Vintage Glass Electric Pole Insulators

Old insulators which are bell shaped and used to suspend phone lines and power lines from supporting poles have long been a popular item to collect especially among many who grew up.

Vintage glass electric pole insulators.

Antique insulator 42 hemingray decor paper weight electric telegraph telephone pole insulator aqua glass krazyoldantiques. These days most telephone poles have either silicone or ceramic insulators and many people are recycling the obsolete glass insulators as communications and power companies continue updating aging lines. Vintage glass insulators were first produced in the 1850s for telegraph lines then for telephone and power transmission lines. 6 vintage electric or telephone pole brown insulators.

Lot of vintage hemingray electric fence insulators vintage glass industrial decor farmhouse decor glass paperweight glass collection. They are made from glass porcelain or composite polymer materials nonconductive materials. Insulators were originally designed to keep the wires linking telegraphs and telephones insulated from. Glass insulators were first produced in the 1850 s for use with telegraph lines.

Today there are over 2000 collectors and insulator clubs national shows and good reference books are available. 5 out of 5 stars 252 252 reviews 12 00. Antique glass electric insulators lot of 5. 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.

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