Brookfield/9 [230] GREAT COLOR!! Clean, 1" wire ridge chip at rear of left mold line. 1/2" WR fracture. $18.50 shipping included.

Ok you EC&M collectors out there...what color would you call this? How close to teal is it? B-mold.

This is a nice amber Telephone Pioneers No. 1 that I snagged off e-bay a few days ago. Look how it kinda leans over a bit, like it was still a touch too soft when it plopped out of its mold. Nice color, and a touch ...

A classic (and uncommon) embossing error on an early and crude CD 106 Hemingray. These of course are supposed to say 'MAY 2 1893' but the 2 is obviously missing on this one. Some say it might have been engraved before ...

Wow! What a color! Not much for bubbles or neat character, but oh, what a color! Dug with an identical mold/color near Roseville, Calif.

Couple of my favorites....The blob on the left has a goober or two in it, and the EC&M ("B" Mold) has to be about the darkest shade of aqua you can have without being Teal, although it's trying real hard...

On left is the scarce TRUE sage PT mold. This color is only known in this mold. Left center is a golden yellow. Color is difficult to photograph. Much brighter in person. This piece was found by a friend in a bottle ...

Center unit is probably the best C.G.I.Co. green/sca 2-tone known. These have only been found in the PT mold, to my knowledge. It splits green to purple vertically at a slight angle right behind the emb'g (wasn't that ...

On left, a pre-1893 No.9 without drips. This is the first No.9! Center is one made from the same mold series, but with drips and date added. On right is a No.12 in the script style. These date from 1892 to 1895.

Two on left are the larger type. Two on right are noticeably smaller, with completely different emb'g. Left to right, units were picked in Tangent, Oregon; Dufur, Oregon; Mullan, Idaho; and Marshall Canyon, Wash. ...

On the left is a CD 102 single-arc 45 Cliff in a most vivid green. Base is all wavy. Found on a 3 circuit bracket lead near Beatrice, Nebraska in 1977. Fat bullet is a CD 132, sagey grey-green with grey-purple in the ...

Shows both types of known mold variants of the California emb'd CD 102. The PT variant on left is quite rare, probably by 100 to 1, compared to the RT on right. These are only found in "California Blue" or ...

Flip the mutilated CD 259 Cable over and WOAH!!! What the heck happened to it?!? Half of the "guts" are missing, and it was viciously twisted out of the mold - this *was* a base embossed piece. :-O

Here three different "B" molds that came off the same line last weekend. These three were within a couple poles of each other. The ...

No quality control on this one! Excess glass was able to find its way through the mold line to form fins on both sides, particularly to the left side. How these fins survived the elements without being chipped is ...

This poor insulator probably needed an aspirin the size of a control spire after coming out of its mold. It has an unusual protruding inclusion, apparently a small iron object, sticking out of its side. Not ...

A fantastic solid pour, also known as a "mold warmer". This was dug from the Hemingray Factory Dump by Darin Cochran. A CD 121 embossed AM.TEL.& TEL.CO.

... . Hope you can see the difference in molds ...

Insulator mold with mandrels

These are shown in gray scale so as not to bias the viewer... On the left is the typical profile of the most common CD 113's .. the colored ones.. yes, even aqua! ;-) In 1941 (?) they reworked the mold to save a ...