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#3658 CD 128 HEMINGRAY E_14B. Fire opal. 
- Sold Winning Bid: $850.00
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- Lot # 3658
- System ID # 783420
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#3658 CD 128 HEMINGRAY_CS E_14B. Fire opalescent.
Excellent opalescent qualities with greater opaqueness than the majority of examples. More transparent than "milk glass," yet has heavy, opaque, opal qualities. Ambient light or front lighting shows a wonderful, milky opal color with blue and yellow tones. With backlighting, the glass glows with orange tones. With less direct back lighting, it turns a rich fire-orange color!!!
A highly unusual insulator produced by Owens-Illinois at the old Hemingray factory in Muncie, Indiana. The opalescent coloration was the result of the company's attempt to produce a low expansion glass to compete with Corning's Pyrex glassware.
Some of these unusually colored insulators were found at a Hemingray dumpsite decades ago. A few were found in Georgia, and most of those that saw actual usage were recovered in Florida.
Lacks much of the usual damage associated with this type insulator.
On the "Hemingray" mold half, there's a pinkie nail flake in the lower left wire groove and an adjoining shallow fingernail bruise (far left in first photo).
On the "E14B" mold half, there's a fairly inconspicuous index fingernail bruise above the wire groove, at left in second photo (see fine, dark line to left of threaded pinhole).
Highly unusual, spectacular color!