Let me start out by saying that buying two large (Over 100 insulators) collections within three days is unprecedented for me, and probably most people! These two collections have boosted my total collection to right around 1400 +/- insulators. I went up to Lakeland, FL today...Picked up 330 insulators. They are dirty as hell. They were found buried in the ground underneath one of those plastic kiddy pools. I bought them off the grandson of the guy who buried them. The collection was in Alabama, and they just hauled them down here last month. Now comes the part of cleaning up everything! About 75% of the porcelain is really old, the majority will be up for sale soon, so keep an eye out! This collection was 200 glass and 130 porcelain. There were a few nice glass ones that I didn't have, and a few unique ones that will be up for sale as well, and also a handful that were badly damaged from water getting in and freezing while in the ground. In a lot of the insulators, there is dirt, roots, snails, rocks, etc inside the pinhole. I guess these were buried for a number of years. The guy who collected them was really into it, and he went all over searching for them. When his wife decided she didn't want them in the house, he thought it would be a good idea to bury them in the back yard! He passed away a few years ago, and finally the wife passed away just a few months back, and the kids and grandkids went up there and unburied them. The only things I left behind was a large string of suspensions and a three part multi. He thought he would be able to sell them, but I have a feeling he won't get what he wants for them, and I'll end up having to make a trip back up there to get them from him. The multi is a good foot and a half tall, with a two foot pin sticking out of it! This pic shows the majority of the collection. All of the porcelain is in the second layer below the glass.