Syd McNeely reports that a small number of CD 206.5 Harloes have been uncovered by bottle collectors in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Generally considered an eastern insulator, Syd says that to his knowledge this is the first reported discovery of Harloes in the western US.

The insulators found in Salt Lake are embossed slightly different. McDougald's price guide list three different embossing styles for the CD 206.5. But in all three cases, the embossing on the patent date side ends with "P2S". However, as shown in the picture above, the Harloes found in Salt Lake are only embossed "P 2 " under the patent.

In their "History and Guide to North American Glass Pintype Insulators", the McDougald's report that Morton Harloe conceived the idea for a new insulator design in 1899. He received additional patents in 1901 and 1902 as he worked to perfect his "no tie wire" design. Projections of glass at the top of the insulator were to hold the wire in place. 

So sure was Harloe that his insulator would be a success, that he founded the Harloe Insulator Company. Besides the Harloe patent CD 109.5 and 206.5 "no tie" insulators, the Harloe company produced CD 102, 112, 121, 145, 160, 162, 164 and 260 styles. All Harloe insulators are embossed with the words, "Hawley, PA", and a company logo which consists of an entwined "H. I. CO."

In addition to glass, porcelain insulators in the "no tie" concept were produced under the Harloe patents. However, the idea met with only limited success in either glass or porcelain. 

Harloe produced insulators in Elmer, New Jersey from March through August of 1903. The company moved to Hawley, PA in the fall of the same year. An $8,000 loan was taken out by the company in May of 1904. When the loan wasn't paid, the property was sold at a Sheriff's auction in 1906 for the sum of $60. 

Harloe CD 206.5 insulators are valued in today's Price Guide at $4,000 apiece.