Here's an oddball piece - a wood working tool likely dating to the turn of the century or so, designed for threading wooden dowels. As you can see, it has a threaded hole at its centre with a thread-cutting metal blade embedded within. Two standard screws could be removed to change out or adjust the blade. Some collectors have speculated that some of these might have been used for threading insulator pins at one point. While I don't believe that is the case, or at least not in the case of most examples of these, it is an interesting thought and sort of makes these a bit of a distant "go with" for the insulator collection. This example measures 9 1/4" from one end to the other. It has a 1" hole, and would probably effectively thread a 7/8" dowel. A 1" modern telegraph pin is very snug in the hole, and won't thread all the way in because of its taper.

Condition-wise this looks like a well-worn wood working tool: some worm holes in the wood and high point wear at the edges and corners. It still has a lacquered finish and is a nice golden brown wood tone. It looks great!

I'm now asking $60 USD INCLUDING SHIPPING within Canada or the lower 48 US states for this piece. I'll leave it up to your imagination whether it was ever for threading insulator pins or not. I'm always happy to trade for early Canadian glass or Canadian-made porcelain insulators. I have a long-standing want list of Canadian-made porcelain posted, [id=505519866; please click here to see it]. I accept PayPal, or personal cheque from any member of ICON or any collector with whom I have dealt before. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or for more photos, and look through my other items or unsold sales stock to combine shipping on items.