Was able to meet up with a construction contact I know who lives a few towns over from me this past weekend. I had met him in the summer and bought some local bottles and porcelain signs from him that had mostly come from a local job about a year ago. At that time, I had told him I was interested in insulators as well and he had mentioned he had some stuff at home. He had sent me a couple photos at the time which showed the green 718, and the 742. We just had not had a chance to reconnect until this weekend. He brought these pieces with him, which were all his insulators. He told me he "almost didn't bring the really beat up one(aqua 718) because I figured it wasn't worth anything"

I bought a couple more bottles from him at the same time including an Ontario torpedo soda.

The green 718 has underpour, and base chipping. It leans hard from the underpour but is a thin skirt. Not often these fellows pop up. Still had dirt and crud in the wire groove when I got it.

The aqua 718 has two large arc chips in the skirt, and numerous dome dings, but is the "thin skirt" variant also. Hey, it still stands on its own! The pin hole was still half full of ash, probably from whatever dump/privy/etc that it had been dug from by the excavator.

The 742 is an unembossed one. Fairly typical condition that we see for these in Ontario. They normally have base flaking around the base, and a skirt chip or two. This one has a skirt chip on one side, but does have a bit of milk running to the top of the pinhole.

Overall, I was very happy to pick these up, and he was happy to have some Christmas spending cash!

I will post a photo or two in the collectors album of the 718s backlit to better show them and their somewhat rarely seen style.