Some of my insulator finds

[Brains]

Here are some of my beter insulator finds, nothing too crazy or rare but nice when your low on cash.


The first insultor is a cd-152 hemingray 40, made around 1910-1915 give or take a couple years before it was replaced with the hemingray-42 in the 1920's. One of the first insulators i found, this one came crashing down on our backyard fence when the line was being dismantled. Thankfully, it survived and only a couple 42's were damaged. Outstanding color on this one, it's the one on the far right but all the 40's you see were find on the same line.


The seckond insulator is a steel blue/blue gray cd-145, also a hemingray product. Made sometime after 1884 and 1900 at the hemingray plant in Covington Kentucky this insulator was found on a local bikepath on a vey tall (30 feet or so) pole. There were many others in a couple other shades of blue and aqua on this line along with newer replacements bt this one survived because it was out of the range of peoples shot guns. (allmost every insulator was shot up on the line) I spent nearly a year looking up at it untill we finally got it down. Unfortunatly, the next day when we took it out of the acid wash we found the dome had a nice crack running through caused by the extreem heat in the acid bath. (really hot day, the bucket the acid was in acted like an oven and these older insulators cant stand extreem temperatures) Still, we isplay it proudly along our other petticoat-145's.

The 3rd insulator (posted in the thread, new here but not to the hobby)
Was found in a small baseball park. We were riding along a bike path (former Hocking adena railroad) looking for insulators but we didnt turn any up. When the bikepath turned away from the former right of way into the park i was ready to turn around when at the end of the park i saw what looked like a railroad bridge. As it turned out, it was. I dont know the name of the line, it might have been hte Mariettia (spelling?) and Cincinatti railroad or some un-named spur line conecting the two railroads with eachother. The only remaining partion of the line was about 500 feet long so i didnt have much to look in. When i saw the insulator i asumed it was a busted petticoat-145 in light aqua so i looked up at the stil standing telephone pole to see what it held. Nothing good, all 1940's junk that was busted. This was the only bullet i was able to find, apperantly the line was a telephone line from 1776, must have been one of the first telephone lines in ********** ohio. Best insulator i have found yet.

[Kentfb]

Very interesting. thanks

[julieburger]

Those are very cool. I want to find some now.

[EPC Guy]

I've always heard of people collecting these insulators...what kind of range of values to these have? ...I know it depends on type, condition, etc...just a ballpark average...I've never done any research on these type of items...

[Brains]

the most an insulator has ever sold for was $13,350 (i think, i know it was $13,XXX somthin) and most dont sell for anything. I cant realy give you an average price, i would say $50 would be my best guess though.

[gordiesgirl]

Nice insulators. I see them at the fleamarkets often Is there anything special to look for to know if there good or not.

[Brains]

bright colors, weird shapes is all i can tell you. Too many styles to chose from for me to be able to list what to look for.