Old Electric Line Insulators

Vintage brookfield 21 blue green glass usa telephone line insulator.

Old electric line insulators.

Lot of 8 antique vintage insulators glass clear blue green hemingray beautiful. 6 power line telephone pole 10 000 lb. Make offer vintage. In the mid 1960 s a few people began collecting these glass and porcelain insulators.

Glass insulators were first produced in the 1850 s for use with telegraph lines. Homedecor insulator light lamp recycled upcycled vintage design. Make offer lot of 8 antique vintage insulators glass clear blue green hemingray beautiful. Vintage 1948 locke electrical insulator.

Ending saturday at 10 27am pdt 13h 5m. Make offer great light electric blue cd 162 h g co signal style glass. As technology developed insulators were needed for telephone lines electric power lines and other applications. Vintage brookfield telephone telegraph insulator greenish blue 3 cast into top.

Insulators were first developed in the mid 1800s to be used on telegraph and telephone lines to contain the electrical current and prevent the current from entering the ground below. Stunning milky cobalt blue cd 162 hemingray signal style glass insulator 32. Their sole purpose was to insulate the wire from the wood reason for which materials such as glass porcelain or composite polymer materials had been chosen. Today there are over 2000 collectors and insulator clubs national shows and good reference books are available.

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Great light electric blue cd 162 h g co signal style glass insulator 27 308 75 11 00 shipping. Brown ceramic vintage electric telephone pole insulator. The spring fits quite nicely around the tapered top edge and creates a wide stable base. Make offer ex large brown ceramic 3 tier high voltage electric insulator vintage 12lb.

Lot of 13 antique vintage glass electrical insulators. Antique vintage glass insulators lot of 8 different types and colors. In conjunction with the expansion of rural electrification in the early 20th century there was a major boom in the manufacturing of insulators with production peaking from the 1920s through the 1940s when millions of hemingray dominion and. Upcycle a glass insulator as well as an old mattress spring.

In 1850 companies such as hemingray bookfield and whitall tatum started producing glass insulators for telegraph lines telephone and power transmission lines later on. Antique vintage brown ceramic porcelain electric pole insulator beauty.