All Reds and Vitro Conqueror marbles are a couple of the most common seen or found and a long time of production by Vitro Agate marbles. They were made by the millions per week, per year.  

Machine made marbles have no pontil. They are not gathered and made on a rod. They are made at a rate of about 200-250 per minute. 

Age does not make a marble valuable. Many newer marbles can be as valuable as older marbles.  Your marble is worth about 25 cents to $3.00 . 

The dent, crease or groove is a roll mark. The hot marbles are rounded in long grooved rollers. 

[Fire1981]

Told Ya 🔥

[Fire1981]

OK….maybe I sounded like a butthead in my last response. What I was reconfirming is that others would definitely know the ID on your marble🔥

[Falista]

Very interesting! I figured it probably wasn't worth much money, but it has sentimental value so it's just nice knowing where it was made and what it's called. Mostly I wanted to know how old it is. I suspected it was probably older than me when I found it and if it was made sometime between the 1940s to 1960, it definitely is. It could even be older than my parents, who were born in the 1950s. It may have been laying half-buried in the woods out behind my childhood home for close to forty years before I found it!

[Da Roberto]

Sentimental marbles are the best marbles!

[Fire1981]

I agree with Roberto 🔥

[wvrons]

I have many 25 cents or $5.00 marbles that I would never sell.  Value has many different meanings. 

[Fire1981]

Hope I’m not highjacking this thread. This is a new sentimental marble I just got yesterday. It’s 7/8. Would this be an All Red as well 🔥

[akroorka]

20 hours ago, wvrons said:

It is a Black Line All Red.

Just sayin!!
Marble--On!!

[Falista]

The other day I was talking to my dad and I mentioned the marble and how I came to this forum to find out more about it. He brought up that it was pretty common for people to use marbles in slingshots. So I think that answers my question about how it ended up way out in the middle of the woods. 😆

[wvrons]

All Red has no dark color around the middle. Black Line All Red has a dark ribbon around the middle. The Black Line All Red is the original oldest All Red. Later it was cheaper and more simple to just drop the black line around the middle. 

Black Line All Red = oldest All Red.              A white base with a dark ribbon around the middle, one red patch on one pole and a patch of a different color on the opposite pole.  Four colors. 

All Red = no dark color around the middle . A white base with one red patch on one pole and a patch of a different color on the opposite pole. Three colors.

 

Black Line All Red = FOUR colors.   One patch has to be red and the ribbon around the middle is dark. The second patch can be any color other than red or dark like black.

All Red = THREE colors.  One patch has to be red and the other patch can be any other color than red.