A real beauty from up North! This CD 102 is embossed with a single Diamond on the skirt. The color is a medium teal blue that passes light very well. The condition is good, has a 1.5" shallow flat sliver off the ...

The specimen on the left is the result of radiation exposure. It was recently exposed to a radiation source for the NIA Altered Insulators Educational Exhibit. The original color was medium aqua. Watch out for those ...

Here is a nice teal aqua E.C&M. with a large graphite bubble on the right mold line. There is a base chip below the bubble but it does not touch and the bubble is intact. Has a ton of micro bubbles as well. Fun ...

This is a great piece I bought from eBay. The name is blotted off on top of the ear. The nice thing about it is half of the drips are round and the other half are sharp. The RDP change into SDP right at the mold line. ...

Well, you learn something new everyday. I received an email about this insulator. I had it listed as a deformed CD 152. Come to find out its a more "squatty" mold variation. Very interesting. I've owned it ...

... against Novelty, and inherited their molds as part of the settlement. It wouldn't take much for Brookfield to determine who the customer for ...

Here is a almost pristine CD 123 ECM CO. A nice light bluish aqua color. Some steam and fizz. Also a little streak of amber in the skirt at the right mold line. Some thick overpour glass lines on the mold lines. Two ...

Here is a VVNM CD 263 Hemingray Columbia in a nice green aqua color. Nice amber swirling in the left ear. There is a teeny nick base edge flake just in front of the left mold line, a 1/4 inch long section of inner skirt ...

Here is an outstanding color for a beehive. A golden/yellow/amber HG CO Petticoat. Embossing index [130] - I mold. Lots of fizz in the glass. This one is not mint. There is a skirt crack that starts just to the left of ...

I just noticed a mold-line around the skirt of my tall Brookfield CD 101. This one has the No. 9 on the back. Compared to the "regular" one on the right, the mold line is right where the base is on the ...

Since this was for demonstration purposes only, an annealing oven was not present. To possibly save a few of the finished insulators from cooling too quickly and self-destructing, they were placed in vermiculite and ...

The insulator is removed from the mold with tongs.

The mold is placed under the press, then with one quick motion the glass is pressed into the mold and the insulator is completed.

Here the molten glass is dropped from the gathering rod into the mold as Fred cuts off the correct amount with shears.

Looking closely at the lower left portion of the photo, you can see a gather of molten glass on the end of the iron gathering rod just seconds before it is carried over and dropped into the mold.

At the 2003 Springfield, Ohio Show, Wilkerson Glass demonstrated the techniques used for making glass insulators-on a miniature level. This process was not much different than that performed in the early glasshouses of ...

[100] A piece of metal is enclosed in the dome, trapped in a huge bubble and surrounded by olive swirls. Just below this is another, even larger bubble. These are located near the right mold seam. This insulator has ...

Nice one in a light Hemi Blue. Small cluster of three drip points halved and shaved to the right of the No. 44 (rear) embossing, and one miniscule fisheye tic on the upper wire ridge at the mold line. Displays Mint from ...

I purchased a new (080) Star CD 102 today, when i was adding it to my site www.myinsulators.com/dukeboo i noticed that i already had one, but when i looked at the picture and reminded my self what it looks like, i have ...

CD 162.4 in straw. Smooth base. There is a very small flake off of the mold line just inside the wire groove. Also a couple of even smaller (flea size) flakes near the base mold line. Nothing that is apparent when ...

H.G.CO. PETTICOAT - Hemingray Blue. Picture color is off!! this piece is a gorgeous Hemingray blue color (I have/had cornflowers in various shades, aquas, and other Hemi blue - I know the color well) in real life. As ...

... 's were made from old Brookfield CREB molds. There are similarities as seen in the photos of this purple CREB number 13 [085] and this green ... is that Brookfield sold the old CREB molds to Canada and they hollowed them out, made them larger to remove embossing, and poured their own ...

... 's were made from old Brookfield CREB molds. There are similarities as seen in the photos of this purple CREB number 13 [085] and this green ... is that Brookfield sold the old CREB molds to Canada and they hollowed them out, made them larger to remove embossing, and poured their own ...

Well if you have been holding out for a nice one here you go. In the [070] embossing for sale is a deep glowing cobalt blue signal. There is some over pour on the base mold line that is nibbled here and there but is ...

Absolutely glowing peacock 162 HG CO in Great condition with the prismatic embossing. Damage consist of two halved drips (at each mold line), 1/4" flake under MAY, 1/4" x 1/4" light chip and extremely ...