1999 >> May  

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Three Decades of Memories -The History of the National Show Glass Commemoratives

   

   

The Commemorative Originators, Frank and Margaret Miller

(Part III)

The "Turn" and Glass Production

Glass production time is purchased in "turns." A turn is a four-hour period of time. The 1970 and 1971 runs were, of course, a very small ...                    [more]



   

DORA IRENE HARNED

   

   

1926-1999

It is with deep sadness that I am writing about the death of a hobby pioneer, magazine editor, loyal friend, and a great lady. Dora Harned passed away from lung cancer at her home in Chico, California, on 26 March. She was 72. About a ...                    [more]



   

Three Decades of Memories -The History of the National Show Glass Commemoratives

   

   

The Commemorative Originators, Frank and Margaret Miller

(Part II)

Production Colors

The production colors from 1977 through 1984, 1987, and 1989 through 1999 were all chosen from the tested production colors used by the Mosser Glass ...                    [more]



   

Porcelain Insulator News

   by Elton Gish

   

In the last PIN column (CJ: March 1999), Bob Kay reported a white U-400B with under-glaze ink "Line Material" and "Triangle M" markings. After reading that report, Stanley Klein (NIA #5372) reported that he has a white U-399B with the same double marking (black under-glaze ink). In addition ...                    [more]



   

EVELYN SOFIA MILHOLLAND

   

   

1904 - 1999

Evelyn Sofia Milholland was born in Beloit, Wisconsin, on March 15, 1904. She had been in poor health this past year and died in Tacoma, Washington, on February 22, 1999. She married Marion Milholland in 1968 and became his partner ...                    [more]



   

What Goes Up, Must Come Down!

   by Eric Johnson

   

"Mama mia.. . che bella!"

In early August of 1996, I was helping my Aunt Diana move some things from an apartment in Florence, Italy, when the phone rang. It was my friend Giuseppe, informing me that he had been able to obtain some CD 376.2's in a beautiful ...                    [more]



   

Three Decades of Memories -The History of the National Show Glass Commemoratives

   

   

The Commemorative Originators, Frank and Margaret Miller

(Part I)

Being an enthusiastic insulator collector, Frank Miller of Tulsa, Oklahoma, went home from the first national insulator meet held in New Castle, Indiana, in ...                    [more]



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