In the summer of 1950, Armstrong decided to attempt to use the glass left in the furnace during a change from clear to amber. This resulted in these darker colored DP1s. It seems that the green smoke examples ...
Posted by Richard Wentzel on July 24, 2011 - 0.6kb
HEMINGRAY-60 (rear skirt) MADE IN U.S.A. {wide grove}
Hemi blue, couple of very tiny pecks near mold line looks mint
$20 postage extra Thanks Larry
Posted by Dan Culver on July 24, 2011 - 0.1kb
Micky mouse HEMINGRAY-60 / [numbers] (rear skirt) MADE IN U.S.A. / [number]
Clear, very small nicks or ding near mold line almost mint
$20
Posted by Dan Culver on July 24, 2011 - 0.1kb
# 1 CD 728 [010] {MLOD} No embossing, Light Aqua, Nice amber swirl near one mold line; also has a small milk swirl near the opposite mold line, VNM-.......One fish eye on dome edge, flat fingernail base flake, a little ...
Posted by Miles Mclall on July 22, 2011 - 0.7kb
CD 126 [330] Brookfield - Green - Vertical crack from wire ridge to base with bruising - No glass missing - Displays okay at mold line - Book $75-100 - Asking $30 + Shipping. {REDUCED TO $25 + SHIPPING}
Shipping ...
Posted by Steven Bahre Jr. on July 22, 2011 - 1.1kb
CD 136 [050] B&O {PEC error} - Light Aqua with Potstones - Lower wire ridge peck with slight flaking on rear near mold line - Book $30-40 - Asking $30 + shipping because of the potstones.
Shipping price based on ...
Posted by Steven Bahre Jr. on July 22, 2011 - 1.1kb
Unused appearing CD 275 [020] LOCKE VICTOR NY. Two tiny inner skirt edge mold removal rough spots are the only "flaws". $ 90.00 includes shipping.
Posted by Robert W Baumann on July 20, 2011 - 0.1kb
This group consists a of 151 SB in a hint of a tint with a very, very small chip or two that are really unnoticeable but I mention any way, and secondly, a blob with the embossing on the dome AND on the lower wire ...
Posted by Jeff Lisenbee on July 20, 2011 - 1.1kb
I haven't seen this before. Can someone explain what's going on here? Was there a gap in the mold? Did the dome slump after being taken out of the mold? Thanks!
Posted by (private) on July 20, 2011 - 0.2kb
In the group picture this is the insulator 3rd from the left. Stamp embossed on front skirt HEMINGRAY / No 9. On rear skirt PATENT / MAY 2 1893. Has sharp drip points. This one has a huge double bubble in the back skirt ...
Posted by Paul Hoste on July 17, 2011 - 0.6kb
These are the two different shop numbers 1 and 6, as of 7/15/2011 in my collection. Looking for shop numbers 4 and 5 in narrow dome.
Known shop numbers for the pinch or narrow dome variant are 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, ...
Posted by Terry Drollinger on July 15, 2011 - 0.4kb
...the plunger assembly was pressed into the barely molten glass. How many pounds of clamping force did it take to overcome all these springs and press the plunger down? Probably no one living knows. Note these are not ...
Posted by Gene Hawkins on July 13, 2011 - 0.7kb
Bob McLaughlin was kind enough to bring his family's relic to the show, with photographs of it being used. For all those people who want to know what a mold looked like, here you go. I took a couple of pics of the mold ...
Posted by Gene Hawkins on July 13, 2011 - 0.5kb
Ahhh, I KNEW that would get somebody's attention! That's what I've I've always called especially squat, heavy 143's such as this Dwight Pattern and Can Pac whose embossing runs right through it's MLOD.This one is a ...
Posted by Jeff Lisenbee on July 12, 2011 - 0.6kb
A Sterling, just a chort scratch on the dome, a neat, amber streaked and unusual 18 mold CREB 1870-1877 patents with a pinprick nick and a couple shallow factory annealing lines for accuracy sake, and a light milky ...
Posted by Jeff Lisenbee on July 12, 2011 - 0.3kb
Bob McLaughlin hauled out the famed McLaughlin commemorative mold for everyone to enjoy, along with some educational info. Nice to see it's being well preserved and not used to make any modern "spin-offs"!
Posted by Dwayne Anthony on July 11, 2011 - 0.2kb
I found this ceramic beehive at a flea market. The insulator has a very rough base, but the roughness is glazed over and the mold line is just as rough. The insulator looks very crudely made and the mold line does go ...
Posted by Tim Grantz on July 11, 2011 - 0.3kb
Light steel blue "I" mold, miniscule base nick 1/8" by 1/4" or less and a very shallow factory annealing ;ine or two $10 plus shipping. Clear Hemingray 21 '38 date code, great shape and not easy to ...
Posted by Jeff Lisenbee on July 10, 2011 - 0.4kb
Here is a picture of the other side. If you look close, you can see some of the rub towards the lower part of the skirt.
Posted by Keith Brooking on July 9, 2011 - 0.1kb
With all the talk on ICON about the 3-piece mold CD 126 CREBs, I decided to look through my sales stock, and low and behold, I found one. This one has a rough spot about an inch long on the upper wire ridge as seen, a ...
Posted by Keith Brooking on July 9, 2011 - 0.4kb
Here is a CD 126.4 W.E.MFG.CO. with a J on the rear skirtin a blue aqua. It has a fair number of bubbles. There is an open bubble seen on the front base edge, a flake on the inside of the skirt base just to the left of ...
Posted by Keith Brooking on July 9, 2011 - 0.6kb
The first is a Hemingray / No. 2 Cable // Pat. May 2nd 1893 with the Knowles blot out with sharp drips in aqua. It has a little pinprick on the skirt, and about five barely nicked drips. It has an open bubble on the ...
Posted by Keith Brooking on July 9, 2011 - 0.6kb
Nice CD 127. Embossed on very top of dome with the number 4 in a circle. On the front crown embossed LACS PAT JULY. On front skirt in large letters W.U.PATTE. Then on rear crown is the continuation of the date 25TH ...
Posted by Paul Hoste on July 8, 2011 - 0.6kb
Pictured here are two Prism insulators with the wide umbrella, in different sizes. I was a bit stumped as to the proper CD number for the piece on the right.
The piece on the left is:
CD 333 Prism [020] ... 7 ...
Posted by (private) on July 5, 2011 - 0.9kb
Here's a few of the pieces I picked up at the Lostine swap:
1. CD 121 Am Tel & Tel... somewhere between green and yellow green. I don't think I've ever seen this color come available before. I think it's a much ...
Posted by (private) on July 5, 2011 - 0.4kb
