In the Fall of '09, my wife gave me an address where a friend of hers told her there would be an estate auction on the following Saturday and that it would include insulators. The location was about 40 miles away, so on the next Saturday I loaded up my 15 year old daughter and her friend and headed out. We got to the address and there was no auction, or any evidence that there had been, or would be one. Undaunted, and intrepid adventurer that I am, I decided to follow an abandoned rail line back towards the house. All the while watching for anything worth apprehend...I mean collecting. About 15 miles later, I see an open antique store and decide to stop. It was fairly small, definitely rustic and seemingly in the middle of nowhere. My daughter and her friend are first in and, knowing how I am, it's not long before I hear "Dad, the insulators are over here!" from the back corner of the store. I wander back there and see a shelf with about 15-18 insulators, all extremely sooty and dirty to the touch. Like they were in a dirty, closed factory for 50 years and under somebody's house for 50 more. Most are heavily damaged, some slightly and some, these 6 to be exact, not at all. I grabbed the 6 and headed for the door. Excitedly, I reviewed my purchase as soon as I got in the truck. I could tell the CD 127 would be nice as well as the snowy star. Also, I was glad to get another Brkfld pony to join my growing collection. Most were so black you couldn't tell what color they were. After several oxalic baths and much elbow grease you can see what I ended up with. L to R CD 106 Star - with a major snow storm going on CD 108 WT - not much to talk about here CD 102 Star - again, not much here CD 102 [080] Brookfield - shop letter A, milky waterfall down the front face, in a color I had never seen before. (5 months later I would finally realize what I really had...cornflower blue! and several months after that, how much it was possibly worth) CD 127 [150] - Brookfield straight side so full of junk, fizz, snow, bubbles, milk, etc that I don't think there's much real glass in there. Leans bad, too. I saw someone on here mention "sick glass" when referring to these and this one's got the fever! CD 133 - Brookfield CREB, frosted bad, poor guy. Not sure what to do about him. So, that's my "greatest find "story. (...and I have witnesses if I need them) Oh yeah, the price was $ 2.00 ea.,... $12.00 plus tax. A very happy ending! Of course, this doesn't do much to make up for all the insulators that I've blindly paid too much for, but its a start!