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#2762      Slender ebonite insulator with cotter pin.      Brown.

  Lot # 2762
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#2762      Slender ebonite insulator with cotter pin.      Brown.

Insulator height: 4 inches.  Insulator and pin mounted on a wood display unit measures 8 inches in height. 

From Great Britain.  Once part of Keith Neal's collection, later purchased by Marilyn Albers after Keith's passing, and still later became a part of the Jim & Lis Bergman collection after Marilyn passed.

Keith Neal, in his book book titled "Railway and Other Rare Insulators" describes this insulator on page 14, figure 15:  "The first is a tall and narrow insulator with an angled slot in the top for the wire which is held in place by a steel split pin (fig 15, left).  It is without any inner shed and measures 4" tall, cemented onto a half inch diameter spindle with heavy square collar and wood thread for screwing into the arm.  The insulator shows evidence of being turned on a lathe and the outside is highly polished.  The spindle is of galvanized iron."

Keith Neal also referred to the use of a the split pin at the top for securing the line wire as evidence of a very early production date, due to the fact that feature being very early in the development of insulator types.

A rare item that remains in excellent condition.

From the collection of Jim & Lis Bergman