Welcome To Brian's Glass Insulator Page

(Photo taken by: James T. Stover)

Sign My Guestbook View My Guestbook

A bit about me...

I am currently employed at Rasputin Music in Campbell. Our web site contains an online store if you happen to be shopping for your favorite music. I dress in gothic fashion-all black and a bit of white. The gothic style was popular around the time 1700-1800 and began to fade shotrly before insulators were produced. Just to put the connection to insulators into clear perspective, William Hemingray was born on 14 January 1790 in England and Robert Hemingray (his son and founder of the Hemingray Glass Company) was born on 22 June 1820 in Pennsylvania.

HOW I GOT STARTED COLLECTING

I remember my first two insulators were Hemingrays. A CD 106 (Aqua) and A CD 122 (Hemingray Blue). I can't remember how I decided to start collecting but I do remember what really got me motivated. I was visiting my aunt in the state of Washington in 1994 and I was bringing an arm full of misc. Aqua/Clear insulators to the register in an antique store when the man at the register told me that he had a purple one for sale. I had never seen a purple insulator before not even a picture of one. Purple is my favorite color and once I saw it I had to have it. It was a CD 154 Whitall Tatum Co. No1 in Purple. I paid him $18 dollars for it and it is in mint condition. It is still today one of my favorite glass insulators. After having bought my first Purple insulator, I knew there had to have been much more out there to come. From then on up to this day I am always looking for new insulators to add to my collection.

(my favorite insulator-H.G. CO. in royal purple) I'm currently 19 years old and I have been collecting insulators since 1994. I've gotten my insulators from Antique stores, Garage Sales, Thrift shops, Flea Markets, Antique Fairs, and of course Insulator Shows. I have enclosed a simplified insulator list of my collection (reference-McDougalds 1995 Price Guide).

MY INSULATOR LIST

CD 100 [030].....Surge.....Clear
CD 101 [050].....Brookfield.....Aqua
CD 102 [140].....Brookfield.....Light Aqua
CD 102 [060]....."Diamond".....Brown Amber
CD 102 [060]....."Diamond".....Light Green
CD 102 [060]....."Diamond".....Olive Green
CD 102 [010].....N.E.G.M. CO......Blue Aqua
CD 102 [010].....S.F......Green Aqua
CD 102 [050]....."Star".....Light Green
CD 106 [010].....Maydwell.....Clear
CD 106 [060].....McLaughlin.....Light Green
CD 108 [030].....Whitall Tatum.....Clear
CD 115 [020].....Hemingray.....Blue Aqua
CD 115 [020].....Whithall Tatum Co......Light Peach
CD 121 [010].....A.T.& T. Co......Aqua
CD 121 [010].....Brookfield.....Green
CD 121 [010].....McLaughlin.....Green Blackglass
CD 121 [010].....Good.....Light Aqua
CD 121 [010].....W.G.M. CO......Royal Purple
CD 122 [070].....Hemingray.....Hemingray Blue
CD 122 [020].....McLaughlin.....Light Green
CD 122.4 [020]...PYREX.....Clear (w/wire)
CD 128 [100].....PYREX.....Clear
CD 128 [010].....PYREX.....Off Clear
CD 129 [020].....Armstrong.....Clear
CD 129 [010].....Hemingray.....Clear
CD 133 [030].....Brookfield.....Light Aqua
CD 133 [100].....Brookfield.....Light Aqua
CD 133 [230].....Brookfield.....Light Aqua
CD 133 [020].....No Name.....Light Blue
CD 134 [030].....T-H.E. Co.....Light Blue Aqua
CD 143 [120].....Canadian Pacific.....Light Aqua
CD 143 [010].....C N R.....Light Aqua
CD 145 [010].....B.....Light Aqua
CD 145 [010].....California.....Sage
CD 145 [050].....H.G. CO......Clear (w/snow)
CD 145 [140].....H.G. CO......Sky Blue
CD 145 [090].....Brookfield.....Green Aqua
CD 151 [010].....Brookfield.....Aqua
CD 151 [140].....H.G. CO......Aqua
CD 152 [040].....Brookfield.....Olive Green
CD 152 [010].....California.....Smoke Purple
CD 154 [170].....Hemingray.....Dark Hemingray Blue
CD 154 [050].....Whitall Tatum Co......Peach
CD 154 [010].....Whitall Tatum Co......Purple
CD 160 [010].....California.....Grey
CD 160 [020].....California.....Purple
CD 162 [030].....Brookfield.....Aqua w/amber swirls
CD 162 [070].....H.G. CO......Aqua
CD 162 [070].....Hemingray.....Dark Red Amber
CD 162 [010].....Lynchburg.....Sage
CD 162 [010].....Maydwell.....Pink
CD 162 [050].....McLaughlin.....Sky Blue
CD 162 [010]....."Star".....Yellow Green
CD 162.4 [010]...No Embossing - Canada.....Aqua
CD 162.5 [010]...P.R.R......Aqua
CD 163 [010].....Hemingray.....Clear
CD 164 [010].....Maydwell.....Gingerale
CD 164 [080].....McLaughlin.....Light Cornflower Blue
CD 164 [160].....McLaughlin.....Emerald Green
CD 164 [160].....McLaughlin.....Light Green
CD 165 [010].....Hemingray.....Clear
CD 167 [010].....Armstrong.....Clear
CD 203 [010].....Hemingray.....Clear
CD 208 [040].....Hemingray.....Hemingray Blue
CD 213 [040].....Hemingray.....Aqua
CD 257 [040].....Hemingray.....Aqua

for more information on glass insulators on the net visit:

The Glass Insulator Home Page

Insulator Links

What are Impostulators???

The Rainbow Riders' Trading Post

Crown Jewels Of The Wire

The Hemingray Glass Comapany

The Dominion Glass Company

This page is updated periodically so, come back soon.
(Last updated: December 1, 1999)
This page has been active since July 20, 1997. Thanks for stopping by!

This page is hosted by Get your own Free Home Page