There are a couple of these listed on the e-place, from Poland. I'll take some more photos after it, and a few other assorted pieces, arrive in a couple weeks. It looks similar in shape to one of the Russian BC3 / ...

... . We'll trade again for American Color porcelains or unusual Rt insulators ...

Also today, I got a new find: a type 2 marked VACCARI and dating may 1952: here in this pix how I got it, before removing the pin and washing the porcelain.

... small village and found these two small porcelains: interesting also the ancient hand made hooks ...

The green "Langenthal" marking is under the inner skirt, next to the pinhole. Note the pink "plaster" remains inside the pinhole, and the cut-off wires in the access hole. I've seen this pink stuff ...

This one arrived along with the green MIVA piece. White porcelain, screw-top terminal insulator, green-ink marked "langenthal" under the inner skirt. The top cavity has the orignal black asphalt potting ...

A slightly different angle of the porcelain spool on it's bracket. I am trying to find the name of the mfg. company, and country of origin, plus where used. In this picture, you can better see the extended inner skirt ...

... tiny T-bar, noser, and hole in the head porcelains. Generally thought to have been made and used in France 1900-1915. For your consideration today is ...

I bought the one on the right from Calgary collector, Ted Ingram years ago. I always thought it was English, like the two beside it are. Since then I have never noticed another like it. On the left is a U-1392 similar ...

The white porcelain piece is from Bulgaria, according to the marking. Not sure if 1873 is the date of manufacture, or the model number. Skirt diameter is 80 mm (# 1/8 inch). The green-aqua glass one is a CD 106, ESA // ...

Situated between a couple of Telegrafos Nacionales 214's, you have an idea of how small these pieces are. These tiny insulators will now become permanent residents on the foreign display racks. Seeking to determine ...

These are not impostulators. They are the real thing, and do show some slight usage wear and base chipping. The dimensions are as follows: Hole in the head insulator. Base 2 in., height 2.5 in. Hole in head 3/16 in, and ...

Last saturday, in Lucca town: porcelain and glass insulators, on sale.

I had posted an earlier photo of this one, before cleaning all the soot, rust and wire rubs from it with oxalic acid. The seller thought it may have been porcelain, but it is definitely some form of white (though not ...

A nice big "family group" photo, of all 22 insulators together. 19 Porcelain, 3 glass.

More T-bars, spooks, a Paderno power piece, another power insulator, and ceramic strain with the wires still attached, another wall tube, and a Miva T-8 CD 529.5 in green. Porcelain is mostly Richard Ginori and Verbano.

This is the first half of a bulk purchase. T-bars, spooks, telephone and power pieces, glass strain "johnny ball", Pyrex FT-92 (1957), next to its two porelain cousins, and a small wall tube. Porcelain items ...

It's still on the metal pin and covered with the usual soot and goo that time in service deposits on an insulator in service. The same collector sent me this one, for its provenance. The light purple glass was used in ...

Two insulators, mfd by Richard Ginori, the most important italian porcelain factory: a spook dating 1950s, and a brown strain, a bit newer ('60s). Purchased in Pisa town last saturday

Today I got these four insulators, a couple porcelain RICHARD GINORI FT 92 found abandoned on a country wall, and two BORGO N° 263 B, that I asked (and obtained) from an old farmer in Garbarino di Rovegno, 50 miles from ...

A closer-up detail of the four striped porcelain insulators, three green, one red.

This is a porcelain "wall tube" for the entry of a wire into the building, then into the "knob and tube" style wiring. The "bell" end with the pink stripe would be located outsude, and ...

The "care package" from Italy arrived today! 14 insulators, 10 glass, 4 porcelain, one strange little "wall tube" and an arrestor (spark gap). The items are as follows, as described by the seller:: ...

This is a scanned page from the 1865 book "Der Telegraphenbau" by Rother. Here is the ancient French type of insulators, with the one-eared gingerbread pictured. Before the gingerbreads, the French used ...

Many porcelain spooks, RICHARD GINORI and VACCARI (two diffreent types), a few line insulators, and four green striped terminals (see other pic) of a type just discovered: we are very very satisfied................ it's ...