1993 >> May  

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Advertising Through the Ages

   by Robert Stahr

   

Teats on the Petticoat

This month I am devoting the column to the Hemingray Glass Company and their historic patent of May 2, 1893. All of the advertising extols Hemingray's claim to fame -- "teats on the petticoat." 

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Patent Office

   

   

RALPH G. HEMINGRAY, OF COVINGTON, KENTUCKY, AND JAMES C. GILL, OF MUNCIE, INDIANA.

INSULATOR FOR TELEGRAPH-WIRES.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 496,652, dated May 2 1893.
Application filed January 3,1893. Serial No. 457,057. (No model)

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Patent No. 496,652

   by N. R. Woodward

   

Of all the patents relating to insulators, probably the best known is No. 496,652 covering the addition of drip points to the base rim. This month is the one hundredth anniversary of that patent, issued to Ralph G. Hemingray and James C. Gill. Literally millions of Hemingray insulators were made with the embossing ...                    [more]



   

Porcelain Insulator News

   by Elton Gish

   

This month we will devote this space to multipart porcelain insulators. This continues to be an ever growing part of our hobby, even though some have thought in the past that these "boat anchors" would never "fly" with collectors. Those of us that are devoted multi collectors manage to find room ...                    [more]



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