California Color Guidance: Confounding Light Yellow Green

By Colin Jung; posted October 3, 2018

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With apologies to Brookfield and Star insulator collectors, this is what California specialists call "Light Yellow Green". Pictured from left to right are: a CD 161, CD 162, CD 166, and currently unlisted CD 152 and CD 114. This is a puzzling California glass color. The more common CD 161 and CD 162 look more yellowish in natural lighting, but any backlighting will wash out the yellowish tones you saw in sunlight and it looks more pale green.

The CD 166 matches up well in this line up and as been known in the hobby as the "Light Yellow Olive Green". This is the way it was explained to me by my California mentors, but I never saw any olive color in this light color CD 166. I purchased a light yellow olive green Cal CD 166 at the Cayucos Show, so I feel confident there is both a light yellow green and light yellow olive green in at least the CD 166's.

The CD 152 and CD 114 I got through purchase and trade and are the only ones I know of, but I am sure there are more out there. There is a listing for a light yellow green baby signal CD 160 that I just saw at the 2021 Springfield Show. Based on a survey of my collection, I suspect there should be this color in the C.G.I.Co. pony CD 102, CD 145, CD 260, and CD 1131, but they have not turn up yet. So if you have one or think you have one, I am all ears. Also could use a better example of the light yellow green Cal baby signal.

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