On March 26th, 2016 I revisited a spot with an ongoing reclamation of an early Grand Trunk Railway line underway. An early barn had at one point stood near the old line at this location and the heavy equipment had moved a large portion of the old foundation into a big pile along the former right of way. A number of early bottles and a single insulator were mixed in with the rocks, probably having been dumped near the foundation of the old barn the better part of a century before.

Nearly every single bottle was smashed to pieces... but amazingly a few common ones remain unscathed. I was happy to find the insulator in nearly mint condition as well: a nice salt-glazed dinosaur egg U-1132a. Denby, England-made c. the 1880s for the GNW Tel Co.

It's amazing that this one survived unharmed!