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#3240 CD 162 H.G. CO. Smooth base Bright peacock blue 
- Sold Winning Bid: $2,300.00
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- Lot # 3240
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#3240 CD 162 H.G. CO. PETTICOAT. Bright peacock blue.
Smooth base.
Patent dated CD 162 HG Co, signals with drip points in peacock blue coloration are reasonably available in the hobby. However, the older, smooth base units are seldom offered for sale. Of the few known, some have been discovered in the St. Louis area. The ratio of the smooth base type to those with drip points to is likely one to perhaps 40 or 50 or more.
It seems probable that older insulators manufactured in exotic colors were likely the result of using extra glass initially intended for other products that required specific colors. In later years, perhaps starting in the late 1880's or early 1890's and continuing for decades, utility companies used specially colored insulators to mark specific lines, including designation of differing voltages. During that period, the Hemingray Glass Company widely promoted specially colored insulators, as evidenced in the second image, which is a copy from a page in the 1910 Electric Appliance Company catalogue.
The inner skirt and base (which are typically prone to damage) both remain in excellent condition! Very shallow, clean flake on lower portion of the wire ridge is pinkie nail size. A slightly smaller, shallow flake just below the wire groove. Both are thin, and are not very noticeable.
Bright, well saturated glass in this scarce jewel!