This is an old photo and I do not know exactly when this picture was taken. However there are white porcelain insulators on this line. The poles and "crossarms" appear to have been assembled from metal pipes. ...

Very similar to the Weitschirm style, this 4 shells small insulator has been described in the RICHARD GINORI catalog as a Paderno. The incuse with the classic mark RICHARD GINORI dates this porcelain 1960s. The ...

Here's a strange shield embossing on a porcelain insulator found in Chile. Can't read the letters, but there is possibly a bold N in the bottom.

A porcelain gingerbread and a no-tie slot-top. These were on the opposite side of the house with the six gingerbreads (previous pic.)

Half a dozen gingerbreads. Four glass, two porcelain. The two at the bottom look kinda olive to me! These were on the opposite side of the house with the porcelain gingerbread and no-tie (see next pic.)

Two different sizes - pretty cool huh?

More T-bars and porcelains - these were at the other end of the drop shown in the previous pic ...

Three T-bars and three porcelains. Note that the top t-bar has split in two ...

A single porcelain T-bar.

Two uncommon things in this picture 1 - wooden pole (most poles are concrete), 2 - a brown porcelain pin type (most poreclains are white).

Four porcelain spools - I encountered just 9 porcelain spools on my trip (5 brown, 4 white), compared to thousands (literally) of glass

Twelve glass spools, three porcelain spools and four pin types - these were found on a small sub-station buidling. Notice the wall-tubes to the left. Is that pin-type at the bottom glass or mud?

... on the side of a house... A couple of porcelains there too ...

... original is the first one, the top 3 porcelains are the 3 phases, the glass is the neutral wire. The 4th bottom porcelain is the street light phase ...

The big one is a BORMA CD 383, also a MIVA T2, a light green/ice frog, and three T6s in glass and porcelain. The glass T6s are CD 1076. The porcelain one is the same saize as the smaller T6-bis.

Three different "T6" style wall insulators (AKA Nail Knobs over here). The glass ones are MIVA, the green one is clearly embossed MIVA T6, the light green "ice" is unembossed, the slightly shorter ...

For the pole displays.. At the first electrifying we signed the neutral wire with glass Insulator after it we signed with brown porcelain. tow 3 Insulators held the 3 phases and the bottom one held the street light ...

This shows the stamped marking of this CD 638 "clone" I don't know the assigned U-number, or if even one already exists. The marking and "model number" is also similar to that on various glass CD ...

Manufactured by Yuznouralsk, and the porcelain "clone" of the CD 638 shown Their (somewhat fuzzy in this picture) company logo is located here:

AKA The French Egg. White porcelain "egg" strain insulator, with a little "flower" or wagon wheel marking. Length about 3 inches. If you think that it looks exactly the same as this one: it is ...

I also just got this one from Caleb (who also took the photo). White porcelain noser, found in Romania, and possibly manufactured in Russia? The shape and size of the main body (less the nose job) is very similar to ...

An EP-87 "Weitschirm" style porcelain insulator which I recently "won" on E-bay. What is the manucacturer and country of origin, and does this have an official U or M number? Dimensions are approx 8 ...

... MIVA T2 CA in green glas, and two old porcelains, one VERBANO, the other unknown ...

Types 1/Um and 2/Um (smaller) in a nice blue color. The big one is from a trade with my friend Christian

This has to be one of the strangest looking porcelain insulators I've ever seen. It is apparently from France. This gives a whole new dimension to the definition of a "noser" insulator. Here are the ...