Item 10
Current bid: $750 |
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Item: 10 Description: CD 102 N.W. & B.I.T. (020) Purple with Milky Stringer & Nice Bubbles. Beautiful color. The initials stand for New Westminster and Burrard Inlet Telephone Company. The community of Burrard Inlet is known today as Vancouver, British Columbia. The telephone company was founded in 1886 to service the burgeoning community at the terminus of Canada's Transcontinental Railroad. Item 10 and Item 11 were made in re-worked molds for an insulator embossed Ness, McLaren & Bate / Montreal. Confirmation comes from the location of a comma on the reverse side that somehow didn't get blotted out. See View 2. There are additional faint marks from the blot out visible on the reverse skirt. For a greater explanation, see the description for Item 12. View 3 shows a milky stringer in the dome that overlaps itself like some kind of motor-cross track. From the side, the stringer looks like a coiled spring. See View 1. Also note the nice bubbles in that picture. Additional character includes a ghost embossed "W" on the front dome. And, of course, all that solid dome glass. Even better… the condition. Grade A-Plus . This one is worth a premium for so many reasons. View 4 compares this insulator with Item 11 and Item 12, which is a much clearer example of a Ness, McLaren & Bate blot-out. Estimate: $700 - $800 Open: $360 Current bid: $750 |
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