✅ SOLVED hook

[bufaloeletric]

this object appears to me as if the word "thomas" is printed on it and the number "16" i may be very well wrong on one or both tho. can someone identify the white substance that the hook protrudes out of. porcelain maybe? i found it while searching the are of a civil war skirmish.

 

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[DCMatt]

High voltage porcelain wire suspension insulator



Never seen one with a hook like that though...

DCMatt

 

[wvwildman]

looks like part of a scale

 

[DCMatt]

Markings on Thomas ceramic insulators:

R. Thomas & Sons Co. (pin-types: circa 1892-1957)



DCMatt

 

[NOLA_Ken]

DCMatt has it 100%

 

[doublet2a]

Yep,, got one just like it somewhere here.
I'll dig it out and take a pic.

Tim

 

[bufaloeletric]

then this would be my first insulator. does it perhaps screw out from the cast iron bell?

 

[bufaloeletric]

a collector i emailed sent me this pic of an intact one. does it still count that i found my first one since its broken?

 

[doublet2a]

I finally remembered where I hung that thing.
Here's the pic I promised..

Tim

 

[bufaloeletric]

I finally remembered where I hung that thing.
Here's the pic I promised..

Tim

haha, you must have alota things hangin to keep track of.