Those great ol' Slope Shoulders!
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:46 pmHello to all!
While I haven't really had much time to chime on here as often as I'd like, I have been following all the activity. There have been some great posts! I have been hoping to contribute a few more, so here's my first post in a long while!
The CD-133.2 slope shoulder is not a style that turns up too often in really any part of Canada. Even where they were used the most, these seem to only turn up in moderate numbers. Personally, I have found even the remains from no more than a half dozen examples in my 10 years of collecting and hunting. Apparently the London area is not exactly a hot spot for the style, but a recent find which Kyle and I were lucky enough to partake in opened my eyes to the presence of some very nice examples having been used none to far from home!
Kyle and I were both fortunate enough to know a particularly nice older fellow from the London area through a small, S.W. Ontario antique bottle collecting club. This fellow is the classic older antique collector - the guys who really have an appreciation for everything and anything, not like us young whipper-snappers that collect a hundred bajillion of one thing and eventually run out of room to keep them all. This guy had some of everything, and most of it relevant from a local history point of view. Unfortunately this fellow passed away last year. A member of our club and a friend of the family was entrusted with the collection in exchange for a cash sum, and was soon underway dividing up and selling its contents. Kyle and I were among the first individuals to be invited to see the collection, and make an offer on anything we were interested in.
When we first walked into the door of the shed containing the majority of the collection, I was immediately excited at seeing a reasonable number of purple telephone styles, a carnival pyrex 235, and a few other mid price-range Canadian pieces. It's funny, because most of the insulators in the collection were boxed up, and I am sure the owner had no idea of which ones were significant with the exception of the purple and carnival glass examples. Sitting on the floor adjacent to some SDP Brookfield 102s, Dominion 42s, and a couple porcelain pieces was the piece in the attached photo. Suffice it to say that I was absolutely floored to have the chance to add such a fantastic piece to the collection, so that is exactly what I did. A price was agreed upon for all the insulators in the collection, and before long I was packing up the few dozen insulators along with a few other pieces that Kyle or I had had our eyes on.
The key insulator from the collection is a doozy. The piece is a very dark and extremely vibrant shade of yellow green. Certainly not a piece I ever expected to turn up, and a very rare colouration for this style.
If anyone has any other especially nifty CD-133.2 Unembossed Canadian slope shoulders to show, please post them in this thread! Hopefully we can arrange for a nearly complete spectrum of various rare coloured Canadian slope shoulders!
All the best, and as always - thanks for listening.
While I haven't really had much time to chime on here as often as I'd like, I have been following all the activity. There have been some great posts! I have been hoping to contribute a few more, so here's my first post in a long while!
The CD-133.2 slope shoulder is not a style that turns up too often in really any part of Canada. Even where they were used the most, these seem to only turn up in moderate numbers. Personally, I have found even the remains from no more than a half dozen examples in my 10 years of collecting and hunting. Apparently the London area is not exactly a hot spot for the style, but a recent find which Kyle and I were lucky enough to partake in opened my eyes to the presence of some very nice examples having been used none to far from home!
Kyle and I were both fortunate enough to know a particularly nice older fellow from the London area through a small, S.W. Ontario antique bottle collecting club. This fellow is the classic older antique collector - the guys who really have an appreciation for everything and anything, not like us young whipper-snappers that collect a hundred bajillion of one thing and eventually run out of room to keep them all. This guy had some of everything, and most of it relevant from a local history point of view. Unfortunately this fellow passed away last year. A member of our club and a friend of the family was entrusted with the collection in exchange for a cash sum, and was soon underway dividing up and selling its contents. Kyle and I were among the first individuals to be invited to see the collection, and make an offer on anything we were interested in.
When we first walked into the door of the shed containing the majority of the collection, I was immediately excited at seeing a reasonable number of purple telephone styles, a carnival pyrex 235, and a few other mid price-range Canadian pieces. It's funny, because most of the insulators in the collection were boxed up, and I am sure the owner had no idea of which ones were significant with the exception of the purple and carnival glass examples. Sitting on the floor adjacent to some SDP Brookfield 102s, Dominion 42s, and a couple porcelain pieces was the piece in the attached photo. Suffice it to say that I was absolutely floored to have the chance to add such a fantastic piece to the collection, so that is exactly what I did. A price was agreed upon for all the insulators in the collection, and before long I was packing up the few dozen insulators along with a few other pieces that Kyle or I had had our eyes on.
The key insulator from the collection is a doozy. The piece is a very dark and extremely vibrant shade of yellow green. Certainly not a piece I ever expected to turn up, and a very rare colouration for this style.
If anyone has any other especially nifty CD-133.2 Unembossed Canadian slope shoulders to show, please post them in this thread! Hopefully we can arrange for a nearly complete spectrum of various rare coloured Canadian slope shoulders!
All the best, and as always - thanks for listening.
Here is a flawless blue entry just loaded with inclusions. A nice pollywog swimming, thru pot stones, amber wisps, milk wisps and lots of seed bubbles, towards a nice big bubble in the skirt. Pales in comparison to some of Craig's tho. Some really nice pieces here. Be a really interesting cd to collect.