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Popular Name:
Rams Horn
Material: Wood and iron
Condition: Excellent
Notes: Embedded
in buoy-shaped wood body by two nails.
Catalog Card
Description:
S. T. Van Choate's Insulator for Telegraphs.
Transferred from U.S. Patent Office, July 18, 1908. Patented April
4, 1865. No. 47,141.
Block of wood 6-1/2 inches long, flat at the lower side, round at
the top. An iron insulator hook is set in the block at the lower
side with a circular tin plate surrounding it. The shank of the
block, originally made to fit the hole in the telegraph pole, has
been sawed off.
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