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These objects are unidentified. If you know what they are, please let the author know!
"SNYDER's PATT. ELECTRIC INSULATOR" "SNYDER's PATT. ELECTRIC INSULATOR", 4" wide, 13/8" high, 18 oz, waffle bottom, smooth top cup, crystal clear. With a hand pointing to some zapping lines, there's no doubt it's an electrical insulator. Piano insulator? Purple glass fluid check? Mating glass surfaces are ground; glass ends have concentric ridges, rubber-hose style. Fluid check of some sort? Came from a power collection, now it's in an insulator collection, don't mean a thing!
 
Purple glass pole top/cap? This piece, embossed PATENT APPLIED FOR, has a wire loop with 4 eyes embedded in the lower rim (now mostly broken out); there are 4 radio strains attached to the eyes. Pole top cap? Glass is 6" tall.