The best of 2009. A porcelain pintype from Ireland. A U-2421 with an unrecorded CP TP underglaze inkstamp. Various CP inkstamps on suspensions. The suspension shown is made by CEGELEC.

One of the largest manufacturers of French incandescent lamps and electric supplies of all kinds, insulators, etc. CGE was founded by Pierre Azaria (1865-1953) who was born in Cairo, Egypt and lived and was educated in France. In 1898 he set up the Compagnie Generale d'Electricite that became an empire. In 1904 CGE started manufacturing porcelain insulators at the Ivry-Port (Paris) site (1910 catalog substantiates this info). Their main competitor was Parvillee et Freres et Cie, the French pocelain insulator giant as well as insulator manufacturers in Germany. In 1913, CGE had an electrical enginneering branch that became an independent company (CGEE) Compagnie Generale d'Entreprises Electriques, which later became CEGELEC. CGE later became Alcatel Alsthom. (Source from Lis Bergman: Alcatel Alsthom "The History of Compagnie Generale d'Electricite".