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| | by Gustavo Coll - Montevideo, Uruguay
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What you see in the picture below is a nest, painstakingly constructed by a
bird name "Hornero" (Furnarius rufus). The Spanish name could loosely
be translated as "Oven Maker".
The nests are made over several days
using mud and pieces of straw and its constructor manages, nearly always, to
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| | Thames Glass Works Insulator -- REVISITED!!
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| | by Kevin Lawless & Doug MacGillvary
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In 1975, the Skinner's Auction House, in Bolton, Massachusetts, sold at
auction one of the most celebrated collections of bottles in that hobby's
history - the Charlie Gardner collection! The late Mr. Gardner was a pioneer
collector of historic bottles and, as a resident of Connecticut, amassed some
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| | www.All Hemingrays Great and Small
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| | by Gayner "Ted" Armstrong
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featuring BILL and JILL MEIER
Whereas most of the collectors featured in these pages have multiple
decades of collecting under their belts, this in not quite the case with Bill
and Jill Meier. However, considering that they have been active in the insulator
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| | Showing Insulators in HAWAII
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| | by P. Qunetin Tomich
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As a resident collector in Hawaii since 1969, I have been disappointed that
the hobby has never really taken off. The other side of the coin is that
competition for finds in the field is nil. Collectors are few and scattered over
the islands. Yearly subscription to Crown Jewels of the Wire have run about 3 to
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| | Foreign Insulators
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| | by Marilyn Albers
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UNPUBLISHED PHOTOS FROM
THE W. KEITH NEAL COLLECTION
The collection of W. Keith Neal of Guernsey, Channel Islands, gathered
together over many years time, included some of the most rare and unique
insulators in existence. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with this
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