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Glass Insulators Reference Page
Insulator collector's resource and information for glass, porcelain, and telegraph insulators. Contains show calendars, clubs, history, identification, glossary, tips, and links.
http://www.insulators.com/
Bill Winters' Insulator Page
This site combines pictures with a narrative including insulator interests, favorite insulators, personal stuff, links and an email contact.
http://hometown.aol.com/allbw/ICONpage.html
Sluggo's Insulator Home Page
This personal insulator collecting homepage features Australian and other non-United States-produced glass. Lots of reference information, photos and an 'Insulator of the Month' page.
http://www.cyberbeach.net/~dknetzke/sluggo's_homepage.htm
Glass and glass-making in Canada - Industrial glass
This page is part of an historic reference site dealing, in part, with Canadian glass works. Pictured here is a lightning rod insulator bearing the "Hickock's Patent 1859", USA.
http://www.civilization.ca/hist/verre/veind01e.html
RedMtnMan's Insulator Site
This for-sale collector's site has insulators for sale with pictures. It also includes links, other collectibles for sale and an email contact.
http://redmtnman.homestead.com/index.html
The Wayback Times - Threadless Insulators
Collector's site
http://www.waybacktimes.com/ThreadlessInsulators.html
Insulator Collector's Picture Forum
A photograph gallery where insulator collector's can post their insulator pictures by sending them to The Insulator Webmaster - Bill Meier.
http://www.insulators.com/pictures/
Spec-Tru Glass Color Reference Tool
A color reference system combining the functions of colorimeter and spectrograph as a tool for cataloging the colors in glass collections, or describing colors of insulators, bottles, jars, and other colored glass.
http://www.spec-tru.com/
The Dripped Signal
This site is dedicated to those collectors who inspired by history, stimulated with color and shape, developed this wonderful hobby of insulator collecting. It includes pages for 'Teats On The Petticoat', 'The 1893 Drip Point Patent', 'A fantastic! Graduation of Color', and 'An easy way to remember the basic styles'..
http://www.cd162.com/
Ross Baird's Insulator Collection
A Texas collector of unusual color glass insulators.
http://hometown.aol.com/nsulator/index.html
Collecting Insulators
Information on the hobby of collecting insulators and related collectibles. Contents include pictures of insulators, history of companies, patents, where to find insulators, manufacturing details, insulator terminology, books on the subject, and background on the hobby.
http://www.collectinginsulators.com/
Insulator Defined
The MacMillan Encyclopedia of Physics definition of an insulator.
http://www.physics.udel.edu/wwwusers/watson/scen103/insulato.html
Insulators: The Hidden Obsession
Pictures, show reports, and collecting stories.
http://insulatorz.home.att.net/
MyInsulators.com
Provides space at no charge for insulator and go-with collectors to maintain a site. Also a directory of member sites.
http://myinsulators.com/
Porcelain Insulators
Collector, research expert, historian's site
http://www.r-infinity.com
Threadless in Alexandria, VA
Collector's photograph
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~jjaxel/in_use_1862.htm
Jim and Terry Wright's Webshots
This virtual photo album includes colorful pictures of insulators and various other collectibles.
http://community.webshots.com/album/9824000bLUWTUfECk
Insulator and Telegraph Information
Assortment of insulator, telegraph, telegram, mining and vintage document information and graphics. Also, insulator identification drawings and a listing of telegraph company names, and scanned telegrams. Extensive want list and trade item list.
http://members.aol.com/cd102
Insulator News & Market Report
Here is a commercial advertising a high-end, industry specific journal that serves the commercial electrical market as a source of information on international developments in power transmission and distribution.
http://www.inmr.com/
Lisa's Collecting Glass Insulators
This page tells a short story about one collector's interest in the hobby. There are hobby related links here as well.
http://www.kinquest.com/hobbies/insulators.html
Insulator Magic
This collector's site combines graphics, pictures and narrative style text to present the insulator collecting hobby from a unique point of view.
http://www.angelfire.com/ks/InsulatorMaGiC/
Impostulators - Glass Insulator Replicas
This collector's for-sale site offers plastic insulator reproductions for sale. This site also includes hobby links and contact information.
http://www.lodi-biz.com/impostulators/
Open Wire Insulator Services
This commercial site presents the details of a full range of collector services including on-line insulator auctions augmented by an optional full color hardcopy catalog, consignment services, insulators bought and sold, apraisals and an email contact.
http://www.open-wire.com/
Jefferson State Insulator Club
A club which draws the majority of its members from Oregon and Northern California. Includes membership information, news and events, webcams, and articles.
http://www.insulators.com/clubs/jsic/
Insulator Collectors On the Net Webring
Group of insulator enthusiasts who have linked sites together to allows visitors and ring members easy navigation.
http://e.webring.com/hub?ring=insulators
Otter's Insulator Page
This collector's site combines pictures with a narrative including: What I Collect, Other Hobby Interests, Guestbook, hobby links and an email contact.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Flats/8506/
Collecting Glass Insulators
This Oregon collector's site includes insulator patent history, pictures, club and show information plus links to the insulator webring.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge/7282/
Brian's Glass Insulator Page
Shares pictures and descriptions of favorite pieces in glass insulator collection including many Heminggray, with related links.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/1324/
Collecting Glass Insulators
Insulator collecting site including photo album, complete collection index, how to get started, links, and insulator embossings of North America.
http://www.geocities.com/insulators.geo/
Craig's Insulator Picture Page
This site features a collector's insulators presented through graphic links to photographs with captions.
http://www.geocities.com/craigsinsulators/
Chesapeake Bay Insulator Club
This insulator club home page describes its service area, meeting and show schedule, members and contact information.
http://www.insulators.com/clubs/cbic/
Insulators from Australia
Collector's site, which includes history of Australian-made insulators.
http://www3.turboweb.net.au/%7Eplowe/insulators/welcome.htm
Hemingray.info
Christian Willis' personal insulator site featuring pictures, want list, collector information, cartoons, photo album, and links.
http://www.hemingray.info/
Peninsulators
Glass insulators in the San Francisco Bay Area, insulator hobby go-withs, related oddities and totally unrelated oddities too.
http://www.peninsulators.org
A Brief History of Insulators
One page from a virtual Civil War history museum
http://www.drumbarracks.org/Insulators.html
Electrical Insulators: The Vista Historical Museum
A brief written historical description of antique telephone insulators with photographs
http://www.geocities.com/vistahistoricalmuseum/vista/insulators.htm
The Old Times: Inside insulators
Feature article about an insulator collector.
http://www.theoldtimes.com/past/699_2.html
Clint's Place
Clint's website is an online display of hundreds of porcelain signal style insulators. Featuring well over 30 different manufacturers.
http://perceval2000.com/
Insulator Gurls at Large
Follow the odyssey of two Canadian insulator collectors, who refuse to take themselves seriously.
http://www.insulatorgurls.com/
Spencer Grueninger's Ohio Lightning Rod Insulators
Lightning Rod Insulator (LRI) collector's site with items for sale or trade.
http://groups.msn.com/OhioLightningRodInsulatorsItems/
Buzz Cashion's Insulator Site
Collector shares hobby of various types of insulators through pictures, and descriptions.
http://www.buzzc.net/buzzc.html
WGMCO's Insulator List
Collector's site
http://www.wgmco.freeservers.com
Charles' Insulator Photo Album
This hobby enthusiast's site pictures insulator related events, insulators from Mississippi and in his collection, links and an email contact.
http://www.angelfire.com/co/charlesinsulators/
Glass Threaded Insulator Nicknames
This page has a list of common and not so common insulator nicknames.
http://www.in-glass.com/nicknames/
Collectible Glass Insulators
Virtual photo album of Columbian Zicme insulators. [Registration required to view the images.]
http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=4292981271
Blue Ridge Insulator Club
A site for insulator collectors in Virginia or North Carolina areas who share a common interest in telegraph, telephone, and electrical insulators. Contains photo gallery and member links.
http://www.insulators.com/clubs/bric/
Glass Insulators and the Mud Club
This graphics rich insulator site features thumbnail pictures of both glass and porcelain insulators.
http://members.odsy.net/sprkplug/
National Insulator Association
This site provides detailed information about the National Insulator Association. Photographs related to collecting glass and porcelain insulators and significant historical data are also available.
http://www.nia.org/
Crown Jewels of the Wire Magazine
Magazine dedicated to the collectors of historic glass and porcelain insulators used by telegraph, telephone and electric power utilities. Includes value finder and subscription information.
http://www.crownjewelsofthewire.com/
In-Glass.Com
This collector's site includes a glass insulator CD162 signal color reference, glass insulator auction, direct sales and a colorful collector's gallery.
http://www.in-glass.com/
The Brookfield Store
This insulator enthusiast's site features Brookfield history, authentic reproductions of an actual hardbound catalog for sale plus an insulator store.
http://www.brookfieldstore.com/insulators/
Canadian Railway Telegraph Insulators
Pictures insulators used along Canadian railways and telegraph/telephone lines in the 19th and early 20th centuries. There are related links and an email contact as well.
http://www.cyberus.ca/~jhayes/insul.htm
Rainbow Riders Trading Post for Insulator Collectors
Collector's site
http://www.rainbowriderstradingpost.com/
Rod's Classic & Antique Antenna Insulators
Collector's site
http://www.tri.net/radio/ant/ant.html
Coble's Eclectica: The Insulator Zone
A narrative style insulator collector's site including a want list, pictures, and links to related sites.
http://home.frognet.net/~coble/zone.htm
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