This is a classic B 100 insulator, but with a rare marking: FIP, that means Fabbrica Isolatori Porcellana (Porcelain Insulators Factory). Its marking is rather rare because FIP mostly exports its production out of ...

INn Piedmont, northern Italy, there's an old factory under demolition, where you can find lots of porcelain insulators. I've just been there to take some pix of them [IFONA]

Yesterday, at a flea market I purchased these two old and small porcelain insulators. So my collection grows......................... [IFONA U]

This is from eastern Europe: a very nice t-bar in blue porcelain [IFONA U]

This is a small, unusual porcelain insulator from U.K. One of my favourite foreign insulators in my collection [IFONA U]

This is the same insulator in visas versa. [IFONA U]

4 terminal insulators for telephone lines: the glass ones are MIVA (CAP 1219 the large one, and the small type 3C), and one of the two porcelain is marked Richard Ginori. [IFONA CD ??? U]

Three small porcelain spooks, the first unmarked, the second is a Richard Ginori, the third is a Vaccari. 1930 circa. [IFONA U]

This pic shows a CN 567 mfd by VACCARI in 1950 with its hardware. It's a 40 kV insulator once used in a substation near Genova, my town. [IFONA M]

This is an old porcelain strain insulator marked Richard Ginori: it was used on a telephone line in Sardegna island. This belongs to the 1st generation of Italian strain insulators. [IFONA U]

White and green porcelain insulator from France: the same type was also mfd in Italy, but totally white. [IFONA U]

This is the first I've seen of one of these from Brazil. If you have any let me know, in any color. Thanks [GIFONA U]

Here's an old German porcelain insulator for low voltage (max. 1 KV). Insulators like this are even used before World War II and sometimes you will find them today on overhead lines in Germany, but the chance is ...

Here's a very attractive super bright red U-1451 Bullers British porcelain insulator in VVNM condition. Thanks goes to Santa, er Jason Townsend for this beauty! I am still not done thanking him for his friendship (and ...

I was offered a pair of these beautiful porcelain insulators. They look German made. Anyone know for sure? Thanks [IFONA U]

Here is Iryna at an exhibit recently held in Poland, behind her are some of Lviv Insulator Company's glass products. The two pintype insulators are a HC 18 A / NS 18 A (CD 522.5) and a ShS 10 D (CD 638). the smaller CD ...

Bought this at the Western Regional in Denver. Kinda forgot about it till a couple of weeks after I got back. I started washing it, turned it over to clean inside of skirts and nearly dropped it when I saw "MADE IN ...

This is an unusual radio antennae bushing insulator. It may have seen use on a military vehicle or ship. Thanks to Lou Hall and Robin Harrison! Rick Soller believes it may have been used as a transformer bushing ...

This little emerald green one is from the Ukraine, CD is probably 586, the front is embossed BC3 which is the Cyrillic letters equivalent to VSZ the rear is marked 49. About 2.3 inches base diameter and 3.5 inches ...

On the road again. Somewhere between Westport and Belleek, this old pole has it all: abandoned porcelain insulators, different colors, a roof to protect the top of the pole from the rain, big sky in the background. What ...

My most colourful Australian piece. at 3 x 3 inch it is one of the smaller insulators. The swirly streaky pattern is quite uniform all around the whole insulator, almost like it was spun as the glaze was applied. There ...

This is a small French Hewlett disc in green glazed porcelain. The diameter is just under 4 inch. In the unglazed center it is marked with abbreviations in French: "B té"; Bréveté (patented), "SGDG"; ...

I got this little Portuguese made T-bar at the Enfield CT YPCIC show earlier this year. [IFONA U]

More nice porcelain in "as found" condition. Here we see a small, ca 5 x 5 inch, unipart insulator from Italy of the "Paderno" pattern. This insulator was recently taken down from a converting ...

On my road trip to the Wheaton Collectibles Show I passed on the highway a truck marked "PILKINGTON." I got all excited about the show when I saw the truck because I have been researching this manufacturer of ...