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Posted 9 years ago
fortapache
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Picked up three vintage glass insulators last Friday from the scratch and dent area of a local antique mall. I had started out to just collect the California brand. But it looked so good in the window sill I got a few more. Looks like I will need to find a new place for the rock collection.
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Hey, Fort, I like these! The first picture looks like a scene from some early 1950s/1960s Japanese sci-fi movie! I say ditch the rocks and get more of these! Rocks......aren't they them things you just pick up off the ground?!!? LOL!!! [;>)))))))
With just an H, it's Hemingray. With a B, it's Brookfield. Brookfield also usually put a number or letter on the dome of the insulator. Hemingray sometimes only put an H on the dome, or skirt.
Hemingray 40's and 42's are the most commonly seen insulator. In colours other than aqua, blue, or clear, they're not as common. 1930s-1960s, if I recall.
The Beehive shaped ones by Hemingray (H. G. Co.) are usually pre-1910 and also pretty common. There was a massive over-stock of them that lasted the company into the 1960s.
The Brookfield ones without a B, but saying Brookfield, may on the dome say some address. Those are pre-1910. The dome-embossed ones are typically older.
If not embossed, I'd attribute it to Brookfield. Often, their embossing is so light that it cannot be seen.
Thank you very much NevadaBlades. Rocks are out and insulators are in.
Thank you very much SpiritBear. The Hemingway has Hemingway embossed on it. The one on the right has a reversed 15 embossed on top. I should take a photo. The one to the left of the Hemingway has nothing so apparently a Brookfield.
Thank you very much for you help.
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The Hemingray in the photo says Hemingray. R, not W.
Brookfield made insulators in 3-man (and boy, often) teams known as shops. Each shop had a number/letter assigned to it. They were paid by how many insulators they made, so they marked the top of each for counting the number produced by each shop.
Sometimes Hemingray marked their insulators' tops with a number. I cannot explain why.
When you get into the Hemingray May 2nd, 1893, insulators, know that they put that patent date on some of them up to the 1960s. The patent was for the drip points, which are sharp or rounded bumps on the bottom of many of their insulators.
Thanks again SpiritBear. Just picked up an 1893. Will post it eventually.
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Thank you SEAN68.
Thank you Trey.