Close-up of mold line, which looks like the "sheet metal" mold described for some ECM 123s. I've never noticed these before. Has anyone else? FWIW, both mold lines wrap around the bottom of the outer skirt on ...

Close-up of left mold line, which looks like the "sheet metal" mold line described for ECM 123s.

On the subject of Hawleys and quality control, this one has a weird dimple-top, as if the glass was too hot when it was taken out of the mold. Of course, mistakes like that just make our collections richer.

clear? Maybe a tiny hint of color. As clear as I've seen. Tiny pinpoint flake on mold imperfection on dome. TINY!!

These finds are from yesterday, and are from a former-telegraph line, turned into a Rail Beacon line. I found several crossarms covered in glass, as a fallen tree had ripped off crossarms for almost a mile. We found: ...

... must have been hundreds of different molds for these things ...

Same mold but different glass batch.

This is the somewhat desirable no lower wire groove lip variant of the CD 127. The neat thing about this one is that the threading, which is very smooth and slightly offset (kind of like you sometimes see on EC&Ms) ...

For your reference are the two mold variants in the California, CD 152, Hoopskirt insulator. The green on the left is the more common mold type. Notice the fuller, more squarish dome, the shoulders on the skirt and if ...

Profiles of Hamilton base round bottom pieces and two MLAB - mold line around base pieces

On the right is the first Hemingray No.9, offered BEFORE the drip point patent of May 2 1893. On the left is the same mold, modified with a dripped base mold plate. These often have what essentially look like ROUND ...

Too bad for the chips.

The insulator on the right was one of my first finds. It sat on a shelf covered in soot until yesterday when I soaked it in oxalic acid. The soot was covering an interesting color, it's sort of gray, smokey with almost ...

One of the classic EC&M molds, the D, or "Tin" mold is distinctive in that it has parallel lines along the mold line, ...

Pretty color in an unusual mold. The upper wire groove is especially thicker than normal. I can count on one hand the number of these I've seen. How about you?

Seven of the drip points on this Hemingray 42 are pointed or conical, while all the rest are uniformly round. I don't think this was an underpour, but an incomplete machining of the mold. I'm speculating that the mold ...

Mixed drips (round and sharp) up close & personal. All but seven of the drip points on this otherwise ordinary Hemingray 42 are uniformly rounded. I believe that the pointed conical odd-balls were resulted from ...

I picked this HGCO beehive out of a pile of aqua ones. Even with the dirt on it, it sparkled! This one is an "M" mold.

We went back out hunting again today and pulled a few more pieces....The CREB is another of those with the "FAB" error, mold #1 in a very pretty green with amber swirls. Check out the nice little CD 160 ...

I was lucky enough to find both mold variants of the California 102 with good dome glass. And both have nice milky junk in them too!

... " of the blobtop Double-Star 2 molds and a Double-Star with wedge drips - both with nice dome glass! The SB unit runs from a nice green ...

This photo shows the two different mold types from Sterling and later, Harloe - All with nice dome glass!

This photo shows the mold lineage from Sterling to Harloe to Star - All with nice dome glass!

I am posting this for sale notice for Ron Norton. For Sale: Beautiful Sapphire Blue CD 145 N.E.G.M. beehive. A super color that puts even strong blue aqua's to shame! Condition is good with just a 3/8" by 1/4" ...

Another unusual color that is only known in this early unembossed mold style. A lot of lavender purple swirls give it a two-tone effect. Majority of these I've seen in this mold have damage like this one. When's the ...