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Dear Dora,
I am enclosing a photo of an insulator which I bought
at a flea market in Mass. recently. It is aqua, has a mold line running all
around and has a screw thread coming from the base. The approximate measurements
are: Length 5-3/4", width at base 2-1/4" increasing to 3" at
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Dear Dora:
I would be pleased if you could find the space to
print this letter in a future issue of Crown Jewels because I would like to let
people I've met in this wonderful hobby know that I'm very interested still in
insulators!
I've just received the January and February issues of the magazine,
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| | Porcelain Insulator News
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| | by Jack H. Tod, NIA #13
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Dear Jack:
The utility I work for
has had an interesting way of using the split knob types of "tree"
insulators. As I have sketched here, these were used for stringing the wire from
the pole to light fixtures over the center of the road. Old-timers here said
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| | Foreign Insulators
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| | by Marilyn Albers
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The Algoma Eastern Railway
A while back, in the December '80 issue of Crown Jewels there appeared in Jack
Tod's column the following letter from Terry Smith (Port Huron, Michigan)
inquiring about an insulator marking.
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