Vitro Names?

[zaboo]

maybe I missed it but did anyone mention the buttermilks?

[wvrons]

Always remember these were toys for children (not collectors). Quality control especially in packaging, was not a big priority. It was a 24hr operation and especially at nights supervision was less. If you had 5000 yellow jacket labels to pack and the yellow jacket marble bin went empty at 4600 marbles. Nearby was a bin of all reds,or tigers,or maybe a leftover mix,you finished the 5000 lot of yellow jackets with what they had at the time. These companies could not pay high top wages and did not have the creme of the crop for most workers. Original packages are a good method,one of the better,to get names or identify marbles. But as always they are not all 100%,GO WITH THE MAJORITY,find more than one example.

Why the name all red? Originally they were all to have one single red patch and a patch of another color. When the kids playing marbles would shoot an ALL RED it would flash red as it rolled across the ring. Try it. I am sure as time went on all reds ended up with other colors than red,with some having no red patch,two other colored patches. As long as most were All Reds most children would not complain. Red was the most expensive color to produce and sometimes difficult to get red cullet. It may have been due to cost or avialable red that several did not have a red patch. A all red with a yellow patch,maybe also a yellow jacket,a red,yellow,blue patches maybe a tiger. These names was not and is not a exact science to identify each and every marble. Go with the majority,most Vitro two color patch marbles with a red patch will be considered,All Red.

The best info on Vitro Tigers is no doubt the articles by Chuck Brandstetter for the WVMCC. People spend hundreds in marbles but won't spend $20.00 for information about them.

[Al Oregon]

In other words, join the WVMCC and get their newsletters to learn about marbles....

http://www.westvirginiamarblecollectorsclub.com/