Insulators: Market Dominated by Serious Collectors

RINKER ON COLLECTIBLES
@ Harry L. Rinker
Editor of Warman's Americana & Collectibles

Recently, as I drove along U.S. Route 1 between Wake Forest and Henderson, N.C., I passed a series of railroad signal poles that still had glass insulators on the crossbars. The cross bars were within reach. The wires had been cut. Many ...                    [more]

Foreign Insulators

YES, YOU CAN -- AND PLEASE DO!

With a second edition of GLASS INSULATORS FROM OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA to be published soon, it seemed a good idea to repeat Jack Tod's instructions on how to make shadow profiles. Very likely, some of you have a foreign glass insulator ...                    [more]