Sievert Collection: Porcelain Whatisit. Ans. Series Circuit Lamp Tester SOLD
By Colin Jung; posted August 5, 2017
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Per Chris Hedges: this is a Series Circuit lamp tester. They generally were located on an Arm by the RO Series Transformer.
You could also ground out the line to work on it via an insert.