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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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An Interview With Antique Glass Insulator Collector Ian Macky

I got interested in insulators when I lived in El Cajon and my neighbor worked for San Diego Gas and Electric. His son had a bunch… [more]



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