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About Antique Purple Insulators

Colored insulators were sometimes sold by manufacturers to enable color-coding of the various wires on each telephone pole. But in other cases the color was the result of the manufacturer simply having used a batch of recycled glass left over from some other job in its manufacturing process.

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