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| | by Marilyn Albers
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INSULATOR DISCOVERIES FROM GREECE AND AUSTRALIA
Once again we have a guest editor! This month he is Bill
Ogden (Virginia, Minnesota), who recently made a trip to Greece and saw all
kinds of good insulators. Unfortunately, he did not have success in bringing any
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| | The National Insulator Association Commemoratives
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| | by John & Carol McDougald
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WHEN WERE THE FIRST COMMEMORATIVES MADE?
Following the first national meet in
1970, Mr. Frank B. Miller of Tulsa, Oklahoma, had a mould tooled into the shape
of a threadless insulator to produce a glass memento for the annually held
insulator collectors' national meets. Beginning in that year, and every year
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| | West Office -- San Francisco
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(The following picture and text are
reprinted from the January-February 1983 issue of "The Information
Desk" with permission of Telephone Museum, San Francisco, California.)
The
old office was established in 1878 and was numbered among the first exchanges in
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| | Letters to the Editor
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Dear Dora,
I purchased a CD 145 recently. It has an H in
a circle on the top, but no other markings. It is Hemingray aqua, but larger
than the bar-bar no name Hemingray. Wonder if anyone else has uncovered one of
these.
Sincerely,
Jim Woods
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| | Porcelain Insulator News
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| | by Elton Gish, NIA #41
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The Imperial bushing pictured
below was first reported in this column April, 1981 on page 22. It is 12"
long and is incuse marked on the wide center ring: IMPERIAL 116597
There is a
second Imperial bushing known (pictured 2nd) that is much smaller. It is
5-5/8" long and has an incuse marking below the wide central ring:
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| | The Early Years of Our Hobby
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| | by Charlie Allmon
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Who was the first insulator
collector? When did he (or she) start collecting, and what has become of the
most valuable items contained in that collection? These are marvelous questions
to consider and let your imagination take over.
Maybe we visualize a foreman for
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