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#677 - CD 123.1 - CHESTER N.Y. - Rich blue aqua. 
- Sold Winning Bid: $4,500.00
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- Lot # 677
- System ID # 295740
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#677 CD 123.2 CHESTER N.Y. PAT JAN 25TH 1870. Rich aqua.
This style insulator was introduced in late 1871 or very early 1872. Advertisements (shown in third photo) for this insulator design appeared for over 1-1/2 years in The Telegrapher, a trade paper devoted to the telegraph industry during the 1860’s and 1870’s. The ads were placed by Charles T. Chester, 104 Centre Street, New York, a telegraph supply company.
A patented iron ring, with three points was fitted over the insulator, supposedly creating better insulating properties due to less surface area in contact with the insulator (see fourth photo). The “wavy groove” CD 158.1 “Chester Boston” also used the same type iron device.
A handful of CD 123.2 were reportedly found on a communication line along a railroad in the Adirondack Region of New York State decades ago. Three more have surfaced further south, in the Kingston, N.Y. area, in recent years. One of perhaps a dozen known.
Well defined embossing.
Please note there is no actual damage at all to the insulator from use or abuse! At first glance, the light and dark areas on the right portion of the insulator might appear as an internal fracture in the photo. Not the case! Actually, this insulator pressed against another insulator while being annealed in the lehr at the time of production in the glass factory. The vertical dark line from the wire groove upward, is a narrow area of excess glass which was pulled away from the other insulator. This excess glass is very thin, protruding ever so slightly away from the dome of this insulator. Below the wire groove, there's a fingernail size, shallow area where glass was pulled away from this insulator, likely adhered to the other insulator it came in contact with.
The dark vertical line below the "Chester" embossing, and another diagonal dark line above the embossing are simply folds or creases on the interior glass surface, and in no way damaged. If not for the factory produced lehr kiss, this item would be rated very, very near mint!