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   1990 >> November  

Message to readers about contents for this month....

  

   

INSULATORS FROM "DOWN UNDER" (Australia, that is!)

   by Richard Edmonds

   

When I recently read the first issue of Crown Jewels of the Wire, I was surprised to hear about the insulators called CD 119 W. Brookfield - O'Brien's Patent, since a local collector, who is a friend of mine, has one of these insulators. When I asked him about it he could only tell me that these were very ...                    [more]



   

Bea Lines

   by H.G. "Bea" Hyve

   

Let's go to Muncie and Coolie land this tine for our interview, and that can only mean one place; Montana. Butte, to be specific. Therefore, our collectors must be Marvin and Vicki Miller.

In 1974 we had the pleasure of visiting the Millers, and on that same trip, ...                    [more]



   

The Fall Hikes

   by Gene DeVaux

   

The Fall Hikes by Gene DeVaux

As I sit here writing this story, I can hear the horn of a distant locomotive. It brings back memories of those cool fall days when I hiked down the railroad looking for insulators. 

Six years ago, when I was still living with ...                    [more]



   

Foreign Insulators

   by Marilyn Albers

   

CAROL AND MARILYN CONDUCT INSULATOR 
RESEARCH TRIP ON FOREIGN SOIL
PART II

On Monday morning, April 16th, Carol and I said goodbye to Ans Galesloot and her family in Utrecht, Holland, and began the 180 mile drive to Krefeld, West ...                    [more]



   

Insulator Collector Learns Bits Of History

   

   

From the Daily Record Ellensburg, Washington, April 16, 1990

By PAT WOODELL
Contributing Writer 

In the steep hillside, reaching above a tangle of overgrown brush and weeds, the abandoned telegraph pole held high a small, light purple treasure.

...                    [more]


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