While metal detecting around an old house in Louisiana, I noticed where one of the siding boards had pulled loose and I could see a couple bottles on the inside. I managed to retrieve them, and one was a 7Up bottle and the other I had never heard of before. It was a Try Me cola (I guess that...
Two years ago we took a scenic train ride out of Branson MO on an old track. The entire distance there were poles with dozens of insulators on each one. Whether they are still there or not I haven't a clue, but there were probably over a thousand that we passed.
I'm not much of a collector, some of the insulators had an "H" on them and some had a diamond, so I just combined them into a single mark. I did go on Ebay and buy some original pegs.
While rummaging around the attic I found a bag of insulators I got as a kid from a downed pole on our ranch. I thought it was a shame to just leave them in the attic so I made a display stand for some of them.
A lot of issues with this question. Problem #1 is that Millennials don't collect anything. My kids don't even want the family photo album. Problem #2 is that the group that does collect is getting older and smaller. Every time a major collector dies it dumps a large amount of items on to a...