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 ...

A B 130 R insulator mfd by Verbano: no inner skirt and thick porcelain against shocks for this unusual insulator. [IFONA U]

Back home after two weeks in Southern Italy, here's what I got: many new types for my collection and for trade, such as the big green glass French ISOREX 858 from Tuscany, and the porcelain PADERNO with crosstop. Soon ...

Here's a cool picture a friend sent me of rarely seen U-1944 Pierre patent porcelain dry spot insulators still installed on the side of a building in the UK! The number was published in the WorldWide Porcelain ...

Here's a U-1981A dome incused with Taylor & Tunnicliff. It measures an odd 4 1/2 inches x 5 1/4 inches tall. Upon close examination there is a tiny number "30" on the base! The one on the right is another ...

Here's some insulators from trading to a austrailian lineman who also collects. L-R: unmarked blue, white Safeguard Made In China, white Made in occupied Japan, unmarked blue spool. [IFONA U]

One from England, a Pilkington (CD 435) seen at the YPCIC show in Enfield CT, last April. There are not too many British glass insulators, and this particular one is very rare, only about 5 or 10 are known to exist. ...

... have been liberated. These British Red Porcelains will also be attending the Merritt, B.C. insulator show Sept. 10-11 /05, and will be first ...

7 British Porcelains found [liberated] recently, will be making a brief appearance at the Merritt, B.C. Insulator Show ...

This old wall crossarm, dating 1920, is equipped with four cylinderheads (see pic "old porcelain"), and repainted in its original black color. From a railway station in northern Italy, thanx to my friend ...

Yesterday a friend gave me these old (1920s) porcelain cylinderheads: they're 140 mm high and its weight is 1.450 kg. Here after a Hcl bath for cleaning. [IFONA U]