I thought the following information might be of interest to some of the threadless collectors.

I recently found two CD 701 threadless eggs within six miles of each other. Unfortunately, they were badly shattered having both been run over by a bulldozer in clearing undergrowth from around present open wire lines. They were found along the right-of-way of the old Virginia Central Railroad, now a part of the Chesapeake and Ohio division of The Chessie System. The location is between Hanover Junction (near Doswell, VA, where the C & 0 branch line crosses the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potornac Railroad mainline) and Beaverdam, Virginia. The eggs are both olive-green black glass and are Style F, the so-called "Confederate egg." The surface of each insulator is slightly pebbled in places, although they are not nearly as crude as some of this style and are completely free of any etching, the glass having a shiny, waxy look. This confirms other reports of this style of CD 701 being found in central Virginia (see Ray Klingensmith's excellent article on eggs in Crown Jewels, February, 1980, pp.13-28).

Along the same stretch of track a little south of Hanover Junction, I also ran across a nice unembossed CD 729.1 in blue (in better shape!) For the railroad buffs, this insulator was found in a railroad cut which was the site of a tragic head-on train wreck in the Spring of 1862, a collision between an eastbound special troop train (Confederate) pulled by the engine JEFF DAVIS and a westbound supply train pulled by the MILLBORO.

Too, along the same Virginia Central line between Richmond and Gordonsville, Virginia, I have found pieces of no less than 40 Leffert's ramshorns, although I have yet to come up with more than half the glass portion intact and have found no horns. I'll keep looking!