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]

I love Tuscany and always find insulators, when I go there: in this last rainy weekend I could find these two LV insulators: a MIVA BT 2 BIS in green glass, and a porcelain unmarked one. [IFONA U CD ???]

This is a small porcelain cone insulator, extremely rare and nice. Unmarked [IFONA U]

It seems to be a 1910s insulator, but I don't think it's an Italian type [IFONA U]

This insulator, very similar to a 1920 type, has a strange thread, like the English insulators: can you give info about it? [IFONA U]

Here is a wiew of the small collection I got today: all porcelain and old insulators, some indoor. [IFONA U]

The company logo is from their website, then converted to a jpeg from a gif file, and enlarged 3X from the original very small size (116 X 60 pixels). THat's why it's a bit "fuzzy" looking. Directly ...

Here you can see an old telephone/low voltage insulator in porcelain. One of the series coming out from the evolution of U and Um types. Unmarked. [IFONA U]

This is a FIL (Fabbrica Isolatori Livorno) MV insulator, mfd in 1931, in two pieces, under Goddard patent. These insulators are extremely rare, due their age, and 'cause they were produced in not large quantity, since ...

Today I got these insulators: one type 1/1920 without green stripe, two red striped ones, a foreign insulator with hook, a rare Locke dating 1920s, three very small threaded insulators for inner plants, and three ...

This insulator is very similar to the classic Beznau style, but with simple top groove. Nice piece for my collection [IFONA U]

... : it's not easy to find unglazed porcelains ...

This is a classic Italian railroad pole with I .489 porcelain insulators. Italian State Railroads abandoned porcelain insulators 25 yrs ago, but they still remain in service on secondary lines. On the background you can ...

Two Russian "porkies" and one "Maltsov" glass. Note the holes through the sides of the top wire guide on the right-most one. The Maltsov is not the CD 579.5, but is a mich smaller piece. The ...

Three little Russian made transpo's, the two glass ones are BC3 / VSZ and the porcelain one is from a yet to bet determined manufacturer, it is incused on the "dome" with a T inside a circle and an indistinct ...

There are no threads inside. First one reported! Actually much smoother than my photo indicates, although there is a weird piece of clay or porcelain that sits on part of the inside as seen here, but its totally smooth ...