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    A lone soldier in my yard!

    Those are awesome finds! I live in Ohio and the only thing I have found in my yard is a few pennies and poison ivy. I didn't have any jewel weed around to put on it. Kept me awake for 4 nights.... History is awesome. Never allow it to be edited, glossed over or erased or we're doomed to repeat it.
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    Blue glass thermometer looking thingy

    Swizzle stick.
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    Civil War era ale?

    He intended to say "Made on a rickets 3 piece mold".
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    Gass Insulator with Iron Cap

    In my 40 years of collecting and dealing with insulators, I have never seen anything like that before on a glass piece. I have seen metal crowns on porcelain insulators, but never glass.
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    Recent Construction Finds.

    That's incredible! I can only dream of such a find and being able to dig it. Bottles OR insulators!
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    Sun backlit photographs

    Great photos! Natural sunlight is best to show the glass' true color. I use sunlight and back lighting in a cabinet for insulators, bottles and other glassware and use 5,000 K full spectrum light. However, real sunlight is the best. Thanks for sharing. Chris m.
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    What Kind of Insulator? Also a 2-Patent.

    Chiming in very late here, but as far as I know, Hemingray and Brookfield didn't make LRIs. However, both glasshouses DID make some small spool type insulators with those CDs spanning from 1045-1106.
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    My property obviously was a dump

    Most of what I see is dating from the 1940s-60s. There's a massive bottle dump about 8 miles from my house that's the same. Thousands of bottles, headlights and junk dating from the 40s-60s. Not worth much in value, but still fun to dig and even better to recycle the glass and get it out of the...
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    Who made the CD 141 cross top

    Determined by glass color, quality and texture, Brookfield made them. BF also made some of the CD 143 Dwight pieces among a good number of other CDs and styles.
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    One For The 'TEEM'

    Awesome collection! I remember drinking Teem when I was a kid. I was 13 when it was discontinued in 84'.
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    Handblown open pontil no identifier glass pyramid shaped help :(

    Reminds me of a fly trap bottle.
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    What's the deal, why all but worthless?!

    The big killer on bottles is shipping. I sell a LOT on eBay and fortunately, since I am a dealer in insulators, I can ship them somewhat economically. I can send up to 6 in a large F-R box. Bottles on the other hand.... no really economical way to ship them unless they fit an $18.95 LFR box...
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    Searching for more information on this insulator

    I am assuming since you said "string" that these are disc shaped porcelain insulators, embossed LOCKE on them, and strung together with a ball-and-socket type or a pin-and-eye type connection. Pin-and-eye clevis type. https://www.insulators.info/pictures/?id=287019124 Ball-and-socket type...
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    Any info on these?

    The G.E. has glass sickness. That's where it's been buried and the minerals in the soil have etched the glass' surface. You cannot remove this sickness by traditional means, i.e. scrubbing or acid soaking, the piece has to be tumbled(the proper way), or you can give it a light coat of clear...
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    Small insulator Group

    The porcelain pieces will have U-numbers, U=Unipart. I am a glass guy but do have a bunch of porcelain in my inventory. However I am not versed at all on U and M(multipart) numbers.
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