Odd Kiffle, Photo No.2

By Brent Burger; posted June 8, 2002

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20 years before the hobby decided to call these "suspension" insulators, we called them "kiffles" - just made the name up! Here is a series of shots of a type that only 2 or 3 are known. I never could find whole ones. Originally, I was finding REALLY smashed ones, and thought they were a multipart ( "flappityback" ) and that tiny inner skirt was causing some serious head scratching!

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