CREB145 - "Olean" CREB - Let it snow!

By Lee Brewer; posted July 26, 2007

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This is a SN7 (b.2) Olean CREB. This is one of nine (in whole condition) CREB 145's I once found in Olean, NY. That last sentence is typical of what I got tired of writing out when CREBheads asked me about them (when I first found them and they were heard of) so I nicknamed these the Olean CREB's. i also, finally, got a good enough setup to take some decent photos of these. So here is a batch of them showing 2 different pieces. A number 7 and a number 8. The 7 actually is a more aqua vcolor and the 8 is a more green aqua b/c of amber in the glass - neat pieces. So far these are the snowiest CREB145's reported. I have had other collectors show me some just as snowy, and then tell me they got theirs in Olean, NY before I got there. Gene Hawkins showed me one just as snowy (!), and i find it interesting it was one of the same numbers used in the vicinity of these pieces. One of the most interesting things about these pieces is that they hint that Brookfield was using two different shop number molds, simultaneously, with the same glass batch! Therefore we know multiple, differently marked, molds were used at the same time.

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