jaroadshow in London , Ont.

[jaroadshow]

Well , I haven't gone back to my Insulator dump for a few weeks, but I will be going this Saturday. Last Sunday for Fathers Day my oldest son and I hit a few abandoned railway poles outside of London and plucked about a dozen insulators off the poles plus my son picked up a nice "bottle glass" in appearance G.N.W. TEL. CO. off the ground at the base of one of the poles. My son climbed the poles and one of the insulators he pulled down is a nice No. 40 green in appearance with no drip points and lots of "Snow" throughout the entire insulator. I am attaching pictures of the No. 40 It is mint and lots of crudity on the glass. A real eye catcher.

I hope the pictures does it justice.

I am also posting pictures of a Brookfield we found at my Insulator dump awhile back. It has no drip points and no inner skirt. Is this a good one or a fairly common one ?

Thanks

jaroadshow

 

[jaroadshow]

Heres another picture !

 

[jaroadshow]

Heres another picture !

 

[jaroadshow]

Heres another picture !

 

[jaroadshow]

Heres the Brookfield piece.

 

[jaroadshow]

Here's the underside of the Brookfield.

 

[BillinMo]

I love that snowy No 40. Great-looking piece. It sure looks like late Brookfield glass to me, but I don't know for certain if these have been confirmed as Brookfield production.

The other one, the small single skirt signal embossed Brookfield looks like a common one, but might make an okay trader since it's not overwhelmingly common.

 

[Brains]

those No.40's like what you have there are brookfields- i think i found a few outside of springfield ohio with both the brookfield and the No40 embossing. There was also 5 or 6 or so big abandoned furnaces that looked like old iron furnaces along that stretch of railroad and i have no idea why they are there.... but that's another story. (they're off cold springs road )

Sometimes the snowy No40's are a nice light blue aqua colour-

I can't quite tell from the pictures, but i know brookfields commonly show up with what appear to be little drip points on their inner skirts- what those are argh "vent holes" or "vent drips".......... whatever you want to call them. I guess excess glass.... or something sort of came out of holes in the mold and left behind these little drips.

I always manage to break them off when i try to clean off my insulators.... it's disappointing