Well, this came as a surprise to me. It was a warm 70 degrees out side so i figured "what better day for a hunt?" and set off to a part of the line in my backyard i hadn't hunted before. I never got around to it because it was where i was yelled at by a cop, Interesting how he happened to be there at the exact moment i was... Any way, this line has yielded many olive green hemingray-40s, Brookfields with exceptional junk, and bubbly hemingray 42s in some washed out shade of hemingray blue. Being the ignorant person i am, i only looked at one side of the tracks. I had found specimens of CD 121's on the other side of the tracks before but i had dismissed them as being thrown there by a board lineman. And the things i thought were pole stumps looked more like fence posts. (big ones at that) After finding literally nothing but a couple chunks of damaged commons and yellow H.K. porters i decided to stop the hunt and turn back about 2-3 miles from where i started. (this was way out in a place called "nowhere!!!") The large fence posts i had seen before seemed to be more common out in the "nowhere", and they also seemed to pop up in regular intervals. Also interesting they were about the same distance from each other as an old telegraph line would have been. I put down the 2 CD 152's i had found and walked my bike along the other side of the tracks. After about 5 or so minutes of contemplating what i would post here i saw a glint of aqua in the bushes. After setting my bike down i moved closer and was able to make out the shape of a 42 with massive damage to the skirt. The thought that it might be one of the CD 121'd i had found before came to thought but the busted 42 made more since. Picking my way through thorn bushes for about 10-15 minutes i could tell it wasn't a 42. It looked more like one of those odd hemingray 9's that resemble a CD 121. A hemingray 9, even a clear one, would have made all that walking and the endless plastic insulators all worth wile. Finaly i made it through the thorn bushes and removed the leaf that was covering the insulator and the words "PATENT MAY 2 1893" looked up at me. Well happy day, this one was in great condition! O sure there are some minor cracks in the base but this was the best thing that i ever found. closely inspecting it for any unseen cracks and after finding none a crept out of the bushes. A kip on an atv promptly road about 20 feet from me and gave me a very confused look. I chuckled and moved on. Interesting tie-wire on this, not sure what to all it. I had seen more insulators on this side than i had on the other side by a long shot, even if they were busted 42's. They seemed to appear in small pockets of 2-3 insulators all busted every 30 or so feet, no more of the CD 121's i was looking for. I was also lucky enough to stumble across one of the arms that once held the insulators. I had assumed that it was a 6 pin arm but it turned out to be an 8 pin arm, never seen one like that. Just 10 gangs around here. I would have kept it but it was rotting (and surprisingly sturdy due to the fact that it had been made into a fence post) This is like i said, the nicest thing i have ever found. And the 2 in the date on this insulator is odd, what did we call it again? Ah yes, the "ugly duckling 2" Also interesting is that i believe this insulator to be made in 1892 as that's when the line was installed. Enjoy,

-Bryan Lane