I have no idea what colour tab was on a display's protective film when it arrived. The first thing that I do is remove it !!
I would have more confidence in comparing the results from my "ST7735_readreg.ino" sketch.
Unfortunately, there are only a handful of registers that are "readable".
Anyway, in two weeks time, I will see what arrives in the post.
Both my Black pcb and Red pcb 1.44" displays work with Sumotoy, ILI9163_kbv libraries.
Of course there are a few rotational and OFFSET kludges required, but I can get a readable display with both libraries.
As far as I can see, there is no "Adafruit ILI9163" library. Of course, I use Adafruit_GFX with my ILI9163_kbv library.
David.