Telegraph insulators found in the wild

By Matthew Kancle; posted February 14, 2024

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All are pre-1900's. I had some help procuring the lighter purple crown embossed CD 133 on the left. It was on a 40 foot pole and wired in. My friend Jason Nickerson led me to a remote hillside in Nova Scotia where the dark aqua unembossed Canadian CD 126 (maybe the rarest insulator of the bunch) was laying in the moss. Eventually I'm going to start posting groups of insulators i've found over the years separated by railroads and subdivisions. I started collecting insulators from the wild very, very late. There were generations of collectors who came before me and picked amazing glass from the lines well before I started in the early 2000's. I'm still very thankful for what I have been able to find over the years!

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