Featured Some weather vanes

Thanks for the heads up, appreciate it.

 

Point taken. Seems the glass parts could also be decorative finials:

http://www.oldworlddistributors.com/air-terminal-lightning-rod.html

 

Definitely!

 

I'm not the only misguided soul. I get far more images of the glass globes searching for lightning rod insulators than just for lightning rods.

 

Sorry, a top or bottom view would have helped.

 

Neat site! Wish I would have had the foresight to save the old ones I demoed on jobs instead of throwing them into the dumpster!

 

Chicago has a lot of things, both good and bad! But one thing Chicago really does have a lot of, is lightning rods! The old Sears Tower, still refuse to call it anything else, gets hit an average of 6 times every electrical storm!

 

Nice collection of truly old vanes. We see so many reproductions out there that it is nice to see a collection of old ones.