These were actually what prompted my Dad n' I to further explore this stretch of line in the first place. After finding the padlock in the field, we started to see more on the poles than the H.K. Porter plastic bells that were on the first poles, and more beehives and hemi-42's. All of a sudden, there was a crossarm jutting out over the edge of the field which had a half dozen of these on it. We climbed on the way back and grabbed as many as we could. We also found a bunch more on some other poles, too. There were (and still are, for that matter) two different types of these, one with an upper wire ridge which juts out farther than the lower one, has a darker glaze, and appears to be of dry process manufacture, as it shows a heavy mold line (these are like the one on the left). The second type is like the one on the right, these are thinner overall, and have more malformations, and a much nicer glaze. This particular one (My favourite), has 2 very nice main impurities. The first looks as though someone just threw a glob of excess porcelain (maybe a good way to get rid of clay left over from an earlier batch) onto the side and then fired it, and then glazed it so that a big oddly shaped piece of porcelain sticking out the side. The second malformation looks like someone accidentally broke the porcelain and then glued the pieces back together before firing and glazing it that way! Regardless, every one seems to be different and fascinating in it's own, crude way. Can anybody tell me anything about these? Value? U-#? American or Canadian? Manufacturer? How old they are? Please?