Insulator Discussion forum?

[sparrow75]

I just started getting into insulators 6mos ago or so, and I'm looking for a discussion forum about insulators ( like this bottle forum) that is pretty active. So far I can't find one? Anyone have suggestions? Thanks!

 

[cyberdigger]

I have a suggestion.. start a discussion here and see if anyone responds.. welcome to NJB..!

 

[sparrow75]

Will do! I'll take a few pictures tomorrow about an insulator I have a question about. It's a Lynchburg cd 154 (32), but the color isn't listed in the 2011 price guide. so either I have the wrong embossing or the color isn't listed for it. Not sure how much color variation exists from what is in the book? The color I have is light aqua or ice blue, I think.

 

[Brains]

sometimes not every color for every embossing is listed- things like having a green aqua insulator when only aqua is listed or something like that usually aren't a big deal, and sometimes don't get into the guide because there isn't a point in making a listing for say, every shade of aqua or green or blue or something like that. Of course on ebay someone's always got to mention that their color is unlisted in the guide, even though thousands of insulators in that colour exist. Usually if i have something that isn't in the guide i look to see if it's a color that whatever company made the insulator made other insulators in, and if it is common to that company i just disregard it as being nothing special because there's got to be others like it. Unless of course it's like purple or cobalt blue or some weird colour that no one's ever seen before or that the company hardly ever made insulators in, then it probably wouldn't be in the guide because no one's herd of it before or something.
I'm a little tired, so i bet what i just said doesn't make much sense, and to that i say, "eaugh..."

An ice aqua/ blue lynchburg? Those are pretty common colours for lynchburg stuff, it's possible that what you have might not be in the guide, but it's unlikely that it's more uncommon than other light blue lynchburg 154's- they wouldn't have made just a few of that coloured insulator and then switched to some other colour eh? There'd be as many of those as there was light blue or aqua glass, just maybe for that embossing it got left out of the guide because someone was lazy. I'm lazy, if i made the guide it would have aqua, blue, green, purple, clear and orangy-amber.

ICON sends out a news feed mail thing...icon digest, it's sort of like a forum.... that comes in your email. There used to be a couple forums, but no one on them liked each other so they all sorta fizzled out.... i think.
You can discuss insulators here, there's a few smart collector's on here, but i'm also here, and i'm easily side tracked from the main insulator discussion by my side insulator discussion topics that are vaguely related to the main discussion topic... but i also know a lot about the colour aqua.
Post your insulator, and it shall have it's final judgement cast upon it

 

[sparrow75]

Brains - thanks for the info, makes a lot of sense. I do see a lot of Lynchburg insulators in this color, so I think your right on. Another thing that is throwing me off is in the price guide (Briel), the embossing that matches the insulator pictured here (CD 154 [53], has it as a RDP, but mine is SDP. I've seen this drip point variation on other insulators I've come across, so I'm assuming this is another common variation? I also have a CD 154 [32] in this same color.

Color is tricky, and I guess the more insulators you see the more you'll understand the variations out there.

The picture makes the color a little darker than it really it (taken on a light box).

 

[BillinMo]

Brains has given you lots of great info there (and despite what he says, he knows a lot about insulators!). We have no true insulator forum, but the ICON email list server seems to work well, has been around for about 17 years and it's a lot cheaper to maintain. You can learn more about joining here: http://www.insulators.info/icon/

Lots of info about Lynchburg here: http://www.lynchburginsulators.com

I'm not sure what you have there, and it's a bit tough to tell from the photo. I'm not a Lynchburg expert, but I know some of their drip points sort of blur the line between sharp and round. It might also be possible your insulator is listed under a different embossing index, like [057] or [080] that are listed in aqua with SDP, with a mold number -- and the mold number on yours is very light and difficult to see.

Best way to know for certain is to contact a Lynchburg specialist or Don Briel. They'll probably want to see your insulator in person to confirm if it's a new listing or not.

Generally, though, even if it's a new listing, it won't have a value significantly different than the other aqua 154 Lynchburgs.

 

[sparrow75]

BillinMO: Looks like you hit it on the head! Now that I'm looking for it, the insulator in the above picture does have a very lightly embossed No. above the "made in No 44 USA"!!! Looks like a "3" or something. So with this, it now matches the book for a CD 154 [80].

I guess i still don't know the color...I'll take a pic outside in natural light and post back soon.

Thanks, I think the mystery with the drip points is solved!

 

[sparrow75]

Here are a few better pictures in natural light. Any opinions on color? I'd guess light aqua, but then there is blue aqua and ice blue?
thanks

 

[sparrow75]

one more picture in a little different light situation

 

[Brains]

looks like light blue or light blue aqua from the picture- a common color for lynchburg 154's, i have one that looks exactly the same and there's a railroad in columbus with a lot of them that are that lynchburg light blue/aqua colour still up in the air. If light blue aqua isn't listed it's most likely just a coincidence, there's probably more with that embossing in that colour it's just that it's so slight a variation from what's listed so it doesn't always get included in the guide.

The guide isn't always the best thing to use to determine a colour, there's just too many different shades to possibly list them all i figure. The other not-best thing is those spec-true colour slides... i love it when an aqua brookfield doesn't match the aqua slide on the spec-true, so it must be a rare unlisted colour.