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 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.

My third post is a follows:

CD-112 S B T & T Co (Center Embossed) (No Periods) Powder Blue Note: All the center embossing CD 112's had readable, but weak embossing.

I would guess that maybe 5% of this insulator dump were CD 112 S.B.T &T either skirt or center embossed keg style insulators. Most were broken or badly damaged. About 75% were lower skirt embossed and 25% were center embossed CD 112's.

The fourth post shows both the CD 112 S.B.T & T.Co. skirt and centered embossed insulators side by side. [id=606517807]