CD 143 No Name Canada Whittle Mold, Very strong whittling, colour is very light grey almost clearish with hundreds of tiny bubbles and swirls in the dome. Condition is very good for one of these, 2 small base chips and ...
Posted by Steve Goodell on March 17, 2003 - 0.4kb
Left is a sharp drip points tipped in Brookfield and the right no emb. canada threaded to base sharp drips tipped in could these to be possible from the same mold as they are very very similar maybe the no emb. was a ...
Posted by Craig Boehm on March 16, 2003 - 0.3kb
Anyone ever seen this mold variant in a Star 145? Shown alongside a common "B" for comparison.
Posted by Brent Burger on March 15, 2003 - 0.1kb
Left to Right -
010 Regular Style - Olive Green
020 - Pointed Dome Style - Yellowish Green
030 - Postal Style - Deep Green
040? - Beefy Style? - Yellow Green
Seen any others?
Posted by Brian Riecker on March 15, 2003 - 0.2kb
The yellow example shown is just about as yellow as they get, and the oxblood (transition mold) is almost as red as an insulator has ever been made for commercial purposes. Most oxblood's exhibit this nice red ...
Posted by Joe Maurath, Jr. on March 7, 2003 - 0.3kb
This insulator was acquired from a trade in the early 1970s. It is owned by the same person as described above and he was kind enough to send it to me for photographing. The owner traded several duplicate cobalt and ...
Posted by Joe Maurath, Jr. on March 7, 2003 - 0.3kb
... they were produced in different molds. The amber one was on loan to me and it has a small chip on its reverse side. The violet blue one ...
Posted by Joe Maurath, Jr. on March 7, 2003 - 0.4kb
This is *one* simply beautiful example of the colored glass from the Hemingray Glass Company! This piece, along with others that you will be seeing posted by me, is owned by a retired utility company employee in the ...
Posted by Joe Maurath, Jr. on March 7, 2003 - 1.8kb
A great one for the CD collector. An unusual piece that came out of an antique store in Durango, CO. Normally, these have some damage to the ears, and this is no exception. However, there is no "plastic" on ...
Posted by Bill Meier on February 19, 2003 - 0.7kb
I am offering up a CD 303/310 two-piece Hemingray "Coolie" insulator, complete with pin. Most of these have some damage and this is no exception: a few pings to the skirt, a 1/2 inch narrow gouge/flake from ...
Posted by John Rajpolt on February 16, 2003 - 0.5kb
CD 126 Brookfield {price guide index [120]}. This is the tough variant with the embossing above and below the wire groove. All embossing is readable with
a small mold number 1. This is the most embossing you will find ...
Posted by Dave Wiecek on February 15, 2003 - 0.6kb
Here is a tough to find squatty W.G.M. toll. This baby must have come out of the mold a little too hot and has a really neat squished look to it. It is about 1/4 inch shorter than a standard W.G.M. toll. Just a couple ...
Posted by Mike Green on February 10, 2003 - 0.4kb
Here is a CD 154 Dominion-42 in a nice red orange amber. Fantastic glowing color in the sun. There is a 1 inch chip to the underside of the upper wire ridge at the left mold line. Otherwise, it is vvnm. With just a ...
Posted by John Rajpolt on February 9, 2003 - 0.3kb
Here's another goody we got from the line crew, a junky [030] BROOKFIELD CD 164. A lot of these insulators had inner skirt damage due to the engineering style of the metal pins they were attached to. the inner skirt ...
Posted by (private) on January 22, 2003 - 0.4kb
I have this fat old dude that doesn't look like ANY H.G.CO. I have ever seen. It does look like the bar/8 no name variant that some call a KCGW product. You will note a very odd embossing style when compared to the ...
Posted by Brent Burger on January 20, 2003 - 0.4kb
I have this fat old dude that doesn't look like ANY H.G.CO. I have ever seen. It does look like the bar/8 no name variant that some call a KCGW product. You will note a very odd embossing style when compared to the ...
Posted by Brent Burger on January 20, 2003 - 0.3kb
I have this fat old dude that doesn't look like ANY H.G.CO. I have ever seen. It does look like the bar/8 no name variant that some call a KCGW product. You will note a very odd embossing style when compared to the ...
Posted by Brent Burger on January 20, 2003 - 0.4kb
Upon Mr. Meier's request I shall explain slug embossing a little better to help others learn what slug embossing is.
Slug embossing was used to remove old embossing on an insulator. The old embossing was ground off ...
Posted by Justin Stoudt on January 14, 2003 - 0.4kb
Slug embossing was used to remove old embossing on an insulator. The old embossing was ground off and to do so more of the metal of the mold had to be removed around the embossing as well. The new embossing was then ...
Posted by Justin Stoudt on January 13, 2003 - 0.4kb
CD 126 Brookfield {price guide index [250]} This one has the Jan 14, 1879 date.
Also unusual in that this one is not a MLOD but is a 3 piece mold. Threaded low to base and bubbles whips into dome as well. 3 tiny pin ...
Posted by Dave Wiecek on January 12, 2003 - 0.3kb
Final mystery pic of this series. What is it? Hard to think that this one could have been a lathe guide, as the piece is not symmetrical around a central axis. I don't believe it could have been turned as is on a lathe. ...
Posted by Ed Holland on January 7, 2003 - 0.5kb
Of the four mystery pieces, this one looks the least like an insulator. Any clues to identity or use of this? See another angle at .
Posted by Ed Holland on January 7, 2003 - 0.1kb
Another view of the item shown in Picture #6. See the next contestant at .
Posted by Ed Holland on January 7, 2003 - 0.1kb
Here's Contestant Number 3. See previous pics for comparisons and questions. Insulator-related, or a pattern for some kind of machine bushing? See another view of this one at
Posted by Ed Holland on January 7, 2003 - 0.2kb
Another view of the item shown in Pic #5 . The next contestant can be seen at .
Posted by Ed Holland on January 7, 2003 - 0.1kb
