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Started by LarryInMichigan, July 27, 2010, 06:35:24 PM

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LarryInMichigan

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/clt/1866177479.html ( dead link 03-09-21 )

These are apparently becoming quite collectible.  There was a guy at the flea market this week selling these things for about $20 each.  Here is a real bargain right in Briny's neighborhood.

Larry

Greg G.

Quote from: LarryInMichigan on July 27, 2010, 06:35:24 PM
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/clt/1866177479.html

These are apparently becoming quite collectible.  There was a guy at the flea market this week selling these things for about $20 each.  Here is a real bargain right in Briny's neighborhood.

Larry

Yeah, but did anybody buy them for $20 each?

For a moment I thought you were going to keep me broke with another irresistable phone deal.  These I can say I can easily pass on.  I'm feeling my age now, I remember when these things were still in use. 
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bingster

I remember these, too.  Driving down a road, the sun behind them would make them gleam like little jewels.

They must use insulators still, but I guess they're just not in colored glass anymore?
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bwanna

20 bucks each seems steep.. i have a couple crates of these..some colored, some clear...
donna

McHeath

Yeah 20 dollars each is steep.  You can load up on them at the antique stores for 8 dollars a pop, and I think that's even too high for the common ones like these.  My son has a small collection of glass insulators, and a few odd and rare ones, but more than a couple of bucks for these would be too high in my mind.

paul-f

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I went to the recent National Insulator Association Show this month and saw some real beauties.  The variety is amazing.  The collectors also prepared some very educational displays.

Some examples of the various types are here:
 http://www.nia.org/general/index.htm

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Greg G.

#6
If they easily sold for $20 each, I would snap up the ones in the ad.  I knew people collected these things, but I didn't know to what extent.  Those collection pictures don't surprise me.  And to think when these things were becoming obsolete and taken out of service, it wasn't uncommon to find them in ditches.  I've said before you can name any artifact, and somewhere there is a group of people who collect them.
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Dan/Panther

The Amethyst ones are from ultraviolet exposure over many years.
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paul-f

Quote from: Brinybay on July 31, 2010, 06:58:45 PM

<snip>  And to think when these things were becoming obsolete and taken out of service, it wasn't uncommon to find them in ditches. 


Many years ago before I collected phones, my wife and I were on a hike through the woods and came acoss a pile of thousands of insulators that looked like they had been dumped from a large dump truck. 

Needless to say, I promptly forgot about it and have no clue where that was.  With the pace of development in this area, the land has probably been sold for house lots and the insulators are most likely now buried in someone's back yard.  It could be a surprise for them one day.
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bingster

Quote from: Dan/Panther on July 31, 2010, 07:35:35 PM
The Amethyst ones are from ultraviolet exposure over many years.
D/P
You often see that on pre-war cars.  The permanent glass headlight lenses will turn pale purple because of the sun.
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Greg G.

The page for insulator mistaken ID is interesting also.  I've seen the sidewalk skylights, they have them still in use in Pioneer Square in downtown Seattle.  You can see them from the underside as part of the Underground tour.

http://www.nia.org/notins/index.htm
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Greg G.

Here's a link for Hemingray insulators.  Lots of info, enough to get you started on yet another collecting buga-boo.  I'm not sure, but I think it's this one: 

http://tinyurl.com/2dy7y3f 

The more common Hemingrays only go for 1 or 2 dollars.

http://www.hemingray.info/database/index.php
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