Strange collections...

Originally Posted by Pookie-poo

Lola really does look like the picture of Pearl in your signature photo! Does Pearl have beautiful chartreuse green eyes too? (Lola's always look yellow in pictures, but they're a lovely green color in natural light!)

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I wouldn't say Pearl's eyes are chartreuse -- a little more toward the blue side of green than the yellow. But both our girls are beautiful!

Originally Posted by sherral46

You need to go to ebay.I was just there they have tons!!!All colors,sizes,shapes

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AUGH! Don't get me started -- if I go to eBay, it should be to SELL, not to buy! I'm guessing I have something on the order of 800 insulators, almost all glass, with just a few specimen porcelains and polymers. In the immortal words of Roberto Duran, "No mas! No mas!"

Originally Posted by taterbug

The one on the left is for an electric fence and I'm not sure about the other three. Power lines, I suppose, but I think they're awesome, especialy the little glass one.

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Very cool! Your little glass one is what my insulator collector buddies call a "radio strain" -- I believe they were used to interrupt the guywires that tether a pole on which electrical lines were strung, so current couldn't follow that path.

The brown one may be what's called a "house insulator" -- I think it was screwed into the side of a house to carry the cables at a safe offset. And the white ones look like they might be mine insulators, used to carry lines for light and power underground... but I'm not sure. (Generally, porcelain is newer than glass, and I know much less about it.)

Anyway, I love radio strains -- I have a couple of tiny green ones maybe two inches long, and several clear ones that are 10 to 14 inches long! Isn't it fun collecting such bizarre things?

Yes it is fun!! And thanks for the info, especially on the glass one! I've tried to research it and ask around, but no one had any idea what it was!! I found it in a pasture field!

Oops -- Taterbug, I didn't mean to say that your electric fence insulator was actually a mine insulator -- including it with the other white one was an accident. I shouldn't try to post when my mom is talking to me!

Originally Posted by butzie

I collect dust

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i collect autographs, books, cat figurines especially cat wizards by Pena, and rocks, which my husband can't figure out why. he always says 'so what, it's just a rock.
and cats, of course. i have 9 of them

Cool! What autographs do you have?

This isn't weird but I collect wheat pennies and Candian coins.

I collect Carebears! I know, I know, Im too old for carebears! But I love em!! I have some from when I was a kid, and all the new ones! I tell my DH that Im getting them for the kids and then never let them touch em!!
Im too cheap to buy purses so I have hand me downs! Really expencive hand me downs, but hand me downs none the less! Lets see what else, oh yeah, kids, got 3 of them in 3 & 1/2 years... DVDS & VHS, I have a problem... I cant seem to stop buying VHS! I dont even have a VCR anymore!!

OHhhhhh I got a good one! NAIL POLISH!! I have some from when I was 12!! 13 year old nail polish!!

I still have all my My Little Ponies, and I collect wheat pennies too and other coins.

Originally Posted by CarolPetunia

Cool! What autographs do you have?

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mostly musicians. i have several by ted nugent, tesla, scorpions, ZZ Top, dio, michael schenker, UFO, uriah heep, queensryche, jethro tull, eric clapton, paul rodgers, lynyrd skynyrd, robin trower, gene simmons
david copperfield, gallagher, ali, jamie lee curtis, jennifer tilly, paul newman, bruce dern
and signed books by my favorite authors: george r.r. martin, robert jordan, dean koontz, anne mccaffrey, michael moorcock, john sandford, david eddings, clive barker

I collect zoo benders magnets (my goal is to eventually have an entire herd of giraffe on my fridge )

My biggest thing though is little handpainted wooden bobble head turtles- i'm big on collecting them!

one word

SMURFS! (yes the adorable little blue figureines, I've had the collection since I was 6 years old I add to it every couple years, but it remains in the closet until I have someplace to put it.

I also collect Celtic crosses I recived some very nice ones from my SS "Duchess15"

I collect books...yes I display books that I have read with pride, and I love growing my collection too