| | Exchanges, Kegs, Tramps & Fantoms
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| | By Ed Himmelwright
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Editor's Note: Retired from a career as a lineman, Ed thought he'd share
information on how certain styles of insulators were used. We've added some
photographs which are intended to help illustrate his text.
A buckarm pole was a pole used at intersections, mostly out in the country.
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| | Sidepin Profile
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| | By Michael Swanson
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Why I Collect Insulators
As with many insulator collectors, it all began in the 60's for me as well. I
always enjoyed road trips with my folks because it meant I would be able to gawk
at all the colored insulators on the seemingly endless procession of telephone
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| | Junk in Glass
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Whether you specialize in insulators
made by one specific company,
or
insulators of a certain shape (CD style),
it's always fun to find
items with
special character.
Jim Harlow collects McLaughlins
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| | A Magazine for Collectors
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| | Photos from "Crown Jewels of the Wire," December 2005
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CJ In Color!
The following photos are from the December 2005
Crown Jewels of the Wire magazine. These have been provided by the publisher
for those wishing to see a color rendition of the black and white photos
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| | More Great Finds From Our 2005 Visit to France
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This photo shows a giant noser made by ISOREX (Charbonneaux et Cie of Reims,
France). We found 5 of these beauties on an abandoned sub-station in the middle
of a small town. After a great deal of back and forth as to who had the rights
to the building, the Mayor of the town stepped forward and wrote us a letter
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| | Foreign Insulators
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| | Submitted by Jim and Lis Bergman Anchorage, Alaska Email: majestic@gci.net
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Verreries de Folembray News:
In April 2003 we returned from a trip to France with a very rare insulator.
The attached photograph shows an insulator with a very different embossing.
This
insulator is a rare Verreries de Folembray CD645 gingerbread mama that is base
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| | Swap Meet at the Insulator Ranch
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Something unusual happened at a swap meet in rural southern Oregon this fall.
About half of the two dozen people who showed up had never before attended an
insulator swap meet or show of any kind. Some were brand new collectors; others
had been collecting for decades but just hadn't ever attended any insulator
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| | Linemen Pic
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We don't know if these were the Wichita linemen.
But it certainly looks like
they were
willing, ready and able to respond
to line problems caused by winter
snowstorms.
Hmm. Wonder how many utility companies
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| | Crown Jewels Climbs to New Heights
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Bill Rohde and some climbing partners struggled for hours climbing up 14,162
foot high Mount Shasta in Northern California last summer. Then while
celebrating their successful ascent, Bill surprised them by asking to have his
picture taken with a couple of objects he had packed along with him.
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| | Insulator of the Month
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BUBBLES
Special Character!
Collectors almost always select an insulator with something going on in the glass when picking a favorite.
This CD 133.4 Hemingray product makes the grade with those huge bubbles.
This is another pick from the collection of Sean Green.
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