| | Meet Collector Craig Johnson
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Hello all. My name's Craig Johnson, and I'm here to confess to a deep, dark
secret. A secret that's been kept in the closet for a good twenty five years:
I COLLECT INSULATORS.
I've always loved insulators, but never knew they were on the web - until
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| | THE FLUID STORY
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(Caution - LARGE DOWNLOAD)
Once the capital of the Territory of Oregon, Oregon City
governed an area that today makes up the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho,
and the western portions of Montana & Wyoming. It was the "End of the
Trail"... THE destination for thousands of immigrants who in the 1840's
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| | Kids Korner - Insulators
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| | By Andrew Hendershot
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This year, I discovered what an insulator was. I have always looked at
telephone poles but never took any notice of them. This year at my school, Mr.
Lee Brewer came to teach my homeroom class. He had glass things all over the
room. Our class asked what they were and he told us all about them. Not everyone
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| | INSULATOR OF THE MONTH
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THREADLESS ON ICE
Dan Gauron takes advantage of a wintry scene to photograph some of his
favorite insulators: CD 735 Mulford & Biddles. These threadless date from
the mid-to-late 1860's, and were used on early telegraph lines throughout the
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| | Canadian Bostons
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| | By Jim White, Indianapolis, IN
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Preface
It might seem a bit of heresy for someone who had his/her collecting roots
from 1968 to 1978 firmly planted in Muncie, Indiana (one of the
"Homes" of Hemingray), as a student and staff member at Ball State
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| | The Hunt For Edward Klingel
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| | By Rick Soller
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Recently while looking over my shelves of insulators, I picked up the odd
porcelain piece pictured here. My records indicate I bought the piece in 2000
from Doug Williams on eBay for about $10. Recess-embossed on the unglazed bottom
is a block of text that reads, "E.L. KLINGEL." Another
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| | Purple Beehives
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| | By Jason Nickerson
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Early May of 2006, while awaiting my impending graduation from the University
of New Brunswick, I decided to stay in Fredericton, N.B. instead of returning to
my home town in Nova Scotia, to do a solid month of insulator hunting. I managed
to get out on several hunts and turned up nothing more than some common pieces
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