I found this beside my neighbors barn last Summer underneath an old bucket. (looking for snakes) It looks too shiny to me, to be old. I found those body styles on the internet, but nothing informative. Any suggestions? Is there a really good website that has this kind of info?
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Does anybody know about porcelain insulators?
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The brown glazed porcelain insulators are of the more modern/common type.
A bit of history about the Locke insulators
Porcelain insulators have not received the same level of interest as glass over the past 20 years of collecting. However they are equally historically significant and available in as many colors and significantly more styles.
https://www.insulators.info/
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Thanks Olden! yes the older insulators are glass have lead and turn color still modern but pre WW2 but still late 1800's early 1900'sLook to the ground for it holds the past!
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Originally posted by Kentucky point View PostI found this beside my neighbors barn last Summer underneath an old bucket. (looking for snakes) It looks too shiny to me, to be old.
These were generally used for power insulators.
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nice insulator. Great information shared by all.TN formerly CT Visit our store http://stores.arrowheads.com/store.p...m-Trading-Post
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Now these I know for sure were from the 1890s. They were found on the decaying remains of a telephone post near Berkeley Springs West Virginia. They are from the old F. M. Locke company in Victor N . Y. according to the stamp. I can't find too much on these either, but I am sure of their age. The green one? Found twenty feet away from the others. I don't know much about this one either.
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Ethan , they are making a come back with designers . People are making some pricey light fixtures and lamps out of them .
Get to work and that will buy you a new somthing for all your hobbies .2 Photos
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This is a view of an old telephone pole in Portsmouth Ohio, located about 25 miles from my house. The town is covered with hundreds of these insulators next to the tracks. Granted, it is illegal to knock them off of the poles, it is still fun just to look at them in there natural habitat. To make this sound weird, I used google street view to scan the railroad bed, and guess what? I found one laying in the ballast.
*Note. I do not condone trespassing on railroad property to get insulators or anything else for that matter. It is illegal, and unsafe."The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert E. Lee
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Kentucky Point, I have over a hundred glass insulators at the moment and could certainly pass a few along if you are building a collection. I like the colored glass and they keep following me home. An old friend brought me more yesterday... much to my wife's dismay. I am not interested in selling them but perhaps a potlatch or powwow is in order.
PM me if you are interested in some of them. I am in the Dayton/Xenia area of Ohio so we're not too far apart.
Good luck out there, fldwlkrHeadwaters of the Little Miami, Ohio
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I have plenty of them around here, we just haven't went yet. Feel free to post them here if you like, because I am looking for examples. If you have any color besides aqua or clear, then I would consider it, because the others are so common, lol! Thank you very much for the offer.
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I was walking through a creek and found a cobalt blue porcelain insulator piece. That was heartbreaking!
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