York, ME 1908 Early New Eng. Tel & Tel Co. Subscriber Pole

By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted June 30, 2014

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Click onto "View Original" and you will see faint stenciling on the lower crossarm (on its left) that has New Eng. Tel & Tel Co. lettering. The insulators surely look like CD 104s. The crossarms were held in place via lag screws and not through-bolts. This was common practice for New Eng. Tel. & Tel. Co. from the 1880s through around 1910. After that time 10-pin crossarms were typically used with through-bolts affixing the company's arms to their poles.

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