| | 20 Years of Collecting in Ontario
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| | by John Badowski
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In Thorald, Ontario, there is a Grand Trunk Railway tunnel which winds
in an "s" shape for one mile beneath the Welland Canal. The tunnel was
abandoned prior to World War One and is now flooded due to leaks from the canal.
In 1971, I ventured through the tunnel during a cold winter season when
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| | Frederick Newton Gisborne, 1824-1892
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| | by Eric Halpin
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The somewhat plain, white and moderate in size, porcelain insulator U-1135
bears the dome incuse words "Gisborne Pattern." Such a humble insulator
belies the significance of the great man of enterprise and energy who designed
it.
Born into a well to do family in England, Frederick Gisborne was extensively
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| | Foreign Insulators
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| | by Marilyn Albers
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OUT OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Several of us have already met FRANTISEK DANEK through the mail, but in case
you haven't, let me introduce him to you. He is a young man of 38 and he lives in
a small village called Dvoriste about 60 miles southeast of Prague,
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| | Beneath Nevada's Sage and Sand
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| | by Mike Tucker
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From time to time there have been articles about the transcontinental
telegraph line (circa 1860-1869) in the western United States. I wish to direct
your attention to some insulator findings by some non-collectors
(archaeologists) in Nevada. The specific sites are Cold Springs and Sand Springs
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| | Ask Woody
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| | by N. R. Woodward
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N. R. "Woody" Woodward is the author of The Glass Insulator
in America, 1988 Report and developed
the Consolidated Design Numbers identification system for glass insulators.
Questions for this month's column were submitted by Dan Kelly of Smithton,
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