This post will start a thread of posts dealing with telephone insulators used in Georgia. During the period from 1968 to 1972, I was not able to locate any telephone lines which carried small "pony" style telephone insulators. In 1969 a friend that I worked with at Robins AFB, Georgia learned that I collected insulators. He had just gotten back from Viet Nam and was living with his parent on a farm North West of Cockran, Georgia. Apparently, Southern Bell started to replace their early telephone lines some time between the late 1950's and the early 1960's and had asked to use their farm woodlot to dump the insulators used on the local lines and the drops into the houses. I was invited to their farm to explore the 1,000's of insulators dumped in the pine woods on one end of their farm.

When I got to the farm, I could not believe how lucky I was. I was looking at a pile of insulators that was about 20 feet long, 10 feet wide, and about two feet high containing 1,000's upon 1,000's of insulators. The pile contained the following CD numbers: 101, 102, 103, 106, 108, 112, 112.4, 115 and CD 1085. Most of the insulators were common and most had damage, but I was able to find many good additions to my collection. It took me five weekend days to go through the pile. In addition to adding to my collection, I was able to obtain a good telephone insulator trading stock. In those days, no one bought or sold insulators - it was exclusively a trading situation. The OBX publication was used to develop contacts.

I will start my posts with the CD 1085 S.B. T&T Co. There were many dozens in the pile in shades of blue to ice blue-aqua. Most were damaged, but I did obtain at least a dozen that ranged from near mint to very near mint. The CD 1085 measured 4.0 cm high and 3.5 cm wide and is a very small spool "drop" insulator which was nailed to a house or pole. Please note in the picture that I included one that had most of the nail used to anchor this drop spool insulator to the house.