Pictures- Insulators, Climbing, AEP sub.

[Hemingray Insulators]

Heres some pics of a display i have set up at the public library here in town, until Jan 13th, Portage public Library, Portage, MI if any of you are close and woul like to see it.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/insulatordisplay005.jpg
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[Hemingray Insulators]

here some recent pics from an insulator hunt my uncle and i went on Dec 26.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/100_0032-1.jpg
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[Hemingray Insulators]

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/100_0051.jpg
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http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/100_0037-1.jpg

[Hemingray Insulators]

AEP substation, in norther indiana, not sure of the voltage, possibly 345kV?
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/100_0058.jpg
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[Hemingray Insulators]

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[Hemingray Insulators]

more
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/100_0074.jpg
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[Hemingray Insulators]

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/100_0080.jpg
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http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/100_0075-1.jpg

[Hemingray Insulators]

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/100_0053.jpg
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[Hemingray Insulators]

thanks for the comment swamp, i've climbed with a gut starp since the beginning nearly. my first time up a pole my body belt was sliding down lol.so i got one and put it on my belt. works real good. i'm looking forward to the pic of your insulator, are you stil up for the 2007 national insulaotr show? i got the info packet here at home if you need to know anything.

[shaun]

At your age you show more potential than most of the new fellas here. Keep it up. If and when I come across some older type insulators, I'll give ya a PM and send em to ya.

[BigClive]

You're looking pretty comfortable in the hooks too. I hope nobody gives you a set of hotsticks or even the live insulators are going to be in trouble. :D

[Hemingray Insulators]

You're looking pretty comfortable in the hooks too. I hope nobody gives you a set of hotsticks or even the live insulators are going to be in trouble. :D

no the live insulators wouldn't be in trouble then, even if i had hotsticks, i aint messin with them.

[Hemingray Insulators]

i'm not sure how old that canpac is but i can find out. i'd guess probably the very early 1900s. however i can tell you that nowday they are worth between $50-75 lol.

here the info for the show.

38th Annual Show of the National Insulator Association will be held at the Holiday Inn International Drive Resort & Convention Center in Orlando, FL June 22-24, 2007.

[mrnick]

Brian.
Damn good pics buddy! The transmission pics got my attention immediately lol. And I have been through Elkhart, twice, take a trip to Gary Indiana. You will like those power lines, some towers are painted blue, yellow and green near Lake Michigan! Some cool shit over there, but it smells bad in that part of NIPSCO land.

ps. this is TheOgdenManCan from the other site..

[Hemingray Insulators]

those pics aren't the 765 line you were telling me about on the other site are they? the insulators don't look big enough.....
as for me i think i'll get to bed lol, i've been up since 4am yesterday:D

[mrnick]

Nope, those lines you got pics of are mostly 345kv stuff. there is a 765kv line that begins somewhere near Benton Harbor, Mich. You'll know it's 765kv when ya see it!

[Bigheadnc]

Great pics Hemingray Insulators. You in nortern Indy?

[Hemingray Insulators]

Great pics Hemingray Insulators. You in nortern Indy?

No, i'm not in norther indiana, i'm in southern michigan.

[mrnick]

another thing that is cool about AEP, is that they were the first in the country to come out with the first operating 345kV line..One of the original 345kV lines is located in KEntucky and runs parallel to Interstate 71 near Shelbyville, to a little bit south of Independence. For a line built in the 50's, last time I saw(2004) towers and insulators looked good from what I saw on the highway, plus it is not a "bundled" conductor, what I find so fascinating about it is that 345kV lines CAN operate with a single conductor cable rather than a 2-bundle conductor.

[BigClive]

no the live insulators wouldn't be in trouble then, even if i had hotsticks, i aint messin with them.

Hah! "Spelling error" my ass Hem. ;)

[mrnick]

Brian,
I forgot to add that this post doesn't belong in the "bs" part of the forum ;-)

[Hemingray Insulators]

ok, next time i'l post it in the linework forum.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/NEWBACKYARDLINE1-13-07015.jpg
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[Hemingray Insulators]

HERE is what Swamprat has wanted to see for the last year or so lol. I't finally done. anyone have 3 more poles i can replace the old ones with?

[LostArt]

Hey Brian! I really like your insulator collection. That's really neat buddy and you are sharing it with others. This is good educational stuff!!! :D

BTW, did I tell you the senior that helped me last year at work got a job? Yep, he did. I'm really glad for him. That's all he wanted to do was to be a lineman. He came in to see me yesterday and he said it's going well. He says it's slow go, but that comes with it. He is working with the Lake City office and is in the same company as the Boss.

Keep it up buddy. I always enjoy seeing how you are doing. Great pics!

[Hemingray Insulators]

Hey LA good to hear from you again. i can't remember, were you around, or were you on one of your "Missing in action" times when i told about the power company coming here and takeing my stuff down?

[LostArt]

Yeah, I remember some of that. I am MIA sometimes. As a matter of fact, I had computer problems again this week. I think it's the "operator" though. :D Redoing the kitchen cabinets and painting. But, I try and get by to read some. If you would have posted this in linework, I might of missed it. Glad this time you didn't. ;)

[Hemingray Insulators]

a few more
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/backyardline1-18-06002.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/backyardline1-18-06001.jpg

[loodvig]

Turn that bracket around. The lightning arrester should be on the TOP of the crossarm, not hangin below. :-)
Swamp, not all companys do that. It brings the neutral/ground up too close to the phases. ;=)

[Hemingray Insulators]

Cool shots!

I don't like how ya got that lightning arrester mounted though.

Turn that bracket around. The lightning arrester should be on the TOP of the crossarm, not hangin below. :-)

Just teasin man. Though, any company I've worked for since 78 mounts the LA Above the Phase. Turn the bracket around.

most of the ones i've seen have been mouted like i have it. not all, but most. just a preference thing i guess. this is the smallest arrestor i got, just a 5kv one, i have one that 9kv that would be above the crossarm even if it were mounted the way this one is.

anyhow, glad you liked them. now i just have to round up another arm to complete the pole (I'm doublearming it) and get more cutout/ arrestor brackets lol.

[Hemingray Insulators]

heres a few more pics i took of my collection a couple days ago.
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/backyardline1-21-06006.jpg

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/backyardline1-21-06003.jpg

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[Hemingray Insulators]

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/backyardline1-21-06015.jpg

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/backyardline1-21-06011.jpg

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[Hemingray Insulators]

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/backyardline1-21-06016.jpg

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/backyardline1-21-06014.jpg

There ya go Swamprat, i fixed the arrestor........for now. i had to put it on a part of a streetlight bracket, because i'm out of cutout' arrestor arm brackets........till i go raid the pile of stuff i have at my uncles in indiana of all the stuff i got from the power co-op down there last time we visited. its above the arm now, but i don't like how close it brings the ground to the cutout. so thats getting changed once i get some more brackets.

Happy now?:D

[Bigheadnc]

Good job Brian. Great pictures and a great collection.

[LostArt]

The collection is beautiful Brian. Where did the orange one come from? And in your "correction" for Swamp....is it snowing? Yeah, yeah, yeah...I'm from the south sticks..we don't see much of that down here. :D

[Hemingray Insulators]

The collection is beautiful Brian. Where did the orange one come from? And in your "correction" for Swamp....is it snowing? Yeah, yeah, yeah...I'm from the south sticks..we don't see much of that down here. :D


the orange one (Carnival) came from an antique shop near my uncles in indiana, and MAN is that a good antique shop. i also got the large light carnival insulator there, along with the dark purple, the hemi blue mickey mouse, and a few other good ones. theres another pyrex even bigger than the one on the shelf with the big ones, in carnival that i'm getting next time we go, now that i know how much money to bring lol. theres quite a few there, and pretty much i'm the only one that buys the insulators. lol.

and ya, it is snowing in the "Correction" pics and a little bit of frezzeing rain too. when i came in my hardhat hat about 3/4 of ice on it.

[Hemingray Insulators]

heres the latest pictures.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/1-27-07029.jpg

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/1-27-07027.jpg

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/1-27-07019.jpg

oh ya, the bottom pic was taken a while ago during wire stringin.

[Hemingray Insulators]

diggin by hand in the middle of winter is fun:rolleyes:
i put up the other part of the pole that the cops made us cut off because it "stuck out of the truck too far" and am makeing an insulator pole.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/1-27-07031.jpg

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[Hemingray Insulators]

pics from the ice storm we got a few weeks ago.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/1-27-07018.jpg

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[LostArt]

Egads! That looks cold! But, it's pretty. :D

Heh. I complained about the freeze yesterday morning. However, today it got into the 70's. It's crazy down here, you never know what you get. I do know we probably won't have a spring this year. Everything was budding out before yesterday.

[Hemingray Insulators]

Egads! That looks cold! But, it's pretty. :D

Heh. I complained about the freeze yesterday morning. However, today it got into the 70's. It's crazy down here, you never know what you get. I do know we probably won't have a spring this year. Everything was budding out before yesterday.


if you think THAT looks cold check out THIS. this is what we woke up to thismorning, and are supposed to get 12 more inches of snow tonight.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/1-28-07003.jpg

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[Hemingray Insulators]

and heres more. check out the pic of the driveway, that was taken right after i finished snow blowin. thats how fast its falling lol.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/1-28-07013.jpg

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/1-28-07008.jpg

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/1-28-07001.jpg

[LostArt]

Wow! Glad it's you and not me!:p

Those are great pics buddy! A couple of them are like Christmas cards. Really nice.

[mrnick]

DAMN!!! :cool:

Brian,
can I be your meterman if you ever become a manager of a power co :D

[Hemingray Insulators]

sure Nick, you can be my meterman.

Here is pics of the two insulators i just got for my birthday. My birthday aint till July, but my uncle in Las Vegas always goes to the insulator show there, and gets me an insulator or two for my birthday, and sends them to me early.

the Honey amber is made by the dominion glass co in canada, and the green one made by the california glass insulator co in where else, California.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/insulatorpics002.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/insulatorpics001.jpg

[PA BEN]

Herm. whats a good book or web site on insulators? I have a few old insulators and would like to know what I have.:cool:

[Hemingray Insulators]

I got a price guide for them if they are glass, sorry, couldn't help ya much if its porcelain. site i go to is www.insulators.com, but it doesn't have much about how much they are worth.

Hey Swamp, there is a new 2007 price guide comin out at this national in orlando, and if we go i'm getting one. I'll let ya look at it, but don't look near the back. ya might have a heartattack when you see the price. lol. last years national an insulator sold for $22k LOL, now who in the right mind would spend THAT much on an insulator i don't know, but i'd like to find one of those lol.

[Hemingray Insulators]

hey man, you gonna be suprised when i tell about these pieces. i dug these at the Hemingray plant. the 2 part of purple insulators. if those were completed they'd be worth $10,000-15,000 each, not because they are purple, but because of what is writen on them, now you cant tell completly what was embossed on them but theres enough glass there to know this was a factory screw up in the mold letering. the clear/ white one. that is a CD 238.1, experimental insulator. never went into production. unfortuneatly its missing about 1/3 of the rear skirt. lol, but man if only you cold be at the hemingray plant with me, you could spend days there. there been insulators found that were experimental that were whole and have went for over $10,000 so i think its only a matter of time before i find somethin lol. we go to dig the old site every time we go to my uncles in indiana lol.

now with the mickey mouse i'm gonna take a gander and say that you've taken at least a few down if not a bunch seein as where ya used to work. nowadays in that color blue (its called hemingray blue) they're worth about $50 each lol.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/insulatorpics3-2-07028.jpg
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[Hemingray Insulators]

some more.

purple BGMCO i found in an antique store. i didn't know it at the time, but this is one of the more valuable insulator in this style. most purples this shape are worth around $50-75. well, the price on it was $58, which i though was a fair price, when i got home and looked it up in my old 2003 price guide i about fell over, it said it was worth about $500. i had an offer on it for $520, but i wanted to keep it in my collection for a little while. seein as i only had it 3 days when i got the offer on it lol. lets see how much of an investment it will be in 5 or ten years lol.

Ya see insulators is pretty much MY TYPE of stock market lol. they never really go down in value, unless a bunch of a uncommon type is found, but rather they steadily increase in value. LOL

the dark red amber Hemingray 19, also an investment. got it off ebay for $45 and i could sell it now for over $150, but i think i'll keep my insulators for now.......til i start findin more than one of em lol.

bet at that show you gonna see some insulators you used to have that youda wished you'd kept lol.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/insulatorpics3-2-07012.jpg
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http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/insulatorpics3-2-07006.jpg

[Hemingray Insulators]

heres some more. one is an olive amber LOWEX D512, and a dark orange amber Hemingray D-512. Lowex was Hemingrays response to Pyrex, Lowex meaning LOW EXpansion LOW EXpense. the other is an early Light lilac Hemingray #9 from the 1890's. Most insulators were not puple when they left the factory, but clear. Maganese was added to the glass batch to get rid of the color so it would be clear. but after a few months in service, a chemical reaction occurs with the sun turning the insulators purple. the more maganese used the darker the purple.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/insulatorpics3-2-07009.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/insulatorpics3-2-07008.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/insulatorpics3-2-07007.jpg

[Hemingray Insulators]

more. these are quite common, only being worth about $10 each, but neat to me, these are some of hemingrays older styles from late 1890's to early 1900's
Hemingray WU 5, Hemingray #4 and HGCO patent may 2 1893. this on is worth a bit more, because of the "prismatic" embossing, and because of how the upper wire groove overhangs the skirt by a little. its called the transition style because it was produced around the transition of Hemingray marking insulators H. G. CO. for Hemingray glass company, to just marking them hemingray.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/insulatorpics3-2-07018.jpg
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[Hemingray Insulators]

More. one is a hemingray 55 in blue, used as a transpositon for telephone, one marked patent dec 19 1871 is made from 1871 to 1872, and one is marked paten may 2 1893, this one if you look close the "A" in may is actually and upside down "V"

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/insulatorpics3-2-07020.jpg
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http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/insulatorpics3-2-07013.jpg

[LostArt]

Those are really nice Brian. What a wonderful collection of history....not to mention how "purty" they are! :D

[Hemingray Insulators]

Thanks for the Comenton my Collection LA.

heres a few pics from today, on my line. anyone wanna send me 3 more poles, some arms and #4 ACSR?:D

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/climbing3-3-07005.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/climbing3-3-07004.jpg
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[Hemingray Insulators]

heres some pics from today............some girls at school came to take pics for the yearbook lol :D for the section on what students do in their free time:

oh ya, and clive looky at how long the gotee is getting, parents are gettin on me because now its almost longer than the hair on my head.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/climbing3-13-07002edited.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/climbing3-13-07003-1.jpg
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[Hemingray Insulators]

some more pics the girls took:D

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/climbing3-12-07001edited-1.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/climbing3-13-07003-1edited-1.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/climbing3-13-07002-1edited.jpg

[Hemingray Insulators]

heres the latest pics.

BTW that real poles gonna finally be a DA after i raid my pile of arms at my uncles lol. and probably have some #4acsr for the line finally.

do ya like the arrestor better this time swamp? :-)

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/mywork3-29-07022.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/mywork3-29-07019.jpg
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[Hemingray Insulators]

well, just got back from spring break saturday and got some pics. the weather turned nasty before i got a chance to take senior pics on a pole, because the the day it was nice the camera was forgot in the truck which was about 2 miles away lol. so i got piccs of lines and stuff. got another carnival insulator at the antique shop. the bigest single piece of glass i've got now.

we went to indiana to my uncles, kentucky to do some elec. work at my cousins and ohio for the cincinatti reds game.

the pic of the insulator i got is the second from the left in the big insulator row, the other is of my "colored" insulators all together.

other pics are of the 345 or 500KV line on the way to my unlce, and a new line they are puting into a substation on steel poles

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/mywork3-29-07002.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/mywork3-29-07022-1.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/mywork3-29-07018.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/mywork3-29-07019-1.jpg

[Hemingray Insulators]

these pics were taken in kentucky. the one of the powerplant is on the ohio river, but is indiana. the other two pics were taken outside the hooters in kentucky where my cousin is the manager lol. one is of a 3 phase overhead pot (which i saw quite a few of) and the other is what seems to be a conventional pot with no cutout. i saw a lot of 2 bushing pots with an arrestor on the tank and a lead to a hotclam. even 3 phase banks with no cutouts. thought it was a bit odd. all the CSPs i've ever seen had a fuse with 2 loops on the lead. so i'm not sure whats going on there lol.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/mywork3-29-07008.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/mywork3-29-07007.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/mywork3-29-07006.jpg

[Hemingray Insulators]

theses 2 pics are of a changeout job i saw on the way home. wished they were workin when we went by tho so i could meet em lol.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/mywork3-29-07013.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/mywork3-29-07012.jpg

[Hemingray Insulators]

heres some more pics, these are from the Hemingray Glass company in Muncie, IN building is now owned by a bridge construction company. the other pic is of a train on the tracks that run trhough my uncles property.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/mywork3-29-07009.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/mywork3-29-07016.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/mywork3-29-07014-2.jpg

[Hemingray Insulators]

i know have another section of pole. lol. i wanted the top of the pole, but wound up with about 10' of the butt of the pole lol. so now i can sag the line without pulling over the end pole lol. the pole i replaced is where the big fat pole is, and i just dug up the old 2x4 pole and temp guyed it in all directions, made the hole bigger, set the "new" pole and tamped, and transfered the wire.


http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Tshooter/mywork4-22-07010.jpg
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[LostArt]

Boy it looks GREEN there now Brian. Is it getting warmer up there?

BTW, your work looks good....but WHAT do I know! :D

[Hemingray Insulators]

ya, its gettin warmer, lately its been in the 70s

[PA BEN]

Ever seen one of these? I have no idea of what kind of insulator it is. It has one hloe in the side.
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s276/PABEN07/100_1699.jpg
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s276/PABEN07/100_1698.jpg
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s276/PABEN07/100_1697.jpg

[Orgnizdlbr]

Neat looking PA, where did ya find that baby?

[Hemingray Insulators]

haha, sorry PA but thats not an insulator. its an ash tray that looks quite similar to an insulator. there would have been some type of plug that fits in the bottom to keep the ashes in it, when it was emptied you'd just pull out the plug..........where you find that? at an antique stor advertised as an insulator?

[Orgnizdlbr]

haha, sorry PA but thats not an insulator. its an ash tray that looks quite similar to an insulator. there would have been some type of plug that fits in the bottom to keep the ashes in it, when it was emptied you'd just pull out the plug..........where you find that? at an antique stor advertised as an insulator?


HMMM, That's interesting Brian, it had me fooled!!:eek:

[Hemingray Insulators]

hehe, it would have fooled me too if i had not heard about it from a collector before.

[PA BEN]

The hole in the side isn't even a 1/4 inch. Kinda small for ashes.:eek: Maybe the collector was pulling your leg you know "Get way from me kid you bother me":eek:

[Hemingray Insulators]

ya i'm sure...........but now that i read this page: http://www.nia.org/notins/nons1a.htm
mabey the ashes went in the big hole lol. :rolleyes:

[PA BEN]

It looks like I'm not the only one who thought it was an insulator:eek:I wonder if it's worth anything?

[PA BEN]

All I can say is, there were NO inside threads, and I ain't never seen an insulator, that was "pounded" on a pin.

The funky color was a complete Not. And the hole in the side would be like havin a hole in the bottom of your bucket. None of this translates as "Insulator". Besides, the size alone would make it only telegraph, to EVEN have a "Chance" of bein an Insulator. It's probably more of a "Stub out" than an actual ashtray. Is there a cork in the bottom?:p

It sure is "Cute" though Ben.;)

Look at the web page Hemi posted:cool:

[Hemingray Insulators]

well, the type of insulator is called "fog bowl" but as for the copper cup?? ya got me, never seen or heard of one. i can ask around though and get back to you:)