Insulator left of Center............Olive Amber Lowex Center Insulator........................Olive Green ( Brookfield CD 152 with amber swirling) Insulator right of Center...........Olive Amber (Brookfield B)

I wonder how many other collectors (Brookfield Collectors mostly) have asked the question or questions I'm about to ask here.

Question #1 Which of the three insulators in my pic is the real Olive Amber insulator? Please stand up!

Prelude to question #2.

Being Lee is about the only Icon member I have asked this question or a number of questions to, I think it's time to hear from other members and hear there imputs.

Question #2

Is there any such a Brookfield insulator that has the color of the Lowex CD 230 pictured? If so, who has one? Mind posting a pic of it? Maybe niether of my Brookfield insulators pictured are Olive Amber.

Once I was told by the before mentioned person that I would have to figure out the answer to this question myself. That was a good many years ago now. I think it is time the answer is made clear so other Newbies coming into the hobby will know the answer. Afterall the difference in prices according to the price guide can be quite different, depending on the CD# . For instance. A CD 152 [030] Olive Green books for $40-50. The same insulator in Olive Amber is listed for $100-125. A CD 162 [180] in Dark Olive Green books for $50-75. Where as a Olive Amber is listed for $200-250. That's quite the difference in price. Isn't it? Recently I purchased a couple Dark Olive Greens like the one picture. One I got pretrty cheap being it was listed as a Green ($3.99). The other I purchased from another collector and as far as I know he has been around for much much longer then I have myself. I purchased the same insulator from him for $23. But I not beleive it is an Olive Amber. Too me it would not have mattered. I wouldn't have bid more then $25 for it anyway. But what about the New Comer that wants to build his collection and wants an "Olive Amber" of a certain CD# in this/her collection? That innocent new collector may have bid and paid $125 + for a $50 insulator tops. Especially if in a bidding war with another new collector. And that's only a CD 152. There is something wrong in this picture and I think it is time it is all cleared up. How about you? Maybe it will be in the next price guide.

My conclusion (may be lengthy) is that the insulator on the RIGHT of CENTER is the TRUE Brookfield Olive Amber insulator. Why you may ask. Well that's because I've hunted and sold, purchased and sold a good number of Olive Greens or OLIVE GREENS WITH AMBER SWIRLS. Some of those I even sold as Olive Ambers. One sold for nearly $200 because it had so much dark orange amber swirling. I wouldn't have even listed that one as an olive amber if I was certain of what they really were myself.

As for the TRUE OLIVE AMBERS I've only have had a few and sold a few. Each time I have the question has popped back up for me to review. I've had only one CD 162 Brookfield and sold that one long ago. It was the CD 152's that lead me to believe I was mistaken and there was indeed a TRUE OLIVE AMBER BROOKFIELD. That is unless anyone has either a CD 152 or CD 162 the same as the Lowex CD 230 I posted here. I've purchased two of the CD 152's that matched the CD 162 I had long ago found it the wild and sold. When I sold the CD 162 I first listed it as a unlisted color. It looked like an Yellow Olive with just a touch of Green mixed in. I called the new color a Dark Yellow Olive Green (being it was much darker then the normal yellow olive green). That insulator only sold for $50 and I believe It's TRUE VALUE (to the right collector that is) was $200-250, maybe more being they must be very scarce.

Question #3 -

If I am right in with and through my own study of this color issue can a change in the price guide be made when the next addition comes out? Maybe a new color needs to be assigned to what is now the Brookfield's Olive Amber.

Thanks for your patients and futures answers to my question posed. I would also like this posted onto the form as a discussion if anyone knows how to post it there. I will not be able to reply to the whole of ICON but I will be able to answer any questions persaonally I may have raised.