Nice example with the older two-piece mold. Piece has three paper-thin minor flakes near the base and four MINOR flakes on the upper and lower wire ridges on the back and couple of other flea-bites. This is a gorgeous ...

hi, i have for sale/trade this beautiful cal electric works that has a lot of character, condition wise the piece is pretty good it has couple of fingernail-thin1/2" long slivers, one off the rear side of the dome ...

Excellent CD 150 Brookfield. Clear, crisp embossing; clean and shiny glass. Only flaws are a clean flake associated with an open bubble on the base rim just behind the right mold line; and a thumbnail-sized isc, which ...

The view looking down on the domes, all with backwards 2s. I would SWAG they were hatched out of the same mold, or at least made in the same batch.

Are these two insulators from the same manufacturer? They are the same embossing index [010]

Here is an example of a CD 132 1871 Hemingray product with the mold line that goes across the base. Normally the mold line is at the outside of the skirt; here it is at the inside of the skirt, which requires extending ...

CD 121 W.G.M. Toll in royal purple with a nearly two inch long bubble along the base. It is very tough to find large bubbles in W.G.M. insulators and this is a nice one. The bubble has a small open spot along the inner ...

Beautiful CD 113 Hemingray No 12 in dark yellow olive green. Fantastic VVNM condition with a tiny flake on a mold line that looks like it came from the factory and one small spot with light wire rub. This baby is soooo ...

This CD 106.1 insulator produced by the Duquesne Glass Co. has an unlisted embossing, sort of a hybrid between the [010] and [035] embossing indices in that it has a dome number AND it also has the periods following ...

Over all this one is in pretty good shape. There are three wire grove chips that are finger nail size and some rub marks. there is also a tiny base nibble and a pinky nail ding on the lower skirt. This all sounds worse ...

They don't call 'em "crown jewels" for nothing! Sparkling example of a smoke colored CD 143 "whittle mold" with a hint of purple that we picked from a pole ourselves in late 2000. One of our ...

Here's a nice one in a medium shade of Cobalt Blue. I see a few green ones once in a while, but the cobalts are really getting hard to find. Condition? it has the usual roughness where they ground it when they separated ...

CD 106 dated Hemingray 9 in VNM condition with a large dimple in the dome. Apparently a bubble formed between the mold and the glass leaving behind a large cavity. A neat addition for a 106 or defect specialist. Asking ...

... thing is that they are different molds (notice the size of the stars and the upper wire groove). On top of that, they are close to the ...

Greetings! This is a nice pair of radio strains. The purple strain has a tiny nick on each side of the mold line on the loop that does not have the factory grind area. The green strain - could be a depression green, but ...

Greetings! This is a yellow green CD 112 - embossed (front skirt) LYNCHBURG No. 31 (rear skirt) L (in a circle) 6 MADE IN/U.S.A. (dome) 10 - it has big round drip points. There is one missing drip point and a couple ...

The newest style of Holly City porcelain miniature is this Roman Helmet. Embossed HOLLY [Holly leaves] CITY, N.J., it is glazed light turquoise. The inside of the skirt is glazed, the pinhole and bottom are unglazed. It ...

An I-mold beehive with some milk swirls plus a potstone big enough to have made a couple small fractures surrounding it [located in pic under CO.]Has 3-4 very small base flakes maybe 1/8 by 1/4 inch but still real nice. ...

snot swirl goes up and over the dome (side to side entirely) then all the way down to the base, then bends around and comes half way up the skirt again! and where it end a nice large potstone sits floating, wont be ...

Since I know several insulator collectors are bottle collectors as well, I thought I'd ask this forum first. I have a very old flask I inherited from my grandfather when he passed away years ago. He told me that it has ...

My contribution to the twins category are these two CD 152's. Picked by me off adjoining pins they have the most pronounced mold line I have ever seen on a glass insulator. In profile, a side view of the left insulator ...

... 9's.Notice the differences in the molds. All the domes are different. Flat to round to wide round. This is what happen when a guy ...

Again, One is stamped and one is prizmatic. the stamped one has great amber while the prizmed has great personality also.2 different times into the mold.

Nice solid beefy looking 3 dot mold CD 121 W.F.G. Co. in a not often seen color. I would call this color an off-clear. Perhaps it is as clear as can be expected in a W.F.G. Co. There is a very slight greenish tint to ...

These two insulators are of the same mold type. One was formed and cooled properly, while the other sort of imploded on itself because it was still too hot / soft to hold its own weight. Apparently the shop crew felt it ...