Letter to the Editor

Reprinted from "INSULATORS - Crown Jewels of the Wire", March 1977, page 68

In this issue of the magazine I have advertised a dispersal sale. This does not mean that I am giving up the insulator hobby. I will never cease to have an interest in and some active part in the hobby. A new book on Locke insulators is in the works; and after that I will try to publish other publications of some kind about insulators. 

I had planned on my porcelain collection being placed in a museum, but because of circumstances beyond my control this is not possible. Because I have no family who would wish to continue the collection, I have decided to disperse part of the collection. 

Several of the specimens from my collection of interest to western telegraph lore have been placed in the Telegraph section of the Pony Express Museum at Sacramento. And a few of the porcelain specimens will be added to the glass collection already at the Panhandle-Plains Museum at Canyon, Texas. 

Also, some of the insulators which have been in the Smithsonian archive are being placed on display in a Communication Exhibit.

Gerald Brown