Displaying your collection may reveal connections and insights about your insulators and could bring you some recognition from those who see your display.  Besides displaying insulators at your home, there are a number of other possibilities including:

• At an insulator or bottle show
• At a library
• At your office

1.  Colored glass

• Colors of the rainbow
• Cobalt blues
• Depression glass
• Food colors: Mustard, honey, pea soup green, celery green, apple green
• Amber stripes
• Two-tone and three-tone colors

2.  Colored porcelain

• Colors of the rainbow
• Cobalt porcelain
• Green porcelain
• Striped porcelain
• Food colors: Butterscotch, caramel, chocolate
• Colors of a particular manufacturer
• What makes color in glazes?

3.  Insulators made by a particular manufacturer

• Hemingray insulators
• Brookfield insulators
• McLaughlin insulators

4.  Insulators that are of all one use

• Power insulators
• Railroad insulators
• Telegraph insulators

5.  Insulators that are of all one design

• CD 102 Ponies
• CD 121 Tolls
• CD 152 The Insulator of Kings and the King of Insulators
• CD 162 Signals
• CD 257 Mickey Mouse Insulators

6.  All one function

• Transpostions (Tramps)
• Dry spots
• No-tie designs

7.  Embossing characteristics

• Patent dates on insulators
• The Hemingray numbering system for insulators
• Shop numbers
• Those strange dot patterns on the Hemingray CD 152 [100]
• CD 128 Pyrex letter codes
• CD 145 H.G. Co. Petticoat Beehive mold letters

8.  Materials

• Glass insulators
• Porcelain insulators
• Wood insulators
• Composition insulators
• Rubber insulators
• Plastic insulators

9.  Type of insulator

• Pintype insulators
• Threadless
• Lightning rod insulators
• Wall tubes
• Aerial spacers
• Suspension insulators
• Multiparts
• Neon sign insulators
• Radio strains
• Spools
• House wiring knobs
• Commemorative
• Wire nuts

10.  Displays about a person associated with insulators

• Fred M. Locke
• Ralph D. Mershon
• William McLaughlin
• John S. Lapp
• William Twiggs

11.  Insulator hardware

• Pins
• Transposition brackets
• Crossarms
• Arcing rings and horns
• Anti-galloping devices
• Tie wires

12.  Cleaning insulators

13.  Insulator nicknames

14.  Drip Points on insulators: Round, sharp, and flat

15.  Insulator UFOs (Unusual Foreign Objects)

• Nails in insulators
• Rocks in insulators
• Big bubbles

16.  Underpours and overpours in insulators

17.  Go-withs

• Ashtrays
• Postcards
• Insulator boxes
• Other products made by insulator companies
• Insulators on postage stamps
• National show 1st day covers
• Business cards of collectors

18.  Paperwork

• Catalogs
• Advertisements

19. Insulator furniture

20.  Insulator art

• Art made with insulators (e.g., the "insulbug")
• Art showing insulators

21.  Crafts using insulators

• Candleholders
• Macrame plant holders
• Bookends
• Painted insulators
• Lighthouses
• Insulator trains
• Insulator stoves
• Stretched glass insulators (e.g., insulcats)

22.  Insulators used in a particular location

• Insulators used along a certain line (e.g., Niagara)
• Insulators used by a particular railroad
• Insulators of Australia
• Insulators associated with Chicago, Illinois

23.  Fake insulators

24.  Dating insulators

• Dated Lapp insulators
• Date codes on Hemingray insulators
• When where different embossings on Brookfield insulators made?
• Should you have a chaperone when you date an insulator?

25.  Radio treated insulators

26.  The evolution of insulator designs

27.  How to make an insulator

28.  Related collectables

• Lightning rod balls
• Lightning rods
• Lightning rod points
• Lightning rod weather vanes

29.  Do drip points work?

30.  How to find insulators

• Digging the Hemingray dump
• Insulators from dumpster diving at local utilities
• How to dig threadless insulators

31.  NIA National Show directories

32.  Insulators used on the bottom of telegrapher's chairs

33.  Crackle glass, dyed insulators and other eBay offerings