Of the non-aqua So. Mass. Tel. Co. ponies out there, here is one in very light amethyst; its color rather difficult to accurately capture. My first encounters with So. Mass. Tel. Co. insulators was in August 1969 when I spotted a primitive-looking double sidepin line crossing a backroad about 35 miles from home that I had never travelled upon before. This line followed a path and turned out to be a private line (several miles in length) connecting two water pumping stations. The line was still active. It was built upon rickety poles with "used" insulators that very likely came from the New England Telephone & Telegraph Company. The sidepin line was in the heart of So. Mass. Tel. territory. When NET&T Co. was buying out SMT Co. exchanges one at a time through the years among the first things they did was upgrade their plant. It was NET &T's policy not to use or reuse some pony insulator styles; therefore lots of CD 102s, 104s and 106s were given away or dumped. Thus, I never found many of these styles through my many years of collecting except for the recycled ones along this long stretch.

I and another collector swapped out many insulators on this old line. About 35 or 40 SMT's were retrieved; about 75% were aqua and the rest in off-clear.

The one in this photograph was found in an antique shop and is the only light lavender or light-purple one I have seen in-person that fits into this "color" category. Somewhat "darker" examples are known, the "deepest" I know of is light purple, comparable to that seen in some CD 102 Brookfield ponies.