Item 26
Closing price: $110 |
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Item: 26 Description: CD 126.4 W.E. Mfg. (030) Teal Aqua from “THE JOURNEY OF DEATH”. Note the 2.5 inch-long bubble in the threads in View 1. That bubble is naturally open to the pin hole. The insulator is full of tiny bubbles. It leans to one side due to a large over pour on the base. But the main factor with this insulator is the color. It’s a pretty good “tealish” color in View 1 and View 2. View 3 compares the color to a CD 126.4 in lime green (Item 119). In View 4 I show the insulator next to a teal blue bottle that I use as a guide for the color “teal”. And there you can see it isn’t quite true teal. So, “Teal Aqua” it is. This insulator was removed from an abandoned line along a stretch of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in an area of southern New Mexico called “Viaje de la Muerte” (THE JOURNEY OF DEATH). The collector who took it down in 1985 has owned it until now. Next stop: Your House. Grade B: No chips nor flakes. There’s a bruise near the base in the skirt in View 1; some faint annealing lines in the skirt; and two faint flash-over marks on the reverse skirt. Estimate: $200 - $250 Open: $110 Closing price: $110 |
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