After an ICON post I was asked for the following two pictures. Both compare a Brookfield CD that really fits no CD except to say its a signal (of some sort). We know Woody wanted the CD system to be such that anyone could pick up an insulator and immediately know the CD number - hence the wide variety of profiles assigned CD 145. In the mentioned ICON post, I made the statement that the hobby started out like collectors do - eye candy first and ignore most everything else. Hence a Hemingray mindset was more prevalent as witnessed by the old saying of "boring aqua Brookfields." In the early hobby days, had the insulator in the pic been found with "HGCo" on it, I think this insulator it would have been differentiated with a "point number" CD. Although i might be wrong, I cannot think of a Hemingray piece that is not a definite match of a CD b/c the hobby mindset was enjoying finding the differentiation of this company the most. In fact, think about it, relatively recently a Hemingray 152 with a decent extended inner skirt was found and immediately was assigned a new CD point number. I also have more Brookfield signals which are hybrids - they are not well known, but were likely just lumped together as boring aqua Brookfields way back when. And I likely would have been right there with the typical mindset. Who cares about a bunch of aqua insulators when people are making new discoveries of cobalt, peacock, amber, purple insulators?

This piece is somewhat beefy like a 162.3, but the wire groove is way off, the skirt's outward slope is different, the dome is wider and shorter, and the skirt area is a lot smaller.

Added: Note the 16?, if smooth base, would have an extremely small skirt area. I don't know if this insulator exists in smooth base or not, but would like one!