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Collector Profile

   
   

Name?: Joe Egerer, age 68

Occupation?: Retired school teacher

Began Collecting?: 1970

Started?: I found insulators in trees; when I learned people collected them I began saving them myself.

Favorite insulator? I love them all, but do favor cobalt blues, ambers, ...                    [more]



   

Insulator of the Month

   
   

Starring Attraction

Here's a jewel from the collection of teenager Sean Green. Sean collects "junk in glass". In this case, an exceptionally large potstone makes this pretty Star signal a unique insulator. How do "rocks" like this get into the ...                    [more]



   

The Western Glass Manufacturing Co.

   By Mike Miller and Tom Katonak

   

PART I: THE BEGINNINGS

Over the years, several articles on the Denver glass companies operating out of the Valverde Glass Works have been published in the Crown Jewels of the Wire. Most recently, we've heard about the R. Good Jr. operation and the Western Flint ...                    [more]



   

Current Communication Values Amongst International Relationships

   
   

The sun had already risen, but, of course, he knew he would not see it for a few hours. He was always in the shadow of base P-3112 until around 9:30 A.M. during this time of the year. However, there was something different in the tone of the information coming his way. After what had seemed years, it appeared ...                    [more]



   A Magazine for Collectors

   
   Photos from "Crown Jewels of the Wire," June 2005
   

CJ In Color!

The following photos are from the June 2005 Crown Jewels of the Wire magazine. These have been provided by the publisher for those wishing to see a color rendition of the black and white photos ...                    [more]



   

Insulators Used by the Rogue River Electric Company

   Story By Howard Banks

Reprinted from "Crown Jewels of the Wire", June 2005, page 44

   

The Search

   

Late on a lazy, autumn afternoon in 1967 school teacher Charles Fox came to my house all excited with news of a power line running up the side of a mountain to the Granite Hill Gold Mine near Grants Pass, Oregon.

One of Chuck's fifth-grade students said he had been deer hunting with his ...                    [more]



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