Posted 4 years ago
fortapache
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Not sure if this one is true green, looks to have a touch of blue in it. Anyway this is not the typical insulator as it has the double ring which makes room for two sets of wires. I would guess this would be a wire crossroads insulator where an east/west line would cross a north/south line. My guess is telegraph line so perhaps this is pre 1900. It has to be 1921 max as Brookfield was out of production after that. Also this is a smaller insulator called a Pony at only 3" tall. It still fits on a standard insulator post as seen on figure 4.
In the meantime it gives me a chance to use the corner logs of my log home to good effect.
Hope it cleans up. Check it out, CD115 https://www.nia.org/general/cd_text/cd115.htm
Thank you very much iggy. I am watching a video on cleaning these. It probably won't work.
I think it's the actual color, the reason for different shades was partially because they recycled glass even back then. Immigrants were paid to pick up broken glass which was mixed in, probably why many have imperfections also. I have several different types of Brookfield insulators and have done some research trying to learn a little about them.
Thank you very much crewnail. That would explain that.
FortA...check the comments in my post. I had a couple really interesting links that talked about the recycled glass..
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/297084-armstrongs-glass-insulators?in=user
Will do Dave.