I am going to start a series of weekly posts on some oddball California glass colors, providing as much background information as I have and posing some questions in hopes of generating some new information that I can add to my miniscule knowledge base. I will post across several collector media platforms and cross-fertilize the information as it becomes available. It will be titled: Curious California Colors. I will start off with the Smokey Yellow color which is depicted in the attached photo in the beehive insulator on the left. It is posed against a yellow shade Cal beehive in the middle and a citrine color on the right. There are many shades of yellow in California glass. I dare say as many yellow shades as there are shades of purple, but this is the only example I have of a smokey yellow color. It was recently found in a second generation collection in Long Beach, CA. Covered in an environmental haze/coating, I could not tell the color until I cleaned it up. The color is listed in the price guide, but only under the POSTAL beehive section, which makes sense as CALIFORNIA and California-made POSTAL beehives were made from the same batch glass. Does anyone in this group have the smokey yellow POSTAL beehive and is it the same color? Does anyone else have an example of this Cal glass color in a different CD? The Cal crosstops, CD 208, tend to be smokey in tone and pretty weak..ss in their colors. Are the yellow Cal crosstops similar in color to my smokey yellow beehive example?