Show Report - Part A
Reprinted from "Crown Jewels of the Wire", August 2002, page 17
Rick Soller (Gurnee, IL) brought two displays to share with collectors.
Pictured below is a display of "dummy" potheads (U-190 and U -190A)
and photos showing their installation in the greater Chicago area.
Rick also assembled a colorful display of insulator business cards.
NIA First Place - Threaded Glass
Jack Roach
(Wimberly, TX)
celebrated the 4th
with an "All American CD 145 Display"
Louis Hall (Fresno, CA) mounted six panels with a vast assortment of pins and
brackets.
NIA First Place - General
Leonard Gibson
(Corvallis, OR) and his daughter
Laurie Haney (Portland, OR) displayed a pre-school classroom educational unit
using insulators. (See CJOW, April 2002 for "Never Too Young" story) |
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NIA First Place - Lightning Rod Equipment
Combining two loves - early sheet music and plain
round lightning rod balls -- John McDougald (St. Charles, IL) displayed six
colorful music covers with balls of matching colors.
"Color Classics - A
pretty lrb, is like a melody." |
NIA First Place - Porcelain
Elton Gish (Buna, TX)
will feature his New
Lexington High Voltage Porcelain Co. in Porcelain Insulator News in CJOW,
October 2002 Best Use of Power Insulators - Greater Chicago Insulator Club
presented by Bob Stahr
NIA First Place - Junior
Sean Green (Lakewood, CO)
included impurities and color in the variety of his
display.
NIA First Place - Foreign
NIA Milholland Education Award
The story of
developing an "insulator procurement system" from an Eastern block
country is fascinating! Tom Katonak (Albuquerque, NM) procured and displayed
"The Best of the Ukrainian Glass".
Most of the pieces fall into the highly unusual or rare category and have
been introduced over the past two and one-half years. The colors, shapes, swirls
are breathtaking -- especially the ambers, olives and cobalts!
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| High voltage lines out of Kiev yielded various shades of amber CD 247.5 power
insulators. |
A railway station in Poltava was the source of the 7-up green piece; a CD 589
transposition dates back to 1916 from Kani; transformer cover (7) from
hydro-electric dam in Kharkiv; a 50kv power insulator with metal removed. |
Sandy Ellison's (Oklahoma City, OK) "My Telephone Connections"
featured her family and their connections to the telephone company.
Her interest in telephone embossed long distance insulators was a perfect fit
to accompany an operator's headset; pole climbers and a hand-held test set.
| Even at 18 months, Sandy had established her own "telephone
connection". |
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Bob & Phoebe Adams Showmanship Award given by Phoebe Adams and presented by John and Carol
McDougald
First Time National Displayer - Central Florida Insulator Collectors presented by Jim Colburn
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"Insulators. . . Plus!" had some of the wildest UFOs (Unidentified
Foreign Objects) that have ever been seen. Bill Rohde (Williams, CA) has made
contact with some great "aliens."
Best Use of Railroad Embossed Insulators Chesapeake Bay Insulator Club
presented by Larry Novak
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| Bubble up graphite |
Black threads |
Open bubble wire groove to dome |
Slice of bacon |
Indian head penny impression |
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| Bottle cap |
Red "lifesaver" |
Nail pressed over entire dome |
Hemingray "quality" |
Button reading Made in U.S.A.
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Jack Tod Memorial Award for best Porcelain Display
Robin Harrison (Seattle, WA) displayed a lot of porcelain
"character" with examples of:
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| Glazed over chips |
Drips |
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| Glazing errors |
Unusual patterns |
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| Gas bubbles |
Trimming errors |
NIA Fred Griffin Threadless Award
Eloise Haltman (Cathedral City, CA) staged the marriage of Intense Heat to
Silica Sand, producing a display of 115 different glass threadless insulators,
Two recently acquired threadless CDs were the CD 796 Boston Bottle Works and the
CD 724.6 threadless sleeve.
Rumor has it that there are still four threadless
CDs that are not yet part of in the Heat/Sand marriage!
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"The Western Flint Glass Company is now erecting a large plant for the
manufacture of all kinds of bottles, fruit jars and insulators which they will
shortly place on the market".
-- Denver Post, September 24, 1899
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"40 boys wanted at once, 12 to 14 years of age. Apply to Western Flint
Glass Company, Valverde, Colo. " -- Denver Times. September 4, 1900
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"There are now about 175 employees and the factory is running night and
day." -- Denver Times, February 28, 1901
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NIA First Place - Specialty
Expanding the historic years of Western Flint Glass Company and their wares
to cover more than 30 feet of display room, Mike Miller (Denver, CO) used a
combination of photographs, newspaper articles and unique glass products in
sharing his specialty collection.
NIA First Place - Go-Withs
Best Use of So. California Glass - Central &
Southern Counties Insulator Club, presented by Dwayne Anthony
Best Use of
Western Glass - Nor-Cal Insulator Club, presented by Mike Doyle
Dave Hall (Wilmington, CA) spent nearly four hours with the help of fellow
collectors assembling this tremendous display of McLaughlin products including
La Vida mineral water bottles and a representative CD of each insulator
manufactured.
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McLaughlin bottles
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