Glass from my younger years.

[Dug]

Thought I would throw these up for yall. Most of them are fairly common as insulators go but they hold significance for me as they were found by my brother and I over 50 years ago on one of our many expeditions into the wilds (then) of central Florida. We hauled them over 3 miles through woods in the summer heat in burlap bags while the horse flies had us but we were ecstatic with our treasures. Not shown are about a dozen that were casualties of the burlap bag journey but I will probably use those for an outdoors display. I just recently rediscovered them in my father's garage where my folks had lovingly packed them (and a butt load of early 1900s bottles) away for safe keeping.

Shown are before and after pics of soaking them in BKF for a few days then scrubbing them down with Mr. Clean erasers. A few had to be soaked in full strength Muriatic acid to remove some tannish patches of crud on them. A few will go into my bottle tumbler to remove some minor sickness.

Currently researching a project to mount them on 7/8 clear tubing with LED lights inside as a display.

 

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[glass half fool]

Looks like they cleaned up real nice . The story behind those insulators is where the value is .If you get them on your display show a picture of how it turns out .

 

[Bass]

Nice collection of insulators. If/when you get the display put together be sure and show us the end result

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

I love those old insulators. I always thought of making a chandelier out of some. Or even single ones with an L.E.D. to make pendant lights.