Brookfield Glass Corporation

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I have a aqua blue Brookfield with a flat base, it says XO on the leading, I can not find this described anyplace or come across out if it is worth anything. The following is the one and ONLY reference I could locate that indicated Long Island Flint Glass Works was the very same as “Bushwick”. I think that is a piece of misinformation published by a writer for Commoner and Glassworker magazine who didn’t comprehend the exact situations. Had been all of the CD 259s that are only embossed Cable made by Brookfield? I know that Oakman also manufactured them but they have the Oakman embossing.
In 1921, production had stopped at the Old Bridge plant and the company dissolved. Most of the colour is in a few of the styles, specifically in the signal insulators that carried railroad signals. Otherwise, they didn’t attempt to make insulators in colors for the reason that it didn’t matter. In this interview Ian Macky describes the origins, sorts, shapes and colors of collectible antique glass insulators. Based in Yreka, California, Macky can be reached via his web-site, Glassian, which is a member of our Hall of Fame.

Cd 134 Brookfield No 41


These insulators do have roll and cold pour marks as were incredibly typical at that time but are totally free from major post manufacturing damage. Glass insulators after adorned the tops of just about every telephone and telegraph pole in the nation! Most were green, as this is the least cheap to manufacture. The wooden dowel would be inserted in the pole cross bar and the insulator then screwed on in preparation for the telephone, telegraph, or electric wire.


  • In 1864, Martin Kalbfleisch, the owner of Bushwick Chemical Performs, built the factory to make demijohns made use of for storing acid produced at his factory.

  • There had been plants all more than the location, transportation and fuel were a large aspect.

  • (I assume you are spelling the name correctly?).

  • You’d get a handful of fancy colors since some glasshouse did a fancy batch of cranberry glass or produced some colored glassware and had some left more than so they pressed a couple of insulators with it.


The molds had been engraved so the letters were dug in. As the years went on, there were fewer engravers offered and the embossing began finding simpler and simpler. Another preferred manufacturer was Brookfield in New York. On the West Coast the only persons generating insulators have been EC & M around the 1880s, which is quite early. They created a seriously crude, undesirable insulator, but you didn’t have to ship it from the East.

! Vintage Antique Glass Insulators Hemingray 12, 20, 16,19,brookfield


You’d get a couple of fancy colors for the reason that some glasshouse did a fancy batch of cranberry glass or created some colored glassware and had some left more than so they pressed a couple of insulators with it. https://www.pcb.its.dot.gov/PageRedirect.aspx?redirectedurl=https://umek.pro/products/shs of the glass homes didn’t make only insulators, they’d make all types of glassware. If they had an order for a complete bunch of Cobalt blue candle holders and they had glass left more than, they weren’t going to waste it so they would place it towards a different glass item, occasionally insulators. This insulator will make a fine addition to your collection. The lovely Green-Aqua hues will make a beautiful paperweight, desk, bedside/pendant lamp or just an elegant display piece. Photos are from our library and represent the make model and color you will obtain.

Antique W Brookfield #11 Jan 25, 1870 Clear Glass Insulator


Brookfield Glass Corporation two-piece transposition insulator. Both insulators embossed "A. T. & T. CO." Made for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. “Scales” https://www.boredpanda.com/community/henningseneriksen311/ utilized on containers created for McKesson & Robbins.