I had asked for help identifying this beehive found along an old rail bed ... kind enough to identify it as a 1930 beehive produced by Illinois Electrical Porcelain Co. The 119 is the company's model number for this style ...

I located a large number of these insulators on an abandoned rail line. I've not found them on the internet or my reference book. The state of Illinois is embossed with the number 119 inside the state and the number 30 ...

This is my Hawley beehive with overpour on one side. Looks like there was originally more extra glass that has broken off. ...

... on the dome of my sapphire blue NEGMCO beehive that I was referring to in my poll question. I have a couple of other NEGCMO pieces with these dots ...

... attempt to make a wide groove 145 beehive which was eclipsed by the more sturdy 164 (yes, that's a deep olive Brookfield 164 on the left in ...

Here is a CD 145 Brookfield CREB in some tone of yellow-green. Beyond the great color it is also in very near mint condition. The only flaw is a sliver flake missing at the inside of the pinhole where the threads ...

... style (?) next to a POSTAL and the WGM Beehive that I was referring to as a Postal style. The Grand Canyon style is in the middle ...

Here is a seldom seen Foree Bain Beehive. Condition is great for one of these, with a few chips, a sort of open bubble defect on the bottom ...

... on the dome like a regular Grand Canyon beehive. The threads are different too ...

... this shot of me installing some common beehive glass on those ugly empty pins. About 4 years later, the power company scaled the line down to 1 ...

... just your ordinary, everyday hemingray beehive, but FULL of milk swirls! What a beautiful piece that will be a nice addition to our collection for ...

... . Either way, a real pretty 1880's beehive. There is the faintest backwards "N" above HG CO for those who care about such things. A ...

... this unique CD 145 Grand Canyon style beehive from a retired lineman. Every square inch of this piece is filled with milky steamy swirls. I've ...

<center>Kancle-Brew 5-7-5</center> A CD 145 B Yellow Olive Green - in the air!

<center>Kancle-Brew 5-7-5</center> CD 145 B Yellow Olive Green - grounded!

... picture. The innermost piece is a white beehive and the outer piece is a white haystack. I had to outline the two pieces (in a graphics program) ...

Frosted cap on a Hemingray beehive - beautiful sight on a May1'7th morning ...

CD 145 H.G.CO. with a huge white rock in it. Has a pinky nail shallow flake running up from the wire groove above the rock and another group of shallow flakes above the "H" in H.G.Co. Displays nice from the ...

... s a shot of a real sapphire blue NEGMCO beehive next to an altered sapphire blue POSTAL beehive. Hopefully you can see the dark, smokey difference ...

Her is a picture of my favorite beehive sandwich. Hope these pictures don't bore anyone ...

... the highly underrated (IMHO) blue gray beehive, in the middle is a gray green (unlisted color) beehive that I just picked up at the Bedford show ( ... finally on the right is a light green beehive ...

I posted a pic of this one taken in daylight a while back, thought I would try a shot of it underlit to see how it looks. Not bad at all I would say. Thanks for the peek.

Here's a big aqua beehive shown underlit with some nice milk action going on inside. I have a day photo, just ask for it. ...

Another off the good old MKT.

The taller piece on the left is recessed- stamped "COOK" on the front . The smaller piece to the left is recessed- stamped "C.P.P." on top. These two came with some interesting porcelain insulators ...