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 ...

This is the bottom view of the 3 inch wide by 4 inch tall porcelain. Not even an insulator is safe from prying eyes. Here you can see the 2 holes in the underside of the insulator. There are no external holes. Pinhole ...

And now, for something different, 3 inches wide, 4 inches tall, small inner skirt 3/8 inch deep, but this insulator has two [2] holes up in between the inner and outer skirts. Both 1/4 inch holes are on one side of the ...

Sm white porcelain 3 1/8 inches tall, 3 inches across base with a 1/8 inch extended inner skirt. There is a oval depression 1/2 x 1/4 on the top with the following; NTP in a sm. oval, then 110. The insulator is glazed ...

... working at 150/220 V, ant two small porcelains (sorry for the feet ...

Three little porcelains from military equipment. look like outputs from radio or HV power suply ...

Here is an irish Fattie; U-1555 in pure white porcelain, taken from the pile of poles we first found. Not marked at all. Its shape/profile, in comparison with U-1555's made by Bullers, Taylor Tunnicliff or Gaskell & ...

Another mishap "a la Ireland": Here the pole is simply gone!?, and this crossarm hangs only supported by the plastic cables. The insulators are one of the smallest pattern single groove, quite rare on Ireland ...

Close-up of the hand logo.

This one has an interesting logo that looks like a stretched out hand with a triangle on it.

Both marked "P&T" meaning "Post & Telephone". One marked "Made in Japan".