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Early Telegraph Insulators?
Or 20th Century Tree Insulators?
Generally recognized as 1850's era telegraph insulators, glass blocks
continued to be advertised in supply catalogs well into the 20th Century. Did
insulator companies like Brookfield continue to make them, or were they trying
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| | 7th Annual Chesapeake Bay Insulator Club Show
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The Seventeenth Annual Chesapeake Bay Insulator Club show took place on March
5th, 2005. If you live in North Carolina or any state North of there, this show
means Winter is over, Spring is on the way and it is SHOW TIME 2005!
As usual, the show was a sellout. If you want to do the show in 2006, return
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| | Sean Green's Eagle Scout Project
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| | by Mike Green
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Last August while doing a multi-day backpack with the kids into the Lost
Creek Wilderness we encountered a partially collapsed bridge at a large stream
crossing. It was about thirty feet across and the water was really moving. The
single rickety log that was left swayed and moved so badly that we decided it
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| | CANADIAN FORUM
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| | By Robin Plewes
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Bob and Bev Scafe hosted the first ever "Merritt in the Mountains
Insulator Show" and have been good enough to send in a show a show report
for those of us who wanted to be there, but couldn't make it for various
reasons.
The show was held at the Insulator Ranch in Merritt, B.C., May 28-29 in
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| | Carnival Jewels
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Michael Harris sent in this picture of three carnival glass insulators still
in use. His photo is dated March 29, 2005. Michael described the location as
being along Arizona state road 92, west of Bisbee. He sent photos of at least
three different poles each bearing three of these carnival glass jewels.
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| | Displaying Outside the Box
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Some collectors display their insulators in a lighted cabinet,
Others place them on shelves or window ledges.
Not collector Jim Decker of Tracy, California.
Jim displays his insulators on poles in the yard.
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| | MORE "ONEOFA'S"
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In the May 2005 issue of Crown Jewels, we featured a number of one-of-a-kind
insulators from the collection of Butch Haltman. A couple of other collectors
have submitted pictures of "one-of-a-kinds" they own.
Paul Ziemer sent us the picture of the CD 1003 glass block pictured on the
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| | Natrona Heights Show
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Lee Brewer submitted the pictures on pages 41 - 43 of the Western Reserve
Insulator Club's Allegheny Valley Insulator Show held in Natrona Heights, PA
last spring.
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| | Letters to the Editor
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Longtime Lone Star Insulator Club member Merwin S. Lodge passed away at his
home in Kerrville, Texas on June 3, 2005. Merwin, along with his late wife
Sarah, and their two children, Russell and Drucilla, were charter members of the
LSIC. Russell, who was severely disabled, had an extensive collection of
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| | Insulator of the Month
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AN ORIGINAL
Paul Ziemer describes this glass block and bracket as a
"one-of-a-kind". Found intact by tree trimmers in the Pacific
Northwest just a few years ago, Paul believes this is the only original block
& bracket known for a CD 1003. Glass blocks were initially used in the
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| | Kids Korner
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Meet Cover Artist Perianne Tucker!
I am 15, and in the ninth grade. I am in ballet, but also participate in the
sports, tennis and wrestling, at my school. I like to read books, and scrap book
with my mom. I also enjoy an occasional insulator hunt with my dad. He has
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| | Mixed-Up Mud Multipart
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David Adams writes, "I found an insulator the other day I feel is kind
of odd and it would go into the porcelain news section of CJOW. It's a
Westinghouse product with the top skirt in black marked "W" in a
circle as usual. But the rest of the skirts are in the very normal Ohio Brass
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| | BROOKFIELD CD 149
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In the early seventies near Albany New York, Karen and I had a sales table of
insulators at a Church meeting room. The swap meet was sponsored by the Capital
District Insulator Club. A very distinguish well dressed gentlemen approached
our table and introduced himself as William Brookfield. Said he was trying to
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