Yard Sale Finds

By Steven Bahre Jr.; posted January 22, 2011
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Well, I guess I can kind of call these yard sale finds. I saw an ad for a yard sale that mentioned insulators. Rarely does a garage sale ad include a number, but this time it did. The guy explained to me that he had a few for sale, but he had some others that he wanted to save, but would probably sell since I'm a collector. I drove the hour drive to go see him, and it turns out he is an old collector who was very active back in the 80's and 90's and was even a member of Dixie Jewels Ins. Club. I bought a bunch from him, and he was nice enough to give me first shot at everything even though there was an antique dealer there looking over my shoulders waiting to snap up everything I didn't want. Needless to say, I took as much as I could, since it will all hold a very nice spot in my collection.

Here's some more odds-n-ends I picked up at the same place. The two porcelain pieces with the wires coming out were used on transformers, there's a couple of porcelain pintypes on a double bracket, a neat old tramp on an interesting bracket, and one of those mica/composite cables.

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