Need Help - Arizona Beehive Mica Electric Insulator???

[Arsenal]

I posted this on another forum and no one responded??

I found this amazingly well preserved piece in a wet, sandy area in a creek I have hunted artifacts for years. I have found the craziest things there, too, and this is one of them.

After being told it was an insulator, I did some homework. It is made with Mica and it very similar to the Arizona Beehive insulators. My questions range from why was an Arizona insulator in a Central Texas creek bed, am I even correct that this is what I think and how old would these be, or roughly??












The threading is so well preserved it could probably still be used. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks.

 

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[DCMatt]

According to the internet, that's what it is...

Mica beehive insulator:

 

[NOLA_Ken]

I have a pretty big collection of insulators in storage, but I haven't seen one of those that I can remember. I couldn't find much, but I don't know that "Arizona" means that's necessarily where they were made. Insulators were shipped far and wide, the two biggest makers in the early years were Hemingray in Muncie IN, and Brookfield in NY. but they are found all over North America....

As to how yours got where it was.... are there or have there ever been rail road tracks or telegraph lines upstream? Could be miles away, if a pole washed out it could go a long distance before the insulators got knocked off or the pin rotted away and they fell off....