| | MAC's Believe It Or Not!
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One of the objectives of many new insulator collectors is to "get one of
everything." I have to admit that even after I had been collecting for
about two years, I still thought it would be possible for someone, even if it
wasn't me, to amass a complete collection of insulators. That was about twelve
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| | Searching For Insulators... In Summer
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| | by Eric Halpin
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This is the third of four seasonal stories which will be submitted to Crown
Jewels over the next year. They are based on true experiences that have occurred
to the writer during the last ten years.
A summer search is much like a winter search in that special preparations are
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| | Walking The Lines
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| | by Dave Kingston - Baltimore, Maryland
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One warm Sunday early this year, I managed to talk Tom into going out looking
for insulators. Now, Tom collects, but not seriously. We went first to a small
flea market east of Baltimore and didn’t find anything. We then went across
the road and walked the B&O railroad since they had been replacing some
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| | Rhonda, The Heavy-Set Signal
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| | by H. G. "Bee" Hyve
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Hi. My name is Rhonda. I'm a sage green California CD 166, and I'm a little
bit overweight. But before I get started on my story, I'd just like to say
something to all of you other Rhondas who may be reading this; I'm not talking
about you at all.. I'm talking about ME!
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| | Bicycle or Bicycle Rack Sign
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| | by Hans Kettenburg
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The porcelain enamel sign in your collection may be a Bicycle or Bicycle Rack Sign.
Many signs in a collection remain a mystery as to their use or purpose until,
as in the above case, a company sign bulletin surfaces describing the very sign
you own. In another instance, a sign is identified by use of an old photograph
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| | Porcelain Insulator News
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| | by Elton Gish, NIA #41
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Starting this month we will no longer use the long familiar pole line drawings
for the Porcelain Corner page. These drawings have been supplied by Robert
Winkler for the last several years. Robert has spent many hours making detailed
drawings of various pole line construction styles from early years to the
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| | Telephone Company China
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| | by Jack Snyder
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Lets clarify something right now, this article does not concern the telephone
company in China. But rather china in the telephone company. Huh??
You know
cafeteria china (and silver) used in the lunchrooms of your local phone company.
In the not to distant past the phone company provided a place for employees to
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| | Varieties of Lynchburg Glass, Part II
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| | by Dennis Bratcher - Oklahoma City, OK
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Part 2: The CD 112
As noted in Part 1, the Lynchburg Glass Company struggled to show a profit
throughout its short history, in fact, struggled just to break even! One of
Lynchburg's tactics for reducing overhead was to reuse secondhand insulator
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