Look what my daughter found Part 1, Pic 1 !!

By Colin Jung; posted June 27, 2013

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Found at a local estate sale that had a few insulators. The rest were very common except for this one. M-2796 Fred Locke gutter top with porcelain skirt and probably the 6-2 marking, VNM condition with a little flaking on the bottom of the plate, sulfur cement, large incused "1" or "7" or malformed "T" on the plate bottom. My daughter picked this one up about one minute before an antique dealer who sells insulators spotted it. He tried to persuade her to put it down, but she saved it for Dad. ;-) What a shocker; you never, ever see stuff like this around here. Picture of bottom [id=376926496]

Paul Greaves has reported a broken gutter top with identical markings and glaze color from the Nicolaus, CA Dump Find. That dump was a repository of broken insulators from the Bay Counties Power Company transmission line that extended from the early Colgate Powerhouse to Oakland, CA.

Update: My daughter sold this historic insulator to a porcelain collector 9/2013.

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