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   1990 >> January >> The 1990 Color Spread  

The 1990 Color Spread

Reprinted from "Crown Jewels of the Wire", January 1990, page 28

                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                           
                                                                                          

Page 29:
TOP LEFT: 
CD 133 (Front crown) PATENT/DEC 19 1871 in a
beautiful purple. (Note embossing was enhanced
with white latex paint). 
DENNIS WEBER
TOP RIGHT: CD 154 HEMINGRAY- 42, MADE IN U.S.A., round drip points. Can't make up its mind if it wants to be 7-up green on a Hemingray blue. 
PAUL KEATING
MIDDLE LEFT: CD 680 Unembossed but as RED an insulator as you will ever see. It was found on the Spanish island of Majorca.
BILL WILLINSKY
MIDDLE RIGHT:  CD 124.3 (Front crown) PATENT/DEC 19 1871 in dark olive green. (Enhanced embossing)
DENNIS WEBER
BOTTOM LEFT:  CD 158 BOSTON BOTTLE WORKS in root beer amber. 
BOB PIERCE
BOTTOM RIGHT: CD 719 Unembossed, known as a "Saratoga", in a cobalt blue. 
CECIL BOOS
Page 30:
TOP LEFT:
CD 160.7 AM. INSULATOR CO. N.Y. DOUBLE PETTICOAT PAT'D SEPT. 13,1881 Nov.13, 1883 in amber. 
LARRY FURO
TOP RIGHT CD 742 Base embossed M.T.Co. in a beautiful dark purple. 
JOHN DORGE
MIDDLE RIGHT: U-202A transposition in a blue glaze. Manufacturer attributed to Pittsburgh High Voltage Porcelain.
BOTTOM LEFT: This is a tremendous go-with. Note that the wood has grown around the insulator whose pin had been attached to the tree trunk. The insulator is a cobalt CD 130.1 CAL ELEC WORKS/PATENT
DALE HUBER
BOTTOM RIGHT: CD 126 Dome embossed W. Brookfield, 55 Fulton St., N.Y., PAT FEB 22nd 1870, JAN 25th 1870, Jan 14th 1879 in red amber. 
MIKE SWANSON
Page 31
TOP LEFT:
CD 133.4 (Front crown) PATENT/ DEC.19, 1871 in cobalt.
CECIL BOOS
TOP RIGHT:  An early telegraph porcelain block insulator in the original wooden side pin. 
JAMES DOTY
MIDDLE LEFT: U- 1695 is an unembossed porcelain piece from Switzerland in a yellow glaze.
MIKE GUTHRIE
BOTTOM LEFT: CD 170.1 is unembossed and has the characteristics of threading made with the Pennycuick patent. The color is a smokey purple. 
WILLIAM REID
BOTTOM RIGHT: CD 143 unembossed with double threading in the pinhole in a medium olive green color.
ERIC HALPIN
PAGE 32:
TOP LEFT:
CD 133.4 Unembossed bullet in medium amber.
TOP RIGHT:  CD 133.4 Unembossed bullet in an unusual mixture of purple and aqua
MIDDLE LEFT: CD 120 Unembossed in medium purple
MIDDLE RIGHT: CD 120.2 PAT APP FOR in emerald green
BOTTOM LEFT: CD 732 Unembossed in jade milk. (The five pieces listed above are owned by a collector who prefers to remain anonymous. We are most grateful for the photographs.)
BOTTOM RIGHT: CD 732 with an elongated skirt. Unembossed in an outstanding puce color. 
BOB PIERCE


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