Organized by Jason Townsend, a number of collector participated in what may be the largest, to date, reunion of porcelain "no tie" insulators. Perhaps best known are the patent designs of Harloe and Purkey, but other styles were also on display. The concept behind "no ties" is that the design of the insulator holds the wire in place, saving time and labor for communications companies. It's tough to find even one Harloe (white porcelain above) at an insulator show; much less the several dozen shown here. 

Below, Porcelain Insulator News columnist Elton Gish prepares to photograph a group of ink-stamped Harloe's. He'll be writing more about this subject in a future column of Crown Jewels. "No ties" make up some of the hobby's most unusually shaped, and often, scarcest insulators.