Red-glazed ceramic insulators were apparently produced for use along British 
railways (to distinguish lines carrying high-voltage electric power from the 
low-voltage telegraph/telephone lines) circa WWII. BUT ... these are far 
from desirable knapping material ... and post-date the time when aborigines 
and Apaches would have been going-about looking for such. An example can be 
seen at the bottom of this page:

http://teleramics.com/type/telegraph/terminator.html


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From: "geoff carver" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: Glass Insulators - Myth or Truth?


> there is a good collection of the australian ones at the pitt-rivers 
> museum in oxford; i don't remember any red ones, though, just transparent 
> green & white, and translucent white; how common is red glass anyway, 
> especially red glass insulators???
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> From: "JAMES MURPHY" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 2:53 PM
> Subject: Re: Glass Insulators - Myth or Truth?
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>> I've heard the story in re: Australian aborigines.
>