How lucky can a hunter get? The creb in the center of this pic almost got away from me. I first saw it at an auction preview that a friend of mine told be about. There was two crossarms. Mostly porcellians and all the glass were commons. I wanted and probally could have just taken this one with nobody being the wiser being there wasn't anyone around when I took my first and second preview. The auction was supposed to be around a month ago and I decided to skip it being there was a gaint flea market on the same day. That's when I came home with the crebs in this link : [id=351779035] . As much as I would have liked to of been the new owner of this/that 1870 creb I was happy enough with my hunt of that flea market day. A couple weeks later I was driving by the auction barn and decided to see if the crossarms with insulators was still there. They were not. Well they were not where they previously were where I had previewed them. During this visit there were a couple people there. One was the owner of the auction and another was one of two antique dealers that shared the same auction barn. I was told by one of those antique dealers that he was the one who won the auction but he didn't have the insulators in his shop or where he could get at them easily. I described the one insulator the best I could and he said he would but it aside for me. Last week I stoped in and he had an insulator but it was a patented Hemingray No. 40.. Guess I didn't describe it well enough the first time so I described it once again. Yesterday I made yet another visit. He had another insulator put aside that he waiting to sell me. That one turned out to be a Brookfield creb CD 133. That misunderstanding actually turned out to be in my favor. He wasn't sure that he had it stating that someone may have swiped it being it was outside waiting to be auctioned for about one month. (I didn't tell him that I thought of doing that myself) The next think he told me that he took all the insulators off the crossarms and but them in a box. He then lead me to another room in his shop where he said I was more then welcomed to look through the three boxes and one bucket of insulators he had back there. I went through the bucket first. That is where I found the Brookfield CD 149. The rest of the bucket contained nothing but Hemingray 19's and 42's and B CD 145's. I saw the bottom of the 149 and thought t was just another of the B beehives. At that point I was no longer worried about whether I ever saw that Brookfield beehive creb I was looking for, I was just about ready and in fact paid for the 149 along with the most destorted Gayner CD 162 I had ever seen. That's the third insulator in my pic of course but not the end of this story. I was once again lead back into that back room where I was shown yet another box of insulators I had not sorted through. Low and behold!! You know the whole story now, right?

The creb turned out to have a nice white stone and a skinny milk/snot worm that is about 10 or more inches long if it were to be unravaled. I like the orange resin that two owners ago must have put on the wood pins. I think I'll keep it like that even though it is altered.