A Handbook for the Recognition & Identification of
FAKE, ALTERED, and REPAIRED INSULATORS

APPENDIX 1

Index of Known (or Suspected) Altered Colors of Insulators

• Yellow California's (CD 102,112, 121, 133, 152,161,162, 208, & 260)
• Dark Purple California's (CD 152,160, & 161)
• Dark Purple Postal (CD 145)
• Yellow Postal (CD 145)
• Sapphire Blue Postal (CD 145)
• Carnival Hemingray's (CD 137, 154, 162, 164, 168, 218, 230, 232, 251, 252, & 257)
• Carnival Pyrex (CD 128, 233, 234, 235 & 320)
• Amber Hemingray's (CD 106, 115, 128 & 155)
• Purple Maydwell's (CD 106, 115, 122, 154, 160, 162, 164)
• Purple McLaughlin's (CD 106, 115, 121,122, 162, 164)
• Burgundy Denver's (WFG, WGM, Good) (CD 106, 121,134, 162)
• Amber Pyrex (CD 128 & 235)
• Amber Whitall Tatum's & Armstrong's (CD 115, 122, 128, 154), most root beers are OK.
• Sapphire Blue Stars (CD 162)
• Cornflower Lynchburg (CD 252)
• Straw WGM (CD 145)

Additional information about altered insulators and their colors can be found at the NIA web site.

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