The embossing is HEMINGRAY on one side of the skirt and PATE NT over MAY 2 1893. Note that there is a space between the E and N and a double space between the 2 and 1893. But the real nice part about this insulator is ...

Offered up for your consideration are three straight side CD 127s. As most of you know, these are hard pieces to come by and seldomly offered for sale. The pieces are numbered 1 to 3. All exibit some form of damage but ...

Here is a classic glass insulator. This is the embossing (010) with the embossing on the base of the inner skirt: Boston Bottle Works Patent Applied For with the mold line over the dome. Has four segmented threads and a ...

Here is a beauty ...you see them all the time in aqua and blue aqua but this one is a nice light green. Mold line over the dome and a "1" or a bar on the side of the dome. Has a open base bubble. In addition ...

This is the G mold. Damage consisists of some light chipping around about three quarters of the upper wire ridge with a 3/4" narrow and shallow wire chafe up from the wire groove at the left mold line. Nice purple ...

Here is the CD 133 BROOKFIELD [230] mold series #1-#6. The last one on the right is a CD 133 BROOKFIELD [050] in MINT condition with a large underpour. That one is on a subsequent ICON listing. All the CD's are VNM+ ...

This is one beautiful piece of glass. Rich color (better than my camera could pick up) and spectacular condition. I see one or two minute nicks at the mold line {MLOD}. There's a 1/4" very thin scratch near the ...

Take a look at this little threadless and then check out the price. You`ll think I`ve gone loco! Just to the right of the embossing there is a small skirt flake that just nubs the edge of the G. On the reverse side ...

Looks like the bottom loop of the P in PETTICOAT was not completed during the mold engraving.

Here's the base shot. The embossing is F- Brookfield, R- New York. It is ice aqua and there are no dome mold numbers. I'm sure someone can educate me on this one. Thanks!!

Shows the color in both a little better, but not as good as the real deal. Note that the green one is the unembossed Tillotson mold.

Nice milky swirled cobalt blue CD 162 [070] Hemingray No 19. This one has milk swirls in the skirt, inner petticoat wire groove & dome. 2 partially flaked drip points near the mold line on the inside (less than 20% ...

CD 145 insulator embossed G.N.W. TEL. CO [010]. The colour is MEDIUM to LIGHT PURPLE, with darker swirls in the dome. There is a tong mark above the "E", 1/8" hard to see fisheye on the back dome and a 1 ...

... . All the Petticoats were "K" molds ...

Offered for sale is a nice bright blue aqua CD 138. Embossed front crown W.Brookfield, 45 Cliff St. N.Y., front skirt POSTAL Tel. Co. Rear Dome sports a bold 2. Two micro pecks to the right mold line at the upper wire ...

I'm offering up this green/aqua CD 126.4 for your perusal. This piece is loaded with milk zig-zags through the dome and down the skirt just touching the right hand side of the embossing. The milk does not show up in the ...

Here's a dandy CD 133.4 in a sagey aqua green. Nice consitent overpoured base, ghost embossing on the dome and crisp patent embossing make this a honey of a display piece. On the damage front there's not much to ...

Pictured for your consideration is a superb CD 121 WFG CO. I'd say this piece is a steely delft in color . The outsatnding feature of this toll is the olive meteor situated in the sweet spot right behind the W in WFG. ...

Just about all the major colors here! Light Green, Straw and Blue. Condition: Light Green... Looks clean! ... Straw ... tiny ding in the WG, small flake at the left mold line ... Blue ... 1/16" flake on the base if ...

Nice looking signal. Very minor damage of a faint wire rub near the left mold line. The mold line edge on the upper wire groove is quite sharp, and there are just a few areas of very minor roughness. Easily VVNM on this ...

Picked up this insulator this weekend. Rather common ol' 121 Hemi toll in Hemi-blue you may say. . . look carefully at the skirt. . .this guy has the BEST orange peel effect I have ever seen on a Hemingray product. Must ...

This is a group of J.H. Weston glass Lightning Rod Insulators that I will be displaying up at the Springfield, Ohio show in November. This group covers two mold styles of single groove, and five mold styles of side tab ...

I don't know the embossing index here, just that it's a CREB, W. Brookfield/45 Cliff St./N.Y. with no mold # or patent. It's pictured next to my bluest CD 133 [230] to show off the green color. Condition is great, just ...

... for the insulators mixed in with the molds. Both pieces have faint hints of blue speckle. See? I told you this stuff doesn't make sense ...

... (which were covered with 6' of broken molds, used to make insulators before 1912), and the 2 frags I found with 1904 dates, and the broken T& ...