Blue Star, YG NEGMCO 145's, 154 Grn Lynchburg Pending

By Roger Poole; posted November 16, 2010

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Left to right (I will provide more pics opon request. Email me for those. Thanks)

Blue Postal Style Star CD 145. Very fizzy with bubbles and some junk. Took lots of abuse at glass work when made. Many tool marks. Otherwise very near mint. Had a *hit load of these. Last one left. How about $25 shipped? $15 for insulator with charector. $10 for shipping. Pay only actual shipping. Adjustment made through refund after I figure out actual cost. If it cost more to send to west coast I will make up the difference out of my own pocket.

With the same shipping terms above you may have this Yellowish Green Lynchburg for $30. $20 for insulator that is mint minus a 3/16" fisheye bruise above No. 44 embossing on back skirt. I think this one has traces of the Lynchburg logo on the front skirt. So I'm not positive it is an EIN 050. There is a waekly embossed #1 on the back skirt above and between No. 44.

Yellow Green N.E.G.M. Co. This one also had a difficult day at the glass works. What may look like a chip near the top of the dome is not. Whatever struck the insulator in that spot pushed the still cooling glass downward. There is good amount of excess glass at the base of that manufacturing defect. There is a simular defect on the left side. This mark is more like a puncture wound that goes about 1/16" deep or more. This wound also has excess glass. But as Willy May's would say "Wait there's more!". What is not visible in the pic I've uploaded is on the back side there is a large flat spot high on the skirt. That spot is about 1" across and 3/4" going down from the wire groove. I knew this insulator was out of shape before I started this page. Being that I wanted to give the most accurate description here that I could I went out in my garage for another look at this wonderful marvel. While doing this I noticed a couple more detail I feel are very important and worth mentioning being this is a higher priced insulator. What I dicovered is that the wire groove itself seemed very unusual to me. It is at least 1/2" wide and is shallower then any wire grooves I recall any NEGMCO beehives being. "What do you say Billy, should I tell these Iconer's more?" Billy said yes so I will. I noticed when I was checking out the wire groove further there is another flat spot inside the wire groove that is exactly opposite of the flat spot on the rear skirt. I was wondering previously why this insulators dome leans to the left when the NEGMCO embossing is shifted to the left. Looks like a strong man graped ahold of this insulator in those two flat areas with tongs. What is a further marvel is that be it a tong or whatever tool was used to relocate the insulator didn't leave any marks whatsoever. Did I mention there is a couple bubbles in the dome? That seems like a minor detail now, doesn't it? Anyhow, based off the information I just spilled out and the PG value of 125-150 I feel asking $150 shipped is not asking to much. That's even if there are two shallow base flakes that are there because some of the excess glass that squeezed between the molds broke off and and a very small nibble on the inner skirt.

First emails can have any of these three insulators. I will be adding insurance to my cost of shipping the NEGMCO. I will refund the buyers $150 if not completely satisfied. However I will not make that refund if the insulator came back and busted by chance by the post office. If you are that person please make sure you also insure if for any reason you are not happy with this insulator. I can't see why anyone would not truely appreciate this fine piece of glass, but you never know.

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