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).

Established in 1911, CERAMICA LIGURE started the production of porcelain insulators in the 1920s and closed in 1977. The factory was in Genoa town. Here one of the earliest PADERNO type with its marking CERAMICA LIGURE ...

This small distribution insulator marked RICHARD GINORI on its top, is the porcelain version of the MIVA T5 glass insulator, known in clear, aqua, and dark green color. This is a very rare version with the factory ink ...

Three Siemens Bock insulators in green glazed porcelain, from the dismantled line Roma Fiuggi. I still have to get the brown version, after this and the white ones. (see also SIEMENS BOCK THREADLESS INSULATOR ...

These two "large bell" type insulators come from the old railroad between Rome and Fiuggi, and date early 1900. The porcelain insulator is from the original equipment, the emerald green glass insulator is a ...

These chains are in clear glass but look as porcelain, being frozen, in the early morn of the northern Italy winter. (Italian State Railroad 66 kV line). [IFONA]

This is the group of three SIEMENS-BOCK insulators used for the Roma-Fiuggi railroad (3kV D.C.). They belong to the last series used here, are marked IMEC (Industria Milanese Elettro Ceramica) and date 1980. On the ...

Porcelain insulators of just about every type. http://www.iraninsulator.com/pages/product.html Pictured above is a "Type 0902" telephone transposition insulator [IFONA U]

These are two British porcelain insulators marked (incuse) MEADOWS & CO - BULLERS LTD MANUFACTURERS. Bullers is an old name well known since the late 1800. The porcelain is gray-white, typical of British ...

This set of insulators has been purchaesd at a flea market for a few Euros: good business! [IFONA U]

Pisa station, nov. 24: some poles with old I.489A (lower wire) and I. 489M (upper wire) insulators. The iron bars that hold the wires are called "spider legs" [IFONA]