After SOME unfriendly words with one vendor at a flea market I went to yesterday (Sunday) I walked away seeking Some other vendors to buy from. I found a couple more that were more there to sell then to get rich like the one I exchanged unpleasentrys with moments ago. The CD 102 Brookie has SOME drip ponts and the Brookie hoop skirt has SOME awesome amber swirling. The American beehive on the left I purchased after leaving the same flea market the day before. Wasn't even planning on returning on Sunday because the flea market is exactly 60 miles away. However, the vendor I had had the hard time with told me he had some amber insulators and other colors he would bring the following day. I almost wished he hadn't brang any at all with him and told me that rather then to of had the conversation/ dispute with him. Believe me I became pretty heated and not just just by the hot sunshine shinning down on everyone. First of all he only had a crate half filled with a bunch of common aqua insulators. Most of those were Patented Hemingray 40's. Before I started looking through I asked how much he wanted per insulator. His answer was that he only had one price and I had to take them all. Another words, I wasn't allowed to just buy a few pieces and I had to buy the same store. I picked out four anyhow and asked him anyway what he wanted for the four non-Hemingray 40's I liked. He only gave me an outrageous price after I told him I rode my motorcycle down to the flea market and could not possibility carry all the insulators back home on the bike with me. My response to his price was only that I had wished I had brag along my price guide and I could show him what the value was on all the insulators he had with him. To tick me off even more was another person maybe a collector started giving his opinion of that one couldn't price insulators by looking at a Price Guide. I didn't give that guy a piece of my mind but I sure would have like to have given him SOME!!!

BTW, the American beehive was found at the bottle and glass shop that I also visit frequently when I'm in the area. I looked through the three 2X4 foot shelves of commons the owner has and there didn't see to be anything new there since I last picked through. I probally passed this one up as a matter of fact the last time I was there and picked up a half dozen Lynchburg CD 162 signals. If I hadn't noticed some straeks of milk in the dome of this one I may have left it there again. Didn't realize it was an american until I actually started looking inside the dome and saw it was threadless about 1 inch or more down from the top of the pin hole. I knew when I paid for it that it had a serious crack on the other side not shown in my pic. Didn't realize the skirt had actually glued back together at one time by someone else. After cleaning and removing the old yellowing glue I couldn't put Humpty-Dumpty back together completely. You may observe there is a small slice of glass left of the insulator in the pic. Overall though Humpty doesn't look all that bad until you turn him around and look at his back side. There is just a slight bit of glass missing along the main break but if the leftover piece belongs in there it will never be returned. It just ain't worth all that much love and care from me.