As with all these found here in Detroit these are hard to get clean! After 1 week in Lye they are about 80% there (and 100% on the last one!) I will let you finish cleaning them :)
1. [060] (F-Skirt) HEMINGRAY/W.U. ...
Posted by Raven Kotlarsky on December 11, 2012 - 0.8kb
CD 143 CANADIAN PACIFIC. RY. CO. insulator that is aqua in colour with light purple swirls in the glass. There's a fisheye above the "PA" that can be seen in the pictures. There are also a couple of tiny ...
Posted by Brett Bloxam on December 9, 2012 - 0.4kb
Light purple CD 121 embossed with a diamond on the front and BTC / CANADA blotted out on back. There's an open based bubble below the diamond with a flat 1/4" flake beside it. The top and bottom wire groove ridge ...
Posted by Brett Bloxam on December 9, 2012 - 0.4kb
Found this one upside down in the muck along a side rail. It has an oily sheen patina on the surface probably due to the proximity of the asphalt plant and oil pipelines on the property. Has a few open bubbles, and some ...
Posted by (private) on December 9, 2012 - 0.3kb
Three CD 104 No Embossing Pennycuick style continuous drip ponys. Left is dark aqua although some may call it teal. Has what looks to be a burst base bubble and needs cleaned. Middle is a fizzy light aqua. Has a scallop ...
Posted by Daniel Ling on December 7, 2012 - 0.5kb
Here is a CD 104 EIN [010] (Dome) 7 (F-Skirt) (Arc) NEW ENG.TEL & TEL./CO. SB in yellow olive green. Damage does not detract and consists of a lehr kiss/chipping to left front crown above NEW with another lehr kiss ...
Posted by Chris Cotnoir on December 7, 2012 - 0.8kb
here's an abbreviated list of goodies we found in The great Victor dig of 2009… We found a concentrated pocket of Fred Locke stuff surrounded by later post-1950 Victor products ... We have no idea how the stuff ended up ...
Posted by Mike Spadafora on December 2, 2012 - 1.5kb
EIN060 Brookfield creb. This view shows the 1/2" or better wide bubble centered in the fron skirt. To see the other side where there is a kidney shaped dark olive green glob Above that glob is w wisp of milk. The ...
Posted by Roger Poole on November 28, 2012 - 1.0kb
... insulators that were made from differnt molds. A few of this batch will be available in the near future in the for sale album. If your interested ...
Posted by Roger Poole on November 27, 2012 - 0.5kb
There are 4 flaked drips (none missing), a small bruise at the mold line, a small flake below the 3 in 1893, and three small bird pecks one above the PETTICOAT and two on the dome. Easly a VNM item. The blue in the dome ...
Posted by Justin Martin on November 25, 2012 - 0.4kb
Hard to find M-2255 insulator with a greeny - gray glaze with darker green highlights. Perfect shape with no flaws. There are a couple of tiny areas where the glaze didn't take near the base. Neat Thomas "blue ...
Posted by Brett Bloxam on November 25, 2012 - 0.4kb
A few of these aqua and amber mixed insulators came out of Kentucky some years back. Embossed HEMINGRAY / No. 19 SDPThey all have varying amber swirls giving the insulator a nice light geen color. This one has the ...
Posted by Ross Baird on November 25, 2012 - 0.4kb
CD 241 Hemingray (020) in Hemingray blue. VNM with two partially nicked SDPs at left mold line and a tiny matchead flake to very top of WG.-- Take advantage of all the pain meds I'm on !!! I just ain't thinkin' right to ...
Posted by Daniel Ling on November 24, 2012 - 0.3kb
CD 196 H.G.CO. (040) in dark blue aqua. This is the No. 51 on the front skirt version which is much tougher to find than those without the No. 51. These tramps are known to be wacked on the umbrella due to design. ...
Posted by Daniel Ling on November 24, 2012 - 0.8kb
Here's a CD 135 Chicago (020) in super shape !! Most of these have a wacked up WG area because of design. This one has no chips, cracks or nuttin' to the WG !! Dome and shoulder embossing are damage free. Base has a ...
Posted by Daniel Ling on November 24, 2012 - 0.6kb
For the toll specialist, here are a couple of competitors. The first is a CD 121 [030] (Dome) X1 (F-Skirt) BROOKFIELD (R-Skirt) [Five blots] SB in dark aqua with a few small bubbles and bits of snow sparsely scattered ...
Posted by Chris Cotnoir on November 24, 2012 - 1.3kb
CD 121 HEMI Patent May 2 1893 with triangle metal in bottom skirt with nice amber running up the side of the insulator. Also well defined swirls in dome, see close up in pic#2. Some very light flaking at mold line on ...
Posted by Jim Harlow on November 21, 2012 - 0.3kb
The Aqua one is EIN [030] emb. on front "Patent/Dec.19 1871" Rear "3"on crown & B on skirt" In great shape with just a few small base chips/nibbles, Two small micro dings at left mold line ...
Posted by Ken Gardner on November 19, 2012 - 0.6kb
[035] ( F-Crown ) W.E.MFG.CO. ( F-Skirt ) PATENT / DEC.19.1871 ( R-Crown ) W.U. ( R-Skirt ) [ H ] in Blue Aqua.
A couple of flea bites on the crown area. very small scalp chip on base at mold line and slight wire rub ...
Posted by Bear Spitler on November 14, 2012 - 0.4kb
Full of milk in the front where you want it in Aqua color. [ 020 ] ( F- Crown ) PATENT / DEC. 19 1871 ( No period between 19 and 1871 ) ( R-Crown ) 3 Smooth Base with small internal bruise to the right of mold line on ...
Posted by Bear Spitler on November 14, 2012 - 0.6kb
Aqua with streak / band of Milk running from left mold line, over dome, down to right mold line. [ 040 ] ( F- Crown ) Patent / Dec. 19.1871 ( R- Crown ) 2 ( R-Skirt ) backwards C. Smooth Base with some extra glass on ...
Posted by Bear Spitler on November 14, 2012 - 0.5kb
Here are 2 sharp looking ponies first is a vnm no embossing threaded to base with amber swirling in the dome asking 23.99 shipping included on this one, Next is a diamond pony in type three this is the mold that the ...
Posted by Craig Boehm on November 13, 2012 - 0.4kb
This rather unique insulator uses the top skirt mold set fo an early M-3725 glazewelded to an M-2998 collar skirt creating a unique rare varient of the very scarce Fred Locke M-2998 . Less then five frepaired examples ...
Posted by Mike Spadafora on November 12, 2012 - 1.1kb
From left to right -- actual postage additional:
CD 162 R. GOOD JR. / DENVER COLO // PETTICOAT -- nice blue shade with a huge bubble (and one smaller one)! a few small flakes at the sharp edges - VNM condition for ...
Posted by Bob Berry on November 11, 2012 - 0.4kb
Strain mold
Posted by (private) on November 11, 2012 - 0.0kb
