This clean, shiny, old W.U. Pat. Dec. 19 1871 is in excellent shape, I see one very shallow 1/4"x 3/16" base flake toward back and one unnoticeable nick 1/8x1/8 bottom of mold line. I won't pretend to have ...

Embossed NO 2 TRANSPOSITION over HEMINGRAY with a patent date on the reverse skirt. So close to mint......only a small spot of wire groove roughness on the left side at the mold line ( about 1/2" long & really ...

Both of these insulators have an "X2" shop mark on the dome, but it's clear from the photo that they were not from the same mold. I shimmed the Brookfield to make the heights match, and the blotouts generally ...

Here's a white glazed tube next to a CD 102 for size comparison. Not sure if this is a wall tube or maybe a bushing, I'll let you decide. Pronounced mold line on this piece. The hole through it measures approx 2" ...

Light Green Canadian toll insulator with messed up embossing, in more ways than one! Not only is DOMINION misspelled as DOMINIOIN, but a pair of straw marks cut through the dash and the number 16. The base is ...

Nice, heavy Canadian beehive, made for the Hudson's Bay Railroad. Usual aqua color with a bit of glass sag in the inner skirt. One small BB ding near right mold line just below wire groove, and another the same size on ...

A fresh out of the mold, and still incandescent suspension disk. [IFONA]

Here the insulators are fresh out of the mold, and still a glowing incandescent glass. Too hot to handle! [IFONA]

Here is another EXACT mold with the upside down (16 or 19) and a regular 16 below it, with embossing on the back. this one is in much better shape then my first post, embossing is real crisp.

UPDATE, after i posted this i noticed the (253) mold that lists number over number so i guess i figured it out. I was going through all my CD 145's tonight putting them on my site www.myinsulators.com/dukeboo i came ...

... picture of the 3 different WGMCO CD 145 molds. Starting left to right is the [010] in Royal Purple, [015] {Grand Canyon} in Purple, and [020] { ...

Another longtime piece from my collection. CD 121 W.F.G. Co. in a true cornflower blue. No lavenflower or hints of purple in this one. Ghosted WFG above the normal embossing. 2 dot mold. I know it is very hard to say ...

Large impressive Hemingray embossing. Mold style found in Erie PA Front ear chips. $20.00 includes shipping

VNM with stone above "Petticoat". Some shade of blue, blue aqua, Not strong like sapphire. $15.00 includes shipping.

... so crude & out of line on the seam molds it looks like a kid put it together!!! All mint or very near mint ...

and yet another 20 mold.

yet another 20 mold

... Chris Sistrunk and he mentioned the 20 molds are in demand for tracking down, so here is another of mine ...

Bought this one at an auction right down the street. Decided to keep it after it did not sell on eBay. Picture might not show it all that well, but my color experts say it is Yellow Green

These photos are a result of a conversation at the 2004 National about cornflower blue, between Harold Jacobus and Lee Brewer. Lee was admiring Harold's H.G. Co. CD 145 (pictured here, on the left). It is true ...

On the left a rare U-2 part mold insulator which you don't see much at all, next a beautiful colored pony with carved top & CRUDELY line carved base, finally, a dome DOUBLE embossed PP INC Stamp embossing. When will ...

Here's a narrow dome variant Brookfield signal. Has a few small and shallow flakes on the upper wire ridge (on the right mold line). A few small rocks here and there and an thin amber stringer running up the back thread ...

A marking on the skirt. The numbers range from 2 to 25 on the units I have. No idea what this represents; mold or batch ?

Here is a side-by-side comparison of a rare aqua "square dome" California hoopskirt, CD 152, on the left. Note the larger, more squarish dome and the shoulders on the skirt. This is the standard mold type ...

Kinda sorta, but not really... Look closely at this CD 143 Great North Western Telegraph Co insulator, specifically between the yellow arrows. There is a mold repair that shows up on the glass as three circles all ...