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 fourth post is shows the CD 112 S B T & T Co (Center Embossed) (No Periods) and the (Skirt Embossed) insulators side by side. Note that there is a significant difference between the two insulators.

Another interesting observation - about three weeks ago I got a call from Dave Collins who lives near Cockran, Georgia. He has a wonderful collection of Southern Bell insulators which include several CD 1073 spools and CD 112 center embossed kegs. The point I want to make is that all of his center embossed keg's all have very strong embossing. I hope that he might post a few pictures of his CD 1073 spool as I suspect many of you have never seen this CD. I know that Hemingray made most of the CD 112's for Southern Bell; however, I wonder if other companies might also have made these insulators to order for Southern Bell.