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Not a bottle but still pretty cool - 6/16/2008 12:34:49 AM    baltbottles   Posts: 968 Joined: 11/25/2002 From: Baltimore Maryland Status: offline A friend of mine who is a roofer by trade recently gave me this cool lightning rod he got off a house at work. Anyone on the forum know anything about dating these? Thanks Chris Attachment (1) _____________________________ Please visit my website at : www.geocities.com/baltbottles/index.html Post #: 1

RE: Not a bottle but still pretty cool - 6/16/2008 12:58:51 AM    aridice53   Posts: 150 Joined: 2/20/2008 From: Huntsville, AL Status: offline Sorry, I can't help you with dating it Chris, but, Wow, what a great friend!! That is really neat!! Char (in reply to baltbottles) Post #: 2

RE: Not a bottle but still pretty cool - 6/16/2008 2:15:38 AM    capsoda Posts: 8080 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Someone is bound to have written a book on them. They still make them and most look as if they were from the early part of the century. You can get the plain more modern ones but they lack character. Reggie Lynch has some on his site. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to aridice53) Post #: 3

RE: Not a bottle but still pretty cool - 6/16/2008 10:46:55 AM    Brains   Posts: 488 Joined: 9/2/2006 From: Hilliard/columbus ohio Status: offline i know nothing about lightning rods, but i know alot about lightning rod insulators!  Make sure your friend keeps an eye out for those to... _____________________________ Let me know when the telegraph companies want their hemingray-42's back! bryan (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 4

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