One warm Sunday early this year, I managed to talk Tom into going out looking for insulators. Now, Tom collects, but not seriously. We went first to a small flea market east of Baltimore and didn’t find anything. We then went across the road and walked the B&O railroad since they had been replacing some fifty-plus year old poles. After seeing a number of crossarms on the ground with numerous Hemingray-42's, Whitall Tatum No. 1's, and a few "B" embossed Brookfields, we turned back. Near the car, I saw a screwdriver handle in the mud and picked it up. It had been ground to a point. I turned to Tom and said, "All this walking and this is awl I found." He had picked up a couple of steel pins earlier; he threw one at me. When we left there, we took a dirt road that crossed the B&O and did some more searching. MCI had buried a cable alongside the tracks at this point and their trenching machine brought up a CD 133.4 in surprisingly good condition for a buried insulator. I feel the day wasn't wasted and I guess it is ironic that it took 1980's technology to bring to the surface an 1870's artifact. That proves that you never know what you'll find until you go out and look.