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   1996 >> December >> November Leftovers The Bird That Lost Its Stuffing  

November Leftovers - The Bird That Lost Its Stuffing...
by Carol McDougald

Reprinted from "Crown Jewels of the Wire", December 1996, page 9

I got in a hurry and left some of the “stuff” out of the November 1996 issue’s article “Radio Strains aren’t as bad as they sound!” Dan Howard had very specific information about the cover photograph and I forgot to include it in the article. Sometimes it doesn’t pay to work so many months in advance. I apologize to Dan and to you readers. Here comes the real “stuffing”....

A - L.S. Brach Mfg. Company, Newark, NJ, “Vis-O-Glow” neon tube doublet lightning arrester; B - Brilliant Glass Company, Brilliant, OH, peacock milk glass antenna insulator; C - M. M. Fleron and Son Inc., Trenton, NJ, cobalt blue glazed porcelain 6¼" stand-off insulator; D - Jewel Electrical Instrument Company, Chicago, IL, brown glazed porcelain doublet lightning arrester; E - Unmarked green antenna insulator; F - Cornish Wire Company, New York, NY, “Corwico” cobalt blue glazed porcelain doublet lightning arrester; G - L. S. Brach Mfg. Company, Newark, NJ, purple antenna insulator. The items date from the 1920’s and 1930’s.



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