Shown on these two pages are insulators that were displayed at two events in March: the Chico, California bottle show and an insulator swap meet in Nathan Lamkey's barn in Salem, Oregon.                                                                                                 
                                                                                                        

	Dave Elliott and his son, Andrew, displayed at the Chico show. The Hemingray ponies at the left were behind glass doors, but I think you can still appreciate the wide variety of colors to be found in those "common" ol' Hemingray #9's.
Andrew collects Stars of all CD's and displayed a most attractive group as shown here.

Crown Jewels will plan on putting more show pictures at our website: www.cjow.com

Nathan Lamkey is our webmaster. He's working to improve the site with more archival pictures from past issues of the magazine.

Also, Nathan puts the pictures shown in black and white in the magazine up on the website in color every month. Dial in and take a look!

While some three dozen CD 123 EC&M insulators were for sale at the Chico and Salem events, the number didn't include these three. The amber on the left was shown at the Chico show. It's a B-mold with a great story. The insulator was found by a man who, in a fit of temper, threw his car keys over an embankment. When he calmed down, he scampered over the bank to look for them, and found this jewel in the process. The two on the right were shown at Salem. The olive amber H-mold in the middle was purchased at an estate auction in 2000. The midnight blue A-mold on the right is one your editor owned in 1970. Collector Jim Kiser and myself purchased it for re-sale, selling it to a Kansas City collector that year. After spending several decades in the mid-west, it's now owned by an Oregon collector. (Not me, unfortunately).

"Bubbling with blisters" describes the glaze on this M-2795 Fred M Locke multipart. Denley Bryson reconstructed this top. It was among the more than 200 damaged M-2795's Denley and friends recovered from a dump this past winter in northern California. It's amazing that this crudely made top passed inspection and made it out of the factory in Victor, New York.