This light blue glass insulator standing 3 – 1/2 inches tall by 2 – 3/8 inches diameter embossed on the base rim: N. E. TEL. & TEL. Co., consolidated design number CD 102.4, was the only whole example of this very scarce pony style insulator excavated at the site of the Lyndeborough Glass factory c1866 – 1886 located on Glass Factory Road in Lyndeborough village New Hampshire, during June 2010 by Mark Newton of Milford, New Hampshire. This dig was conducted in a specific area just to the right of where the main glass house stood with land owner permission and was completed in about 2-3 weeks.

Mark advised that there was one other example in green that appeared whole as it rolled down the dirt pile from the excavator bucket until it bumped a rock and broke-off a sizeable skirt wedge. That example was restored/glued and sold to a private collector shortly thereafter.

Mark and I became friends after a chance meet at the Lyndeborough glass factory site during the early summer of 2009. It was at that time when Mark had been hand digging and scraping an area along the edge of the glass works site near a swamp where he hit a pocket of CD 102.4, CD 145 American Insulator Co, and CD 134 Lyndeborough shards including some fragments of the previously unknown CD 158.6 LEWIS PATENT. We exchanged information and the rest is history.

A substantial number of shards, one whole example, and numerous broken specimens of the CD 102.4 (base embossed N. E. TEL. & TEL. Co.), a greater amount of shards and approximately two dozen whole deformed examples of the CD 134 (nicknamed Lyndeborough 134), a smaller number of shards and a single broken example of the CD 105, a substantial number of shards and broken examples of the CD 145 (base embossed AMERICAN INSULATOR Co) and a small number of shards, a few near whole, and a dozen or so broken examples of the previously unknown and newly assigned consolidated design number CD 158.6 (skirt embossed SLATER LEWIS PATENT), were unearthed by Mark and the excavator operator.

Mark and I negotiated a deal in early May of this year, 2022, and I am now the new custodian of the aforementioned Lyndeborough glass works dug illusive CD 102.4 with notarized letter of provenance and a celluloid New Eng Tel & Tel advertisement tag which was also unearthed in the same bucket as the CD 102.4 ~ WHAT A FIND!!!!

NOTE: The story of that Lyndeborough, NH, glass factory site dig was published in "Antique Bottle & Glass Collector" magazine - Oct, 2011 with the aforementioned CD 102.4 pictured front center on page 9 in that article.