Classic LV insulator in brown version: the small one is a B 100, known also in white and green porcelain, the big one is marked RICHARD GINORI on top, and comes from a trade with my friend Guido

These two spooks are from a trade with my friend Christian: the glass one is a MIVA BT 3 V in its clear version. The porcelain one is probably not Italian, and has an unusual top.

Near Cocullo village, this line with all 1/1920 insulators, both in glass and porcelain (replacement) insulators. The line belongs to the FS (Italian State Railroads)

last mounth I found big white insulator with ears. Greate old polish porcelain in russian norm.

Very expensive, and with the inner skirt damaged, this unmarked t-bar in Nizza Monferrato

This old T-bar mfd by VACCARI (in Genoa town) dates Oct. 1956, has the typical V in a rectangle, with the name of GENOVA below, and the writing CN 28 indicating the model.

Old Verbano weitschirms (porcelain dating late 1920s) on the wall of a house in Cecina town, Tuscany. The glass insulator in the pic is a replacement (RP 5). Note the first insulator damaged

This is another eBay special I got last week. The closest U # i could match it to was a U-2070, but this piece has a conductor groove on the top and the arm is different. As for size of this piece... I can fit my pinkey ...

Two old terminal insulators for telephone lines: the first is marked, both on hat and on body "RICHARD GINORI", while the second has the marking "GINORI", to indicate that it's older (ante July 1930).

Unmarked LV insulator used in Sicily..... a new entry in my collection

Today I got these insulators: a couple AVB 75 in brown porcelain marked FIP, a MIVA AVB 75 in aqua glass, and two FIDENZA 6118, 1st and 3rd series, from a dump near Parma town

A rare t.bar in white porcelain marked VERBANO. Nice item!

Not far from Florence, the gate you see, with two Richard Ginori porcelain insulators: the new collector's house?

What I and my friend Aldo got on june, 2: BORGO, FIDENZA and MIVA insulators for MV, and small and very unusual porcelain unmerked insulators for LV

Pierre Dessapt of Lyon, France was at the Insulator Ranch for a visit on May 17. Thanks to Pierre, my French collection continues to grow in leaps and bounds. Pierre's main collecting interest is Radios of the 30's-50's ...

A white porcelain gingerbreadman aquired from Jason Porter at last Sept. Merritt Insulator Show. Shown with a glass gingerbread man for size comparison. The insulator has a recessed oval with the letters "O" ...

This insulator surfaced on eBay a couple weeks ago, and I was happy to win it. It is quite an odd shape with its round head, one hole and small diametre at the wire groove. Neither does it have an inner skirt; see next ...

Every varistors in Poland are porcelain. that glass piece I found in my school in recycla bin. I found there some antenna and station insulators.

Here one of the few poles that survived.......... Richard Ginori insulators, and aluminium wires

Found in Larderello (Pisa) and rescued last Sunday: it's described in the RICHARD GINORI 1912 catalog. After some hours the pin was removed from the porcelain.

Here's the last of the incuse markings: S 43 I wonder what the S is used to designate? If I come across the details I'll add them here. My guess is the 43 designates a factory shop and batch number. I can add that ...

Here some insulators for sale: 2/1920 in all white porcelain and in pyrex glass (Verbano and Miva), a telephone FT 92 all white by Verbano, and two aqua glass Miva 100 PR 71

All the insulators I had from this hunt: glass and porcelain for low and medium voltage, MIVA, FIDENZA, CERAMICA LIGURE and RICHARD GINORI

Shown are 3 porcelain insulators believed to be Swedish. Markings on the tops of the 2 outside insulators similar to markings on 3 that James Bancroft rescued from Sweden on a recent trip with Fredrik Hojefalt. The ...

For your viewing pleasure, what I believed to be a Swedish porcelain. The top is very similar to 3 insulators that James Bancroft gave me after a hunting trip with Fredrik Hojefalt in Sweden. Different in this one are ...