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Memories
Collector Vernon Fellows sent in a picture of an insulator that is one of his
favorites. He found this blue porcelain dead-end spool on the roof of an old
sawmill before it was demolished 20 years ago.
The location is of special interest to Vernon, as he worked for the lumber
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| | 2005 NIA Eastern Regional
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Editor's note: Lee Brewer prepared this report for Crown Jewels. Lee is going
to be the Eastern Region Correspondent for the magazine, reporting on shows that
he attends. We appreciate his volunteering to fill this important function for
us. Lee has also become all important ambassador of the hobby for youthful,
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| | Insulator Lighthouse
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Editor's Note: Vernon Fellows emailed the pictures on the following two
pages. Is the Brookfield insulator opposite some kind of CREB, or just the
result of ghost embossing? Vernon writes...
"The Lighthouse is supposed to be a birdhouse, only I plugged the hole
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| | Sidepin Profile
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Marv Collins
Retired educator Marv Collins of Colorado is one of the hobby's founding
collectors.
While living in Northern California in the 1960's, Marv began building the
outstanding collection he still owns. In fact, virtually every insulator in his
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| | S. F.
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| | By Frank Swies
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What's it mean and Where'd it come from
Glass insulators embossed with a simple S.F. have long been a curiosity among
insulator collectors. For many years, the S.F. embossing was believed to have
referred to San Francisco and there is some evidence to prompt this belief.
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| | Book Review: History of Bonneville Power
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Tower construction along the Columbia River in 1939 was precarious business.
Below, four men work on the a line from Bonneville Dam to The Dalles, Oregon.
Pictures on pages 4 to 6 are from a book about the history of the Bonneville
Power Administration entitled, "Power and the Pacific Northwest
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| | Foreign Insulators
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| | Submitted by Lis and Jim Bergman Anchorage, Alaska
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Verreries de Folembray Go-withs
Over the past few years we have had the good fortune to obtain several
interesting Verreries de Folembray go-withs. Some of these items were made by the Verreries de Folembray while some items were made by companies for the
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| | A Magazine for Collectors
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| | Photos from "Crown Jewels of the Wire," April 2006
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CJ In Color!
The following photos are from the April 2006
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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| | Canadian Forum
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| | By Robin Plewes
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This month's column has a few interesting bits and pieces to pass along with
regard to Canadian insulators.
The first is a true "whatzit". This item was picked up at a garage
sale last summer and is a bit of a puzzle. The glaze has a few fine stress
cracks in it and seems "deep", as though there were several
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| | Porcelain Insulator News
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| | By Elton Gish
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As promised in the last PIN, here are a bevy of beautiful blue Pittsburg U-202A's.
Joe Warmuth actually owns five of them, but the photo I liked best
only shows four. The one on the right is unique in that it has a nice mottling
of darker blue in streams from the top down as if that color was poured on
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