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Manufacturer: California
Mnfr Code: 15
Date: 1912 - 1916
Colors: Purple, Sage Green, Smoke, Yellow
Usage: Guy Wire Strain
The McDougalds' 2003 Glass Insulators Price Guide says the only known embossing is California. Average size is 3.625 inch length, 2.75 inch base diameter.
Brian Riecker's site includes photos of a Sage Green California CD 1131 and a Purple California CD 1131.
Colin Jung posted a California CD 1131 in Smoke (California CD 1131 in Smoke photo 2) from Brian Reicker's collection on Insulators.info's gallery.
The NIA's Glass Strain Insulators page says "Although all relatively uncommon, there are a variety of glass strain insulators available. These were typically used to insulate a telephone or power pole guy wire from ground."
Pyrex's Plain Facts About Insulators brochure, available at the Peninsulators site, says "Because of pressing limitations, some shapes -- guy strain insulators, for example -- are difficult to make at all."
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