from Colombia containing these beauties. All the same basic style, and each so different from the other. They are crude, crude, crude. It would seem these were made by hand using the most basic of means. Those are not chips in the white on the right, but holes in the insulator. Partially filled in holes as the unit turned on the wheel, but still open when the clear glaze was glopped on both the outside and the inside of the insulator. Then the sticky glaze picked up some white sand particles on the firing ring. The 2 white pieces are quite different, and you can see where the profiles of all 5 vary considerably. Also, while the coloured glaze does not cover everything, the clear glaze does, even to the top of the pinhole

And the really neat part of the story. These insulators were supposedly found in the basement of the old Zicme Insulator Factory. What were porcelain insulators doing in a glassmaking company that made glass insulators??? I will be pursuing this story to see if I can verify it, but that is the word I have at the moment. I will try to find out; found by who[m], when, and what other insulators were discovered at the time.

I'll post a couple more pictures trying to show some of the unique details.