Later on Saturday I was walking by Bill Plunkett’s sales table when I noticed this insulator with the same rare glaze as the U202A! So I asked Bill if I could pick up his insulator and take a picture of it. Funny thing was – it was sitting right next to this beauty! Bill was quite surprised when I reached right past this beautiful sapphire Canadian threadless CD 718 to pick up the porcelain piece! The porcelain is a U179. Bill found it in Western Pennsylvania along the railroad tracks 40 years ago. Both of the rare glazed porcelain pieces were made by the Pittsburgh High Voltage Co.


 CD104 in a collection in Alabama.


The


lady he bought it from told him that her grandfather had picked it up in Maine back in the 60s and it had been boxed up for the past 40 years.


Chris Renaudo purchased this depression green CD136 B&O insulator from Ray Klingensmith at the show.


Curtis Erickson had these interesting foreign insulators on his table. Two large, light green Russian power insulators. He stated that they were possibly bus bar insulators and that according to the NIA website they are “station post style insulators”. The smaller porcelain U-1268 pieces in the photo he picked up himself      market. OTE stands for Organization of Telephones Ellas (Greece).


Mary Ann Pike of Venetia, Pennsylvania, brought this Westinghouse No. 3 CD102 in peacock blue to the show – mostly for show and tell. She found it in a collection she bought in North Central Ohio. The gentleman she purchased it from stated that his father was a lineman.


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