Ceramic Insulator Collectors

Today there are over 2000 collectors and insulator clubs national shows and good reference books are available.

Ceramic insulator collectors.

Insulators were originally designed to keep the wires linking telegraphs and telephones insulated from. Free shipping on many items browse your favorite brands affordable prices. As technology developed insulators were needed for telephone lines electric power lines and other applications. 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.

In fact the company logo is a suspension insulator with legs. Go to previous slide popular cd styles. Link to other types of insulators. Click on an insulator above for more information.

Showing slide current slide of total slides popular cd styles. Most of them apparently are suspension types. The company was founded in the ukraine in 1965 and now claims to have made over 250 000 000 insulators. West newton pa 15089.

Return to the national insulator association page. Porcelain insulators have not received the same level of interest as glass over the past 20 years of collecting. In the mid 1960 s a few people began collecting these glass and porcelain insulators. And speaking of russian insulators there are a number of pieces listed as lviv produced insulators.

However they are equally historically significant and available in as many colors and significantly more styles. The official magazine for insulator collectors since 1969 for 50 years crown jewels of the wire has been the leading publication for glass and porcelain insulator hobby news history articles with columns devoted to worldwide insulators show reports in depth research articles meeting announcements photos and other insulator information. Shop for and learn about vintage glass insulators.