Elton Gish won the People's Choice Award, the NIA award for Best Display of Porcelain Insulators, the Milholland Education Award, and the award for "Best Exhibit Using Power Insulators" with his exhibit of rare pin-type porcelain insulators. Elton is shown below receiving the trophy from the show hosts. Pictured (left to right) are Jack Roach, Elton, Jim Bates, Carolyn & Bob Berry. Mark & Elaine Corriero designed and carved the "best of show" trophy from wood. It is, fittingly for this winner, a replica of a M-2795 Fred M. Locke multipart. Two examples, including one with a white glazed top, are shown in the back of Elton's exhibit above.

Elton's exhibit included a U-146, the Pass & Seymour wet process insulator, one of the first porcelain insulators designed for the transmission of electrical power. In white glaze, it is a "beehive" shaped insulator (encircled). There are two specimens in the Smithsonian Institute, but the one above is the only one known to be privately owned.