My plan was to go up into the Catskill Mountains for my frst time this year. Was going to go south after hiting the Livingstonville flea market through Grand Gorge and then back down the mountains to the Sunday Woodstock flea market. Sign says April through October for the Livingstonville flea market but there wasn't one today. Didn't feel maybe wasting my time in case there was also no flea market down in Woodstock so I changed my plans and headed north and then back down the moutains. My first stop yielded the Brookfield CD 152 hoop skirt which I purchased at an indoor flea market where they price their insulators by the size verses what the insulator is. Guess I shouldn't expect them to know what is what.

The Brookfield centered in my pic was found at the same antique shop where I found a couple Hawley ponies being the eyes of a snowman maybe one month ago. Just last week I was told by the owner he had some insulators in his barn. Don't know if this CD 149 was one of them being there was nobody around. The insulator was sitting outside along a Brookfield D162.1 and a patent May 2 1893 Hemingray CD 121. I left those two and stuffed the dollar amount indicated for the 149 inside one of them with a thank note.

This CD 149 is actually the second I have found to date in my area. It is dark aqua with some amber swirls and ghost embossing of Brookfield. My first 149 was found maybe a couple years back where I picked up my third and last insulator today. It is a round base Brookfield CD 164 with snow. Funny thing here is that when I found that 149 I also found a Brokfield Creb beehive with the orange varnish or something in the threads. For some unknown reason the seller only had the creb in his store. Both the creb and this 164 was on a crossarm at an auction next door in the same building, Don't ask me why he only put the creb out. Maybe it was because of the patent dates and he figured it would go fast.