by novascotiaglass » Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:37 pm
and more
1. CD 145 GNW purple. I got this from the same collection as the CD 143 tall NE Canada. I actually didn't have one in my collection already.
2. CD 143 NE Can aqua. I am not sure which mold this is. I think it is a tall variant, if not it is one of the converted threadless molds I believe. I picked this piece up from Morgan Davis at the same time I purchased the CD143 GNW. He had just picked it up in a box lot of dishes at a local auction. Pays to check out all the boxes at an auction for sure.
3. CD734 McMicking. This is my fave piece of the year, and not just because it's threadless. Dad and I went to one of the "50 mile" yard sales held annually here in NS. We started at the head of the route and hit quite a few yard sales. We then continued on and only came across a few more. We started doubting our route, which we later found out was not the right route, we had gone the wrong way. While on the "wrong route" we went into a garage sale in a small garage along the ocean. Not much of interest, a couple couches and odds and ends. As we often do Dad asked the guy "You don't have any bottles or insulators by chance?" The guy said "What was the second thing you said?" then he started chuckling. He led us into a second room in the garage where he had one insulator on a shelf, it was the McMicking. He then led us to another building where he had a porcelain GTP beehive and another common dominion. We then went back to the McMicking and he told us the story. He at one point years ago worked for the railway in BC. While working there he and a friend of his had heard about the Wire Cache and how threadless insulators were being unearthed and that they were worth money. So they went up to dig some for themselves. While digging they stuck threadless gold. The uncovered what he called a case of McMickings. I can't remember the amount they found it was either 24 or 30 of them. He kept one for himself and his friend kept one and took the rest to California to sell to a collector or collectors.
This is my fave piece of the year because of the story. This piece came straight from the digger who found it at the famous find in BC directly to me. It is a piece I will never part with. The piece has a nice bubble in it with a piece of straw/hay in the bubble. Not sure if it is from the original packing or not, but I like to think so. Sometimes wrong turns can lead to good things I guess.
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Glass Junkie....I need another fix