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Crown Jewels presents the CALIFORNIA family this month. Included in this
issue are 65 color pictures of insulators manufactured by the California Glass
Insulator Company. Additionally, we'll present historical information about the
company, examples of their advertising (circa 1912), information about where
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| | Mischievous Bears Wreck the Telegraph Lines Up In the Maine Woods
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----Fort Wayne News, 9-30-1899
Telegraph wires, whether strung on poles or laid along the bottom of the sea
are harmless, inoffensive things and by no means attractive in appearance. Yet
they have numerous enemies, in the animal world as well as the vegetable world.
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| | Italian Insulator Collector's Association
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In the photo are Paolo Salucci, Nora Coppo, Guido Boreani and Nora's husband
(kneeling). This was the first meeting of the Italian Collector's Association in
the home of Nora Coppo of Genova, Italy on June 9, 2002. As seen each collector
is holding a favorite insulator. Paolo is holding a Ginori unipart, Nora is
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| | Insulator Chess
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Dr. P. Quentin Tomich, of Honokaa, Hawaii, has found a way to combine two
popular pastimes... using insulators as chess pieces. Note the CD 206 'castle'
insulators being used, most appropriately, as rooks.
Dr. Tomich writes, "In the early 1970's I was fortunate and surprised to
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| | Insulator of the Month - A MATTER OF QUALITY...
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After photographing, or reviewing photographs of, dozens of CALIFORNIA
insulators for this month's feature story, this smoky amethyst CD 166 was one
of the standouts in terms of character. Laced with bubbles and foam and
stringers of milk, the insulator defies the California Glass Insulator Company's
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| | Left Coast Lines - News From The Western Region
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| | By Mike Doyle
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5TH GCSIC SHOW, YUMA, AZ
Riverside Park was still shrouded in pre-dawn shadows as Lou Pin-Man Hall
piloted his van down the winding tarmac below Yuma Territorial Prison. As more
light flowed from the dawn horizon into the early morning sky, anyone could have
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| | Foreign Insulators
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| | By Caleb Thimell
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I begin with an update on the tiny B TE S.G.D.G. No 1 cross top spool from
Belgium. Thanks to Lis and Jim Bergman for sharing the following additional
information. The "B te" is a French abbreviation for "brevete"
which means patent. The S.G.D.G. is short for "Sans Garantie Du
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| | A Magazine for Collectors
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| | Photos from "Crown Jewels of the Wire," May 2004
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CJ In Color!
The following photos are from the May 2004
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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