I bought this set in 2000 and now it's time to find a new home. The original description from the seller:

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Here is a combination that you don't see often. A Thomas "Liberty bell" insulator, a copper fog bowl, and a wooden pin.

The insulator is: about 4" tall, 5" across, brown, glazed, and has THOMAS embossed at the top next to the wire groove. It is in good condition with no chips or cracks.

The fog bowl is: about 1/2 the thickness of a dime, 6 1/4" across, 2 3/4" tall and is covered with a green patina. It has a 1 1/2" hole in the bottom to accept a wooden pin. It also has a 1/4" hole offset in the bottom to divert water (condensed fog) away from electrical components and on to the ground.

The wood pin is a mess. It's old and cracked. I will send along a new pin with this set.

This set came from a pole, that was set in the Belmont Shores area of Long Beach, Ca. in 1935. the pole was removed this year, 2000.

Fog bowls were generally found in beach areas, where "salt fog" is a problem. This was the 1930's answer to the problem.

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The original wood pin was totally rotten and is gone and I don't find a new straight wood pin fits very well (the flange is too small and it just slips through the base opening in the bowl and doesn't clamp it down); the pics I've seen show a steel pin with a wood cob, presumably with a wider flange, for example [id=56244312].

There's also a picture of one of these sets in CJOW, November 1980, page 24, with caption "Photo at the right is of a Locke U-418 and copper fog shroud (via Robert Chiantelli of Monterey, Calif.). Photo below shows a number of different fog bowls, all from the California coastal areas, and all in the collection of Richard A. Peterson of Sacramento."

$60 plus postage from 96097