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From azcentral.com

Turns out there's quite a collector's market for 100-year-old glass electric insulators.

One such item, purchased for peanuts at a garage sale, netted $10,313 on eBay recently. It's not diamond-encrusted, it wasn't owned by a celebrity and there's no vision of the Virgin Mary involved here.

Phil Unrine and Jeanie Quimby came up with two of the insulators, one ceramic, one glass, for $5 for the pair. Quimby thought she could make a buck - posting the glass model with a starting price of $5.99.

Just a few hours later, she checked to see how it was doing - and found 10 urgent messages from collectors, telling her that the glass insulator dated to the 1890s, was extraordinarily rare and listed in price guides at up to $10,000... Entire Story Here