RARE INSULATOR FOUND ON BEACH DIG

[CODD COMMANDO]

Hi everyone
Just joined looks a good site !
I am a member of a small group of digger"s from the North Midlands and Wales in the uk.
I thought I might put the picture"s on of some bottles and items we found on a beach dig we are doing on and off
weather permitting, and the time of writing this there are 80mph winds and extremly high rough sea"s .

The insulator is a extremly rare Reads 1858 Insulator which recently was sold to a prominant U.S. collector.
The first picture is as it came out of the 1900 refuse site that had been coverd by the sands of the windswept coast of North Wales.

 

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[Gypsy Heart]

Very cool find and welcome to TNet
Looking forward to seeing other finds of yours!

 

[hollowpointred]

very very nice find!

 

[CODD COMMANDO]

Many thanks Pearl here are some pictures of other finds off the site

Rare blue top William Hill ginger beer

Liptons tea enamel sign

some of the types of bottles encounterd on there

rare soda syphon coaster circa 1890

 

[CODD COMMANDO]

Here is how it looked when first dug!

I nearly left it behind.
The artifactes it was found with

A rare ladies skin cream ointment found the next day

The great thing about this site is that after a big storm there is a rich harvest of goodies to be found on the beach not just bottles but coins and military badges [there was a miltary fort here from 1790-1945 now totaly gone ].Their will be more of these insulators on here they formed part of a miltary telegraph laid in 1859 to replace a mechanical semaphore system that ran over a 150 miles!

 

[CODD COMMANDO]

any idea where it was found?

 

[WhiteHunter]

Nice To see another UK Members hope to see more soon

 

[dgaughan]

wow that is a very cool insulator congrats and hh