Posted 8 years ago
SpiritBear
(813 items)
For those who do not know, the easiest way to explain what a transposition insulator is (from my last post) is to show one.
I picked up at the Grand Rapids, Michigan, bottle show today this Brookfield 2-piece Transposition insulator with original wooden peg.
I have wanted one for most of my few years collecting insulators.
Brookfield was a major producer of all sorts of wonderful insulators but is not as popular in the hobby as Hemingray.
Brookfield went down in 1921.
This seems to be less common than the Am. Tel. & Tel. Co. versions, but it is not a rare insulator. It's just cool as heck (to me.)
![CD 162 [240] Hemingray Patent May 2 1893 cobalt blue glass insulator, sharp drip](https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/n48AAOSw7OFmGRrU/s-l225.jpg)
Its nice, i love the two pc, have a couple myself but i concentrate on only a couple styles. Dont have space to ollect all I would like to.
Yeah, space really runs out quickly. LOL.
A long-time insulator collector and student tells me this is a 1910-1915 type that is never seen with BROOKFIELD, but instead just the B.
Very cool:) never seen one.
Thanks. :)