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Manufacturer: California
Mnfr Code: 10
Date: 1912 - 1916
Colors: Sage Green
Usage: Guy Wire Strain
The McDougalds' 2003 Glass Insulators Price Guide says the only known embossing is California. Average size is 3 inch length, 2.25 inch base diameter.
Brian Riecker's site includes photos of a CD 1130 California in Sage Green, as well as an unlisted Green CD 1130 California.
Charles Irons sold an unlisted Green CD 1130 manufactured by Folembray (foreign from France), in Insulators.info's For Sale photo gallery. He also sold an unlisted, unembossed Emerald Green CD 1130. Bill Kemp posted a Sage Green CD 1130 California.
The NIA's Glass Strain Insulators page says "Although all relatively uncommon, there are a variety of glass strain insulators available. These were typically used to insulate a telephone or power pole guy wire from ground."
Pyrex's Plain Facts About Insulators brochure, available at the Peninsulators site, says "Because of pressing limitations, some shapes -- guy strain insulators, for example -- are difficult to make at all."
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