I am really excited to send you these two pictures. I received this beauty in the "flesh" from a collector in Millville, New Jersey. It is an unlisted, and previously unknown, Locke glass insulator. It is 2-1/2 inches tall and 4 inches wide. The embossing on the front is inverted and reads:

PAT'D BY F. M. LOCKE
VICTOR
N.Y.

The embossing on the opposite side, also inverted and also on the skirt:

MARCH 31, 1914    FEB 2, 1915
OCT. 12, 1915

All three patents are Locke and are as follows: 

 (References include Gerald Brown's book, 'The Story of Fred M. Locke & His Insulators', 3rd Printing, June 1979, © Copyright by Gerald Brown, 1977. Gerald gives credit to himself and research by Jack Tod.)

The other information that I have on this little beauty is that it was presumably manufactured by the Whitall Tatum Company, but not put into production. It is clear flint glass with a tint of very light lemon yellow. It is a double petticoat similar in overall looks and shape to the CD 241 Hemingray-23. It will truly fit in well with my Locke collection -- not only my first clear or near clear Locke glass insulator, except for the all glass CD 342, #25; but presumably not known before, and possibly an unlisted CD.

I know nothing about how many were made, one or one hundred trillion, and frankly I don't care. It's mine, now.

Secondly, I recently purchased a neat little item from Jack Tod. It is the pottery insulator known as the Locke model, believed to be made by Locke himself in Fischers, New York, in his wife's oven, and it is known as the model for the Locke #1, U-939.

In the past five years I have written, literally, thousands of letters. I finally feel rewarded by obtaining these two above mentioned Locke specimens. Now, if I could just locate some of those other "little knowns" or possibly "one and only" or even one insulator stamped "IOWA", then I would find myself in insulator paradise.