I really wanted to keep this for my own collection, but living in an apartment,2 young children,2 china cabinets full of insulators and no other display room left me very few options. This is a Hemingray No 12 patent date that is very well buried in the heart of a cherry tree. This insulator is in the heartwood, not the outer wood of this tree meaning the tree was quite large and the insulator was grown over with around 6 or more inches of outer wood. Who ever split this piece had split the outer wood away revealing the insulator inside. The insulator is still attached to the original oaken sidepin and the original nails are still present too! This insulator is a stamped embossing so it is no earlier than 1901,no later than 1910 and was nailed on the tree when it was young, you can still see the original bark underneath the pin and see the wood layers as it grew outward surrounding the insulator and pin. This is a rare phenomenon in nature which very rarely is found in this day and age as very few trees that had insulators nailed to them are still standing. Certainly one of the MOST unique and rustic insulator displays you can have in your collection. This entire piece weighs about 10-13 pounds alone and the piece of wood itself is about 5" thick or more. Many more pix on request. First mail to me.... $310 shipped in USA, Canada and other countries, I will assist with some of the shipping costs as it is heavy and will undoubtedly cost more.