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#314 735 Tillotson. Dark teal aqua.

  Lot # 314
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#314     735      TILLOTSON & CO.     16 BROADWAY N.Y.       Dark bluish teal aqua.     

 Used on the 1860's Collins Overland Telegraph Company line in British Columbia, Canada.  The line started at New Westminster, following the Fraser River Valley. Upon entering Fraser Canyon, the line paralleled the newly constructed Cariboo Wagon Road to Quesnel, 400 miles north of the U.S. border.  From there it headed northwest into the wilderness.

These attractive pilgrim hat threadless were produced for Tillotson & Company, a railway and telegraph supply house operating under this name during the 1860’s.  Sizable quantities of insulators and other telegraph supplies were shipped from New York City in late 1864, traversed all the way down to Cape Horn and back up the western coast of South America and North America to British Columbia, a distance of nearly 16,000 miles!  They arrived at New Westminster, British Columbia in June, 1865, and were immediately transported to the Fraser River, and destinations further north on the historic Cariboo Wagon Road.

The same color as lot #214 in our recent April 2020 sale.

Arc embossed on both the dome and skirt. All the dome embossing is readable and the skirt lettering is strong.

Appears to have been broken in five pieces and expertly glued together.  One large piece comprises about 60 to 70 % of the insulator.  No glass missing and no resin repair.   Likely found by the late Bert Kirkland of 100 Mile House, British Columbia in the 1980's.