Item 394
Current bid: $30 |
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Item: 394 Description: CD 126.4 W.E. Mfg. CO / W.U. (050 - Mold Line Over Base) Blue Aqua. Very pretty color sporting lots of character with the nice straw marks and abundant bubbles. Blue shades in CD 126.4's can be confusing. View 3 compares this item with a cornflower blue Duquesne on its left; Item 395 on the right; followed by a delft blue McLaughlin. W.E. Mfg. stands for Western Electric Manufacturing, a telegraph supply company founded in the 1872 in Chicago. One of the partners was a general superintendent for Western Union, which explains the initials on the reverse side of these. W.E. Mfg. was purchased by American Bell Telephone in 1881 and its name changed to Western Electric Company in 1882. That would indicate Hemingray-made CD 126.4's were produced between 1872 and 1882. This insulator is Grade B for two small flakes on its dome; a small & paper-thin base flake; and four small open bubbles on the base. Oh… this one is an embossing variant in that there is no period after "CO". Estimate: $40 - $50 Open: $20 Current bid: $30 |
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