Kind of a bright turquoise sort of color. Too bright and blue for the common aqua, but not blue enough to be the classic early "Hemibloo". There is a fair amount of steam and crud dancing around in this one, with the barber pole wrap being the most obvious. One might expect it to be olive colored, but the material is actually black. Steve Blair picked this piece in southern Ohio when he was a lineman and traded it to me for a Lynchburg I had.