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These are two 1950 magazine advertisements for Vitrolite Color Glass paneling made by Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company, Toledo, Ohio.
Vitrolite was an opaque pigmented glass manufactured by The Vitrolite Company (1908-1935) and Libbey-Owens-Ford (1935-1947) in the United States. The same structural pigmented glass was marketed as Sani Onyx (or Rox) by the Marietta Manufacturing Company from 1900 onward and as Carrara Glass by the Penn-American Plate Glass Company after 1906.
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