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".

This is the brown porcelain piece marked "VARLEY'S PATENT" that was in the display case at the Donegal Railway Museum. The museum erpersentative told me she believed it to be very rare.

All the insulators I got in these days in Tuscany: some telephone insulators (TS 1 FP), and lv, mv and suspensions. The porcelain are all Richard Ginori but the big suspension. The two mv glass insulators are MIVA M 315 ...

Today I got this U-type, one of the oldest Italian insulators: no comment about its conditions!

In the Trebbia valley there are many abandoned villages where it's not hard to find insulators: this is what I rescued today: three old and rare insulators, two in glas and one in porcelain. I'm very hapy for it!

On the wall of this house in Isola village, some line insulators type 2/Um and porcelain T-bars. It would be nice to live in a house like this..........

Do you remember my pic entitled "Abandoned 125 kV line"?. These two poles belong to the same line, but are standing 70 miles away from the other one. All crossing points on the road were cut for the safety of ...

Here you can see the marking: 7 (manufacturing lot) - II (FEB.) - 1936 of this old suspension disk.

This one has the "insulator symbol" inside a large C and has what looks like a backwards letter N inside, this is the Cyrillic letter И, equivalent for the letter I, The И is for ...

A motley collection of glass and porcelain T Bars and Nosers from Italy, France, Portugal and Cambodia (the CD 690 in the back was located in Cambodia). The CD 690 has the "GA" (Gardy Argenteuil) embossing, ...

That style is typical on polish 0,4KV poles. since 1960's You can buy that spools in brown and white colour and in two sizes

Brown porcelain strain from Poland

Russian brown porcelain telephone insulator

That is the most popular insulator in my collection and in Poland too.

Here two insulators found today morn: a glass telephone type FT 92 mfd by MIVA in 1959 for TE.TI. (TElefonica TIrrena, old telephon co.)., and another 3 kV porcelain insulator type cn 560 mfd by VACCARI in june 1952

Some versions of the 2/Um insulator, both in porcelain and glass, on the table (no, they're not good for dinner).