by speleausmining » Fri Dec 02, 2011 1:25 am
Having a day off I decided to visit one of the shops in town that occasionally has insulators I found a couple including a Star Pony and got to talking with the owner about insulators. Then he said the magic words; "If your interested I have boxes of them upstairs". Well what more encouragement did I need. Once we got upstairs he showed me the boxes then left me to select the insulators I was interested in. As I began to look through the dusty boxes my jaw droped. The boxes were full of beehives (CD 145) with 2 or three beehives to every hemingray or common telephone insulator. The first few I pulled out were the old familiar but scarce G.T.P. Beehives in various shades of Aqua but soon different embossing began to be found G.T.P. Tel. Co., T.C.R., E.D.R. to name a few. Then I pulled out another G.T.P., paused and looked at it again, it seemed really dark under the dust, wiping it off it WAS dark and not just really dirty it was Brookfield Green! Then another Brookfield green one but with snow, One with Potstones, one with a blonde streak through the glass, and One that was approching 7up green. At least an hour later I headed back downstairs with my prizes every dark G.T.P. with potstones or snow as well as the one with the blonde streak and a couple approching 7up Green. Theres still more boxes to go through and I plan on going back for a second look. Below is a pic of a few of them. My photos are not the best you cannot see most of the snow and the colours are not quite as nice as in person. While certainly not the most exciting find this was the first time I had seen a G.T.P. in any color other then aqua and that was exciting. Also new to my collection was the T.C.R. and E.D.R. markings. If anyone is looking for a G.T.P. for their collection in a colour other then aqua let me know I am only too happy to share the find.
- Attachments
-
- Green G.T.P.'s
- GTP's.jpg (198.58 KiB) Viewed 9416 times