MORE NEW INSULATOR FINDS - 
LET'S KEEP THEM COMING!

Collector Quenton Marty of Minneapolis, MN found a pair of small unembossed glass insulators while on a recent trip to Ukraine. Both examples are similar in profile yet not exactly the same. Both of them are just a little bit over 3-1/8" in height. He says these insulators are unlike any other styles he has found in Ukraine. They are made of a deep greenish-teal glass with thousands of tiny bubbles all through each one. When placed in a back lighted cabinet, the insulator on the left lets in the most light because it has fewer bubbles and other swirly bits of junk. Amber streaks can be seen through the skirts of both insulators, which of course makes them even more attractive. They don't have a CD number yet but I'm sure N. R. Woodward (Woody) will be anxious to see them.

A new insulator style from Ukraine.

Here comes another new glass insulator style from Hungary.

Woody has already assigned a number to the Hungarian insulator in clear glass and that number is CD 455. You've seen it in Crown Jewels of the Wire magazine and now you can see it again on the left in the picture. It is 3-7/8" in height and has a base diameter of 2-3/4". Collector Zoltan Drinoczy from Hungary was the first one to discover one like this but now he has found another one in his home land that's very much like the CD 455, yet not exactly the same. It appears on the right side of the picture. This new find is 4-1/4" in height but the base diameter is the same as that of the CD 455.

Zoltan's new find is similar to CD 455 but the profile is more slender and quite a bit taller. The glass color of this insulator is a very dark olive green but it looks like black glass unless it is held up to the light. Neither of these two insulators have any embossing so we may never know what company or companies produced them, but he is happy to have found these two examples. The mystery continues!