I see why so many people are fascinated by British porcelain! See the Collector's Album for more pictures of other European porcelain.

Today I got this small indoor (!) t-bar. It's 45 millimeters tall with a base dia of 40. The hole should be for a long screw to be fixed on wood (I never saw one of these in use).

bottom wiew of the same insulator

Here are some other recent pieces I've received in trades; all of them have scarcer under-glaze ink markings in varying shades of green. Enjoy! Thank you Mark, Wim and Rich!

The two fuse holders here were acquired in a recent trade and are quite stunning compared to the other pieces of foreign porcelain I have so far. They are the most interesting styles of porcelain I have seen other than ...

Comparison with L'Electro verre 45 and Folembray 235

Never see this French insulator before..For me it's one unknow insulator if you have some idea for this production, welcome ! ;) This insulator measure : 14cms and 10cms diameter ( 5.1/2 X 4 )

French hook insulator (circa 1855) The bell, in porcelain, is extended with two arms, each one with a hole. They are used to fix the bell on the pole with two woodscrews. The back part is rounded in accordance with the ...

Chilean CD 155 style porcelain in the air

Porcelain and glass insulators from abandoned lines in Pontedera town. Another successful hunt

Some old porcelains coming from one of the many hunts I did with my friend Marco in Tuscany. Some of them date early ...

Just arrived, a parcel with a large bell porcelain by VERBANO, another large bell type FIDENZA N°223, and a RICHARD GINORI weitschirm dating may 1931. All this thanx to my friend Christian

Typical and ironic, as the porcelain insulators on the building are not carrying any wires!

some insulators from this weekend in Pontedera, near Pisa: also two bushing insulators by RICHARD GINORI, a porcelain in German style, and a glass 2/1920 embossed star DI.W.S.

... lead. This is one of the rarest italian porcelains ...

Just arriving from Italy to add to my collection is this fairly scarce brown porcelain 3Um. This is the smallest of the Um family with the 1Um being the largest. The brown color makes this a very scarce ...

Here shown the oldest and the latest version of the 1Um low red stripe insulator: between these two insulators there's something like half a century! the right insulator is also ink marked RICHARD GINORI on top, and ...

This is a good portion of the foreign-yeah, I see those O-B pin types up top, porcelain insulators that composed a portion of a collection I purchased a month ago. The process of boxing up the collection had already ...

A little overkill here on an electrified fence in the province of East Flanders, Belgium.

... the Light Olive glass and the other porcelains, they are "Russian", the Polish type triple-grooves too ...

I just added this fantastic light brown color Richard Ginori Porcelain Insulator to my collection. This is a unipart and is dated from 1934. The hieght is about 4" (100mm) and the width is about 7" ( ...

Here is a small white porcelain insulator produced by IMEC during the 60's & 70's. The B85R means that the height is 85mm and the outer shell is reinforced since there is no inner shirt . The outer shell thickness ...

The "OWLS" [previous picture] have left the Insulator Field, but in their place are 5 interesting Dutch pieces that I had never seen before. The mama OWL is conventionally threaded, whereas papa OWL is ...

I recently received these insulators in a trade with a Dutch collector. My wife Bev took one look and said "those two look like owls" My response was " well yes, if you turn them upside down" but she ...

top: left to right, Ginger Mamma porcelain, gingerbread porcelain ( EST embossing), Isorex 35/1 green light, Isorex 35/1 large base variation, Isorex SNCF 35/1 bottom : rare unknow with "EST" on top, ...