A reprise of my display from 1984, again at the Genessee Valley Bottle Collector Association (GVBCA) Show and Sale, but this time in April of 1989. I had come back from a trip to France the previous summer -- right after I graduated, I went to Europe, met my friend Bill, and we bummed around through England, France, Germany, Netherlands, and Belgium, then I went on alone through Italy to Sicily to visit Isabelle. The display contains most of the ones from the previous display, plus a number more. The Pichots had found another insulator dump, and a large number of these came from there.
In addition, the brown gingerbread man on the bottom shelf in the display case has an interesting story. I found that piece in 1983, my first time in France. However, it has a large chunk missing from the back skirt, and I didn't save it that time. Since then, I discovered that the vast majority of French porcelain insulators are white. A brown gingerbread man was unheard of. I often kicked myself for not saving it. Well, when I went back, I made a point of going to the dump that I had originally been at. It had been bulldozed, and almost everything was gone. However -- I did stub my toe on this brown gingerbread man -- exactly the same one I had tossed out 5 years before.
The insulators in the light box, from top to bottom, left to right:
Shelf 1 CD 666 L'ELECTRO VERRE 81
CD 532 EIV DC 3
CD 536 EIV HC 64
CD 575 L'ELECTRO VERRE DC 2
U-2061 Unembossed
Shelf 2 sim CD 535 L'ELECTRO VERRE 43
CD 576 EIV DC 3
sim CD 577.1 L'ELECTRO VERRE 25
CD 576 L'ELECTRO VERRE DC 3
sim CD 535 FOLEMBRAY No 233
Shelf 3 CD 640 ISOREX 35/3
CD 645 ISOREX 25/7
CD 642 ISOREX 35/1
U-2057 Unembossed
U-2053 Unembossed
U-2051 Unembossed
Shelf 4 CD 640 VA
CD 640 FOLEMBRAY No 211
CD 642 FOLEMBRAY
CD 640 L'ELECTRO VERRE 35/3
CD 640 Unembossed
Shelf 5 CD 536.2 ISOREX HC 64
CD 545 ISOREX 35/3
CD 687 FOLEMBRAY No 287
CD 545 VA
sim CD 535 PFC 2111.b
Shelf 6 CD 1066 L'ELECTRO VERRE A22
U-1693 Cobalt blue underglaze
CD 1065 EIV A21
U-2035 Unembossed
CD 1066 EIV A22
Shelf 7 Large unembossed glass strain
Small unembossed glass strain
Porcelain capacitor
U-2053 Unembossed
Plastic cross top, embossed C 66
Plastic baby bottle, unembossed
The insulators on the table:
The four large ones in the back, from left to right:
CD 396.2 VHT22T
CD 386 ISOREX 478
CD 377 L'ELECTRO VERRE HT 30
CD 396 EIV VHT22T
The two suspension disks in front, left and right:
6" ISOREX T155
7" EIV 65
The seven spools in front of the light box are all unembossed, with the
exception of the glass one, which is embossed "EV" in front, "PH 40" in back.
The smallest spool is made out of white plastic.