Here is a nice 136.4 Canadian Boston off my shelf. These typically have wire rim and groove damage. even some of my best colored pieces exhibit this character. This is a beauty in what I will call a nice blue. Has mold ...

Here is a CD 143 Montreal Telegraph beehive from my collection. I specialize in them. The embossing does not cross the mold line. In some 143s it does. There is a slight haze to the glass. On the back side is a nice ...

... that they were both made from different molds. I noticed that the spiral wire grooves were opposite when the same embossing side were placed in ...

Look at this killer glob filled Beehive. It is a B Mold H.G.CO and the Snot glob and milk are all over the insulator. This is a beautiful insulator. Thanks for looking and Happy collecting.

I personally think this is a great color. It doesn't wash out with backlighting either (see photo). Photo is slightly darker than actual piece. This is the [113] embossing error (R-Skirt) PATENT/MAY 2 1893 {First ...

Here's a beautiful CD 122 insulator (Left in Photo) embossed "Cristalerias de Chile" (front) and CTC Arto. No 16 ARTo. 4322 (reverse). Made between 1945-68 for use on the Chile's Telephone Company lines. ...

Just thought I would post it because it looks nice. Weird embossing on it, not stamp, prismic, or script or at least not what I think is. Looks nice though, the M in May looks like the mold maker forgot it and Put an A ...

Was wondering what these 1-inch round "thingies" are. They are green(ish), not perfect, so I wouldn't call them true marbles, but have the straw marks like the marks that are made when the molten glass hits ...

This CD 110,5 has always been a favorite with collectors. This one is base embossed + NAT. INSULATOR CO.+ PAT. MAY.1.DEC.25.1883 JAN.1.OCT.7.1884. There is a flake that takes out the top half of the letters ATO. There ...

Up for sale today, starting at left, is a beautiful Powder Blue H.G. CO./ PETTICOAT CD 145, even has a couple of cottonballs of milk, and, it is about flawless-----none of the typicalwire ridge flaking, no base ...

McLaughlin CD 154 short or tall? This excellent post from Stanley Klein appeared in the ICON digest: My question is- How tall (in inches) is tall and how short (in inches) is short in the CD 154 McLAUGHLIN? I have ...

... , which would not be in the older molds that had to be unscrewed manually. Messed up threads would be less likely with the springs than by ...

Here is looking more into the dome cavity. Note the parting line is at the wire groove, and how the mold halves come apart. With this "3-piece mold" the two hinged pieces go outward leaving the dome portion ...

Here's a shot of the commemorative McLaughlin mold shown at the San Jose National. It shows how the iron parts go together. Next picture looking down into the cavity is here: Remember this was heated up quite hot, ...

Nothing phony about this Tillotson. The color is great. The embossing is strong. The skirt crack travels pretty much all the way around the skirt. There is a shallow finger nail size skirt chip at the right mold line. ...

Got his one from "Mister HEMAH" in Belarus, it is a different looking J Stolle Niemen (from Poland) than the one I posted earlier. Going back about 69 years ago, this was located in Poland, prior to WWII and ...

This CD 226, embossed No 115, has a little added feature, 3/4" of wire in the skirt and it couldn`t be in a better spot!. There is also a nice pot stone in the upper corner of the ear that displays well from the ...

Both of these were puchased fron the same dealer. Both have the number (7) on the dome indicating the same mold. One has a period between the "C" and "O" and no period after the last "TEL". ...

Wow, this is a great piece! Photo back lite in the sunlight, like it would be in your light box. Medium to dark orange amber. Like many great insulators, this has some damage... The dome is fractured. You can see that ...

CD 160.6 AM.TEL. & TEL. CO. VERY SCARCE Embossed on the ( F-Crown) 1 (F-Skirt) AM. TEL. & TEL. CO. (R-Skirt) PAT'D. NOV.13th 1883 Mold line over the dome This old scarce insulator is in outstanding condition ...

I'm not sure of the color, but I'm thinking maybe powder blue. The one on the right has a 10 embossed on top. The one on the right has a 16 embossed on top along with a backwards 16 side by side upper and lower. I found ...

Nice Hemi-blue 66; very clean appearance. 4 partially nicked drips and an inner petticoat chip as shown 2nd pic (and nearby a very shallow small chip on the petticoat). Very faint bruise on mold line near base and 6 ...

Just back from the Yankee Polecat Show with some pieces that were not sold. I am offering some of the better pieces to you folks out there in ICONland at reduced prices, so take advantage of some very nice offers on ...

Just back from the Yankee Polecat Show with some pieces that were not sold. I am offering some of the better pieces to you folks out there in ICONland at reduced prices, so take advantage of some very nice offers on ...

This is a "G" mold which turned out to have some real nice milk runing through it. The color looks like it could be a light cornflower blue. Good start!