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My Collection

In the year-plus  I have been collecting, I have accumulated a good number of pieces, 100+
to be exact.  I decided on a specialty in CD 145 beehives, and am starting to pick up a
"sub-specialty", CD 162.1.  Due to the insulator color usage throughout my home state of Virginia, the majority of my collection leans towards Aqua, Green, Blue, and Clear. 

The majority of my collection are Brookfield and Hemingray products, with scattered Whitall-Tatum and
Armstrong pieces.  I am usually looking to buy glass, but I only buy mint condition, glass.  I will trade pieces, of course if the price is right.  At this point, I do not yet sell.

All of the below information comes from the 2003 Official Insulator Price Guide, by the McDougalds.
Do note that the below list is NOT my entire collection, only pieces which I find to be worth showing for one reason or another.  Click the blue manufacturer name to see the piece.

    CD #                              Manufacturer                 Embossing                     Color                              

101

Brookfield [040] Aqua
       
102 Brookfield [020] Green Aqua
  Brookfield [080] Light Green
       
122 Hemingray [030] Hemingray Blue
       
133 Brookfield [310] Light Aqua
       
134 Brookfield [030] Aqua
       
145 H.G.Co [020] Green Aqua
  B [010] Aqua
  B [010] Green Aqua
  B [010] Light Aqua
  B [010] Light Aqua
  B [030] Green Aqua
  B [035] Light Aqua
  B [035] Light Aqua
  B [037] Green
  Brookfield [020] Green Aqua
  Brookfield [030] Green Aqua
  Brookfield [080] Light Aqua
  Hemingray [010] Aqua
  Brookfield [010] Aqua
  Brookfield [100] Light Aqua
  Brookfield [230] Aqua
       
147 Patent-other [005] Aqua
       
151 H.G.Co [140] Aqua
       
152 Brookfield [040] Green Aqua
  Hemingray [010],[020] (Dome shots) Lt. Bl. Aqua, Aqua
  Hemingray [010],[020] Lt. Bl. Aqua, Aqua
  Hemingray [040] Aqua
  Hemingray [040] Aqua w/ amber swirls
Hemingray [085] Aqua
       
154 Hemingray [005] Hemingray Blue
  Hemingray [070] Green
  Hemingray [070] Hemingray Blue
  Hemingray [140] Clear
  Whitall Tatum [010] Pink
  Whitall Tatum [050] Ice Aqua
  Whitall Tatum [080] Light Aqua
  Hemingray [090] Hemingray Blue
  Lynchburg [070] Green Aqua
       
155 Armstrong [010] Clear
  Armstrong [030] Light Smoke
  Hemingray [030] Clear
  Whitall Tatum [010] Straw
  Whitall Tatum [040] Light Straw
       
162 Hemingray [070] Green Aqua
  Star [010] Light Blue
       
162.1 Brookfield [030] Emerald Green
  Brookfield [030] Green
       
162.5 B [010] Aqua
       
214 Hemingray [030] Clear
       
216 Armstrong [010] Root Beer Amber
       
230 No Name [010] Clear
       
272 Armstrong [020] Root Beer Amber