We drove 2 hours north yesterday to attend an auction that had some insulators pictured in the listing. It turns out there were a lot of insulator, but there were also other people bidding on them and I wasn't willing to go into the hundreds of dollars for boxes of wrapped insulators but it turns out I should have. I don't know who the one person was who won one of the boxes, but another Pittsburgh collector got a box that I gave up on at $110 and it had probably $400-$500 worth of insulators in it. And the people there told us that they auctioned off hundreds of insulators on Wednesday that were going for $25 a box. Oh well.

Anyway, nice assortment here, what I think is a U-356, definitely dry-process, really pretty tan with sea-foam green overtones, two U-179s (not marked), one a great blonde color, I bought the gingerbread man from the other Pittsburgh collector who doesn't collect foreign pieces, a white spool, a dry process CPR, a Thomas U-388, nice Cutter, U-159 or 160 (not sure), U-172, LAPP U-322, U-798 (I think) with an RFI coating, U-682 (I think) very attractive mottled brown glaze with an "8" stamped on the skirt, no other markings, and a KNOX U-665.