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#2773        VARLEY'S PATENT.        Brown stoneware.

  Lot # 2773
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#2773        VARLEY'S PATENT.        Brown stoneware.

Insulator height: 4 inches.  Overall height with bracket: 9 inches.

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.

This insulator is shown on page 90 as Figure 134 in Keith Neal's book titled Searching For Railway Telegraph Insulators.  He describes it as "Southern Railway.  Varley's Patent No. 8 insulator in brown stoneware on original pole bracket, recovered from Wilton Station near Salisbury in 1965."

Varley insulators are old and desirable, but much more so when still retaining the original tie wire and pole bracket.  And, we have a history of where it was recovered 58 years ago!  The insulator has never been cleaned, still covered with decades of railway soot.

Half pinkie nail, flake type chip above the wire groove.  Otherwise, excellent.  Iron has surface rust.

Lis & Jim Bergman collection.