This is the base shot.....Vivid Cobalt Blue Threadless Hat Info Wanted..2 5/8" dia. x 3 1/2" tall.with a 1" diameter tapered pin hole. You can see the old dirt from the cracks in the glass where the tumbler missed the stress crack cavities. I moved the other pictures to the irradated, altered section...

Everyone agrees that this was one of the fakes produced by a well known western dealer, counterfeiter..Paul Greaves wrote and suggested that following features that made it suspect ...Lizard skin look and the ripples in the glass where it was pours so slow . Also the base is flat and edge glass is chipped as shown here. All seem to have been made in the same mold.. The Suspect CEW ponies had the same characteristics also.. There also is a dot inside the pin hole.....and I wrote back this:....Thank you for the info and yes mine has a small dot or tit inside to the side a little in the pin hole and it has that lizard skin look to it . The glass when poured seems to have been poured so slow it created ripples in the glass. This must have been a cast off to place in the desert for authentic verifying purposes..After looking at the glass the way it was poured it doesn't seem like normal manufacturing in a glass factory.. lizard skin and ripples.. thank you all for boosting my knowledge on these well made fakes. He also mentioned that the same goes for the cew ponies had the lizard skin look to them..It sure looks good but it is easy to cast a threadless..The lizard skin look and the ripples are not what a normal glass insulator would have..It looks like it took minutes to pour it or someone heated glass into a mold with a blow torch and it just flowed into it as it melted to create this ripple effect...