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Dean Lommen, East Grand Forks, Minnesota
Dean says: I started collecting in 1969. It was the sparkle of the glass and
the lure of a great hobby that attracted me. My high school science teacher
asked me one day if I would like to go with him to get some insulators. That is
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| | NATIONAL - CD 154
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Bruce Konold, Eagen, Minnesota
Bruce says: I began collecting almost two years ago. I found a line of
Lynchburgs and I got hooked. My desire increased when I purchased some Dominions
and a two-tone Hemingray. Then it was off to Zicme's and whatever colorful, rare
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| | NATIONAL - Fancy Colors
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Terry Kornberg, Andover, Minnesota
The only thing more colorful than Terry's shirt, was his beautiful display of
colorful insulators.
Terry says: I've been collecting color for about six years now. I found my
first insulator when I was working as a telephone installer -- just a common CD
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| | NATIONAL - CD 152: The King of CDs and the CD of Kings
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David French, St. Paul, Minnesota
NIA Award for Specialty
The CD 152 style was adopted by Western Union as their standard insulator in
1911, replacing the CD 145. Around this same time, Western Electric (AT&T)
adopted it as their standard insulator replacing the CD 121. This was the first
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| | Y2K National Show Report July 28-30,2000
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| | by Carol McDougald
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"Heap big wampum exchanged between many warriors in the Hall of Tribes
at Thunderbird Resort in Bloomington, Minnesota.
Y2K Chieftains extremely happy
with number of peacock feathers brought for admission to pow-pow.
Big Chief
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| | NATIONAL - Just Another Afternoon Digging Insulators
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Justin Behrens, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Heartbreakers - That is the topic I chose for this display. Most of my
collecting has been done at a dump site where I have had a chance to find lots
of interesting pieces of glass. However, most are damaged and are not
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| | NATIONAL - Cleaning Your Insulator
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Russ Frank, McHenry, Illinois
NIA Award for General
There are may different ways to clean insulators. For just plain dirt you can
just wash it off with soap and water with a Scotch Brite or similar pad. For
sticker residue, a solvent like GOOF OFF (xylene) works well. But the problem
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| | NATIONAL - Shades of Amber - Hemingray Jewels
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Bob Stahr, St. John, Indiana
NIA Award for Color
According to some definitions, the color amber is "yellow or yellowish
brown". When it comes to Hemingray, amber can mean a lot of things. There are
at least a dozen distinct colors of CD 162 H.G.Co. signals. In addition, you can
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| | NATIONAL - Watthour Meters
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David Dahle, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
NIA Award for Go-Withs
Milholland Education Award presented by the NIA
The watthour meter has played a key role in the development of today's
electric transmission and distribution system. Before meters caught on, some
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| | NATIONAL - Glass Insulators From Russia And Ukraine
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Marilyn Albers, Houston, Texas
NIA Award for Foreign
Russian is the third most widely spoken European language, after English and
Spanish, and is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. The
Russian and Ukrainian languages both belong to the eastern branch of the Slavic
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| | NATIONAL - A Trip Around Lake Superior
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Insulators of the Lake Superior Basin
Larry Furo,
Duluth, Minnesota
Showmanship Award presented by Bob & Phoebe Adams
SUPERIOR - DULUTH - TWO HARBORS - GRAND MARIAIS - THUNDER BAY - NIPIGON -
MARATHON - WAWA - SAULT-STE. MARIE - MUNISUNG - NEGAUNEE - MARQUETTE - L' ANSE -
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| | NATIONAL - Fornasetti Decorated Insulators
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Rick Soller, Gurnee, Illinois
According to Mauries' Fornasetti: Designer of Dreams, Piero Fornasetti made
paperweights with electrical insulators in 16 designs. The display contains six
of the known designs. Fornasetti used porcelain insulators (U-1668 and U-1714)
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| | Advertising Through the Ages
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| | by Bob Stahr
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Here is an interesting ad out of Pottery & Glassware Reporter, March 7,
1889, page 23. The Pioneer Glass Company of Birmingham, Alabama included
insulators as one of their product lines along with sodas, beer bottles, flasks
and fruit jars.
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| | NATIONAL - Miniature Poles and Insulators
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Alan Stastny, Arcanum, Ohio
Alan says: For 10 years I have been active in the insulator hobby and 33-1/2
years as a lineman. The many different aspects of the utility industry are
great. Insulators have been plentiful and of many styles and colors. The pole
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| | Porcelain Insulator News
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| | by Elton Gish
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Some of you have been collecting insulators for a few decades and may think
you are in the running for the person who has collected insulators the longest -
as limited to collectors in the U.S. We all know Keith Neal in England was
probably the first insulator collector in about 1915. N. R. "Woody"
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| | NATIONAL - CD 101
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James Doty, Simi Valley, California
A colorful assortment of the CD 101 Brookfield "mushroom-top" pony
style used in rural telephone construction is one of the specialty CDs that
James has collected. James is one of the regulars who always shares a display at
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| | NATIONAL - How To Identify A Pittsburg Insulator
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Rick Soller, Gurnee, Illinois
NIA Award for Porcelain
Best Exhibit Using
Power Insulators by GCIC
Very few insulators are actually marked Pittsburg, yet Pittsburg made a vast
range of styles. Color, a mold line over the dome, an unglazed pinhole, a dimple
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| | NATIONAL - Why I Collect Insulators
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Curtis Erickson, Royal Oak, Michigan
NIA Junior Display Award
Best First Time
Displayer by the CFIC
Best Exhibit Using CDs by DJIC
There are four reasons I collect insulators. I like the different
manufacturers and it is a challenge to try and get one example of each company
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| | NATIONAL - Pony Express
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Clay Bledsoe, Titusville, Florida
"Ponies" were used mainly to carry telephone and telegraph lines
during a period of time from the late 1880's until the mid-1900's and can
sometimes still be seen on lines in rural areas. They are found mostly in shades
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| | NATIONAL - Threadless Porcelain
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Doug MacGillvary, Manchester, Connecticut
Dr. Fredrick L. Griffin Memorial
Award for Best Use of Threadless
Best Exhibit using Eastern Insulators
Doug says: I have been collecting porcelain threadless for about seven years.
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