| | Porcelain Insulator News
| | | by Jack H. Tod
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Dear Jack:
I just acquired a "MERSHON TYPE" U-945 (see CJ, Nov 1975, page 31).
It definitely looks to me like a Thomas item. It has the same construction and
dry press innermost skirt as the U-928 BOCH made by Thomas, same white glaze,
same smooth firing rests, same shape of middle bowl, same letter size and type
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| | | An Encouraging Word
| | | by John McDougald
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Hopefully my story will encourage all collectors to keep on looking for new
pieces of glass. Everyone dreams of finding that one "find" for
next-to-nothing. We have had our share of hoped-for dreams turn up nothing over
the past four years of collecting. Today, however, was a different story.
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| | | CD221 Whitall Tatum
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(re the CD 221 Whitall Tatum sold by Dee Willett at Berea)
Dear Dora,
We had a great time at the Berea, Ohio, show and are looking forward to the
Oroville show Oct. 23-24. I know this will also be a very good one, as it has
been in the past.
The insulator you inquired about is a CD 221 Whitall Tatum Co. No. 514,
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| | | Locke Specialty "pigs"
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Editor's note: The "pigs" mentioned above refer to another
"goodie" that changed owners at Berea. See write-up below.
This heavy, hand made sculpture created from porcelain shows nine pigs
sitting around a trough. This article could have been made to be used as a desk
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| | | Research Division
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Dear Dora:
Ref the insulator on page 32, Aug '76 CJ, here is the light you wanted shed
on the marking.
The insulator is Patent #520,602, May 29, 1894, Henry H. Luscomb, Hartford,
Conn. (As you state, this patent is shown in Brown's "Unique", page
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| | | Fry Glass Insulators
| | | by A. L. Rash
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I have traveled through many states buying insulators and going to insulator
shows. Many collectors have asked me to send a picture of the Fry Glass
insulators to Crown Jewels so they may see them.
So here they are, described left to right:
- Opalescent Signal, with a bluish golden tint near the edges, longer
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