Nice clean up Barcalo is a good tool. . A dash of Blaster goes a long way and you're lucky the screw came out pretty easy. Looks like it's working fine now. Good job!
H.G. CO. was Hemingray & Gill Co which later was renamed just Hemingray. Definitely telegraph and dates around 1890ish to 1900 based upon the prism embossing. The aqua color is still fairly common, but find on in true green and you've got a very scarce piece. The May 2 1893 is the patent date for drip points. Nice looking piece!
I figured it was a unique piece... I also have a Hemingray No. 9 insulator, which I believe is a telegraph insulator. Very narrow for a high voltage insulator.
@@Forgotten-Era The Hemingray No 9 and 12s were my specialty. They are a low voltage insulator that was indeed telegraph used which was low voltage as well as used on rural farm lines later on post 1900 for electrification and phone lines. They were inadequate for high voltage use because of their small size and having no inner skirt. The inner skirt was designed to give more distance from the wire to grounding out on the pin and arm. The Hemingray No 12 could also be used as a transposition insulator to break cross talk, hence the lower wire groove. They could cross the wires at one pole instead of using drop brackets and crossing the wires between 2 poles. The drip points were intended to hasten the moisture from rain, snow and fog to drip off the insulator faster, but in the end they were found to really not have any effect and were eliminated.
I learned something more... I also have recovered a clear glass Hemingray 42 from a toppled pole at the abandoned Kingsbury ordinance plant in Indiana. I'm pretty sure it carried the voltage that helped manufacture ammunition during WWII. A very unique piece.
@@Forgotten-Era What is the date code on the rear skirt? Should have a number, a dash, and numbers and possibly dots (periods). E.g. 9-40. This would equate to mold #9 which was made in 1940 and each subsequent dot (period) represents each year afterwards that the mold was used, hence 9-40. = mold #9 and this specific insulator was made in 1941.
not sure right now because it is currently in a display case at my local library. by the way what kind of German gun uses 8mm. rounds with a full rim, like a shotgun shell would have. the bullets I have were manufactured in 1938, odd year to have Third Reich symbols... I was thinking an old Mauser Karabiner 98. but the striper clips are designed to allow one bullet to be removed at a time, so I was thinking a sniper rifle.
