Having had very few discoveries lately, despite repeated efforts, I was very pleased to come across this while scrounging around a local bottle dump on a VERY cold day. It seems this once served faithfully as a dead end pole for the farm house nearby, but sometime in the past 50 years has been taken down and simply discarded in close proximity to the farm dump in a ravine close by. The pole has also been burnt to some degree. Maybe this is the reason it had to be taken down? A little bit of charring is visible on the far left of the picture.

There were no intact pintypes nearby. The only such insulator I found was a badly broken Ohio Brass unipart in the characteristic crude glaze colour. The pole's construction consisted of 3 crossarms, two braced together at the top (ad visible), and the third a slight distance down the pole. Each arm had 4 pins in it, and 2 sidepins were still attached a distance down the pole. A 3-part spool bracket was installed on one side, and grounding wires once ran down the length of the pole.

I was especially surprised and happy, to realize that, although it did not have any pintypes, it did have one of those lovely [id=136838484; medium blue wet-process strains] on it. Now I can add one to the collection which I actually found myself!