Super Rare Threadless British Corkscrew!! Sold

By Caleb Thimell; posted October 14, 2005

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I've decided to move back to Oregon! So to raise necessary funds I'm offering a totally unique salt glazed corkscrew porcelain insulator from England. There are two white threaded porcelain pieces in this style that are in Elton Gish & Marilyn Albers collection. This is the only one known in this beautiful salt glaze and without threads!

This piece dates to the mid to late 1870s and was likely used on an early telegraph line in England. It was purchased by a collector at an antique store in the midwest back in the late 1960s when Americans were first getting excited about collecting insulators. The only British porcelain corkscrew insulators known prior to this discovery were the two threaded white glazed versions which came directly out of the collection of Keith Neal- the world's first insulator collector who began collecting in the early 1920s as a young boy in England. He never saw a salt glazed threadless version of one of these all those years of searching for them! Don't let this rare opportunity get away! This will complement any serious porcelain insulator collector or even corkscrew specialists. And it ought to be tops on any serious threadless specialist!

So, since this is not an auction forum and I don't really care much for buyers and sellers premiums, let's offer it now to the first email for the very reasonable price for such a scarce and historical insulator of $1450 postpaid. I offer complete satisfaction on all of my items and expertly package them. I believe its worth much more and its okay with me if you want to buy it for resale on one of the trendy catalog sales out there. But I think after seeing it up close you won't want to let it go anywhere. This insulator is in VVNM condition with only a teeny fleabite detected on the spiral groove.

Thanks Robin, I know you will enjoy it!

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