I liked this insulator from the moment I set eyes on it. However, I now find myself trying to keep only the threadless I can find myself (as few as that may be!). So, having found a lovely blue M.T.Co. specimen earlier this summer, I'm now already able to pass this one on to another collector. The piece is a good, study threadless, despite being in particularly rough condition. It is embossing style [030], the one with a period underneath the 'o' in 'Co', which I gather is one of the more scarce embossing styles. The colour is something like dark blue aqua. The damage is what would concern many. The base is, other than the description that follows, in good condition - the embossing, and over half the base, is mint. However, one major whack to the left skirt side has resulted in the loss of a 1 3/4" chip of glass, and a 1" white "crack" off the left side of the chip. The chipped area has spread into a crack which runs from the left side 270 degrees into the dome 3/4 of the way around the insulator. Short of that crack and associated chip, there is one 1 1/2" base whack, and an area of "fisheye cracks" on the dome about 1/2" long. A bad crack, you say? I've been happy with the piece for the last year. Plus, the price is right. Oh, yes - the price! Books at $200-250, so how's about $80 US shipping included? I paid $65 for it, I seem to recall, so that should be about right with shipping. This is a 130 year old telegraph workhorse. Even the "common" threadless aren't easy to turn up. For larger, high-resolution photos, and more of them, please email me! Alright, alright - how about $70 U.S. shipping included?