This Coolie is a beautiful insulator in a very bright Hemingray blue. The sleeve is mint and the insulator has some damage but some amazing character as well. The embossing on the insulator itself is neat in that Hemingray is almost all blotted out and you can barely make out the patent date. The lines are very thin and weak and are barely raised about the surface of the glass.

The damage report is as follows: a chip on one ear which is shallow but almost as large as the first joint of an index finger. The other ear has some amazing deep annealing lines which almost makes it look as if the ear was drooping and someone pushed it into place causing several neat lines in the glass. It is on this ear that there is also another chip which is much smaller but is about the size of a thumb nail and is quite shallow. The body of the insulator iself is clean except for a small bruise a little larger than the size of a pencil eraser. There is also a lehr kiss on the other side of the piece about the size of a penny. The insulator has several nice bubbles throughout it and only has three partially chipped drips and an open bubble under two hollowed out drips.

The piece displays wonderfully and really stands out with the character. Book value for these in Hemingray blue are $175-200. My last reduction is $75 plus shipping (insurance extra) in the U.S. Will ship overseas at actual cost.

I am also interested in full/partial trades and will consider early or ususual porcelain (foreign and domestic, especially transpositions), rare Hartford Faience Co. pieces, CD 143s and CD 134s.

Thank you for looking!