OGLEBAY NORTON CO.

The Lore of the Lakes illustration is difficult to read: the band is taken as red but looks orange against the brown background. Rosanoski suspects the intended colours are those of C1029.

Lighter images and ship photographs document the Columbia star-and-C markings. A black appearance can conceal a purple-brown or dark-maroon ground, and some reproductions have been lightened to make that hue visible. Altfeltis’s hand-painted 1965 Edmund Fitzgerald lighter is offered as strong colour evidence; photographs nevertheless differ in the star’s size and position within the band. C1030 is supported by several vessel photographs. Sylvania shows a white C attached to the star, whose top touches the band’s upper edge while leaving space below, combining features of C1029 and C1030. Lighting also affects the apparent base colour.

The white swallowtail has a broad black border. A small slanted black rectangle at the centre carries an equally slanted red four-pointed star, with a white central disc bearing interwoven black O and N.

The Columbia star and C were removed in 1994 while the vessel colours remained; the new offset-compass trademark was added in 1995. Courtney Burton photographs document the funnel on both sides. Middletown’s partly obscured flag in September 2002 appears tapered, but its border colour is unclear; the source notes a change to black in 2003.