CD 133's found in Georgia

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Compiled by Jack Kesling

24 April 2007

Jack Kesling comments:

CD 133 W. Brookfield - Early Signal - Style 1

The following is a very early CD 133 W. Brookfield signal style which was found on the Central of Georgia Railway telegraph line. I would refer you to the posts by David Wiecek for the style [260] mould variant. This insulator is very heavy and is embossed W. Brookfield / No. 55 Fulton St. on the lower skirt and "Cauvet's (arched) / Pat / July 25 1865" and is light blue aqua. I will call this style 1 and is the mould variant which David makes reference too. The main difference between this one and David's mould style 2 is that the lower skirt has a concave curvature and the embossing is slightly larger. These were found both North and South of Macon, GA and they all were {MLOD} and had a 7 mould mark with a large script 7 on the back skirt. I found about 15 or so which were mostly traded into the hobby. Most of them were the style 2 with the straight skirt.

CD 133 W. Brookfield - Early Signal - Style 2

The following is a very early CD 133 W. Brookfield signal style which was found on the Central of Georgia Railway telegraph line. I would refer you to the posts by David Wiecek for the style [260] mould variant. This insulator is very heavy and is embossed W. Brookfield / No. 55 Fulton St. on the lower skirt and "Cauvet's (arched) / Pat / July 25 1865" and is light blue aqua. I will call this style 2 and is identical to the mould variant which David shows. The main difference between style 1 and style 2 is that style 2 has a straight down lower skirt. These were found both North and South of Macon, GA and they all were {MLOD} and had a 7 mould mark with a large script 7 on the back skirt. I found about 15 or so which were mostly traded into the hobby. Most of them were the style 2 with the straight skirt.

CD 133 W. Brookfield - Style 1 vs. Style 2 (Picture 1)

The following pictures compare the CD 133 W. Brookfield mould style variants which I've called style 1 and style 2. Although it's hard to see the difference from a picture, you will note that the embossing is a different size and that the style 1 (on the left) has a slight concave curvature while the style 2 (on the right) has a straight down skirt. I would speculate that this is NOT a CD 133 mould, but a reworked CD 131 mould. If you look at the CD 131 skirt embossed W. Brookfield / No. 55 Fulton St., you will see that they are of identical size and embossing. If I had not seen the style 1 with the slightly concave skirt, I would not have come to this conclusion.

CD 133 W. Brookfield - Style 1 vs. Style 2 (Picture 2)

CD 133 W. Brookfield - Later Style Variant - Front

There were many CD 133 W. Brookfield's used on every section of the Central of Georgia Railway telegraph line. There were two notable exceptions. The line between Fort Valley and Columbus, GA used very few CD 133's and the line from Macon, GA to Atlanta, GA used a very large number of the CD 133 signal styles. Most of my CD 133 are stored in boxes, but I think I had around 14 different embossings and color variants. There were the CD 133's which might have been reworked CD 131's (e.g. [260]), an old heavy signal [230] well documented by David Wiecek's posts, a large later CD 133, and a smaller CD 133 also of later manufacture. See David Wiecek's posting for information on the older heavier version of the CD 133 [id=76187394]. My posting is of the newer heavy style CD 133 W. Brookfield (arched) / 55 Fulton St. / N.Y. on the front dome and "Cauvet's (arched) / Pat / July 25 1865 / Pat Jan 25 1870". This one was used as the embossing was very heavy and it was easy to photograph.

CD 133 W. Brookfield - Later Style Variant - Back

There were many CD 133 W. Brookfield's used on every section of the Central of Georgia Railway telegraph line. There were two notable exceptions. The line between Fort Valley and Columbus, GA used very few CD 133's and the line from Macon, GA to Atlanta, GA used a very large number of the CD 133 signal styles. Most of my CD 133 are stored in boxes, but I think I had around 14 different embossings and color variants. There were the CD 133's which might have been reworked CD 131's (e.g. [260]), an old heavy signal [230] well documented by David Wiecek's posts, a large later CD 133, and a smaller CD 133 also of later manufacture. See David Wiecek's posting for information on the older heavier version of the CD 133. My posting is of the newer heavy style CD 133 W. Brookfield (arched) / 55 Fulton St. / N.Y. on the front dome and "Cauvet's (arched) / Pat / July 25 1865 / Pat Jan 25 1870". This one was used as the embossing was very heavy and it was easy to photograph. This is a picture of the back dome embossing.

CD 133 W. Brookfield - Smaller / Lighter Signal

There were many CD 133 W. Brookfield's used on every section of the Central of Georgia Railway telegraph line. There were two notable exceptions. The line between Fort Valley and Columbus, GA used very few CD 133's and the line from Macon, GA to Atlanta, GA used a very large number of the CD 133 signal styles. Most of my CD 133 are stored in boxes, but I think I had around 14 different embossings and color variants. There were the CD 133's which might have been reworked CD 131's (e.g. [260]) [id=80234530], an old heavy signal [230] well documented by David Wiecek's posts, a large later CD 133, and a smaller CD 133 also of later manufacture. See David Wiecek's posting for information on the older heavier version of the CD 133 [id=76187394]. My posting is of the newer light style embossed "W. Brookfield (arched) / 45 Cliff St. / N.Y. in a nice medium apple green color. Most of these were various shades of aqua with either no dates on the back dome or the Pat. / Jan. 25, 1870 dates.

CD 134 W. Brookfield / 45 Cliff St.

This is a CD 134 embossed W. Brookfield (arched) / 45 Cliff St. / N.Y. on the front dome in a nice medium green color. These were found on most of the Central of Georgia Railway telegraph line. They were mostly shades of aqua and an a few light to medium green colors. I would say the highest concentration of CD 134's were on the line North of Macon, GA. Typically, the CD 133's would out number the CD 134 style by twenty to one or so. There were a lot of CD 133's used on these lines. Next to the CD 145 W. Brookfield's the CD 133's and CD 151 W. Brookfield's were the most common early telegraph styles which were utilized.

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