A Brookfield Color Timeline
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The following is intended to be a documentation and hopefully eventually an agreement on differing colors produced by Brookfield in the 1900-1921 time frame. Hard documentation is limited, but various clues exist which we hope to use to reach a consensus on a color timeline.
Note that this is a continuation of an earlier discussion recorded as The Big Unsolicited Brookfield Question.
Colors
- Light Aqua
- Transition Colors
- Dark Aqua
- Greens
- Blues
Some Established Facts
- Insulator production shifted from Brooklyn to Old Bridge in 1906. Insulator production was the first moved to the new plant[1].
- Last Brooklyn burn was September 1905 - June 1906 (NOTE: this was for insulators only. The plant continued operating for the production of other glassware, with the overall last burn date being September 1911-June 1912.[2]
- First Old Bridge burn was September 1906 - June 1907
- Sharp Drip Points were first advertised on Brookfield insulators in 1909. It seems likely that they first appeared on actual insulators in late 1909 or early 1910.
==Footnotes=="
- ↑ https://reference.insulators.info/publications/view/?id=2096
- ↑ Lee Brewer, "A Comprehensive Guide to Collecting and Identifying Crown Embossed Brookfield
Beehive Insulators Including an Extensive Study of Brookfield Glass Company History." Published by G. Lee Brewer, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania: 2015 p. 84
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