In my letter to you in the May 1975 issue of Insulators I provided some insight into the history of three insulators made in Canada, the CD 742.1, CD 726 and CD 721. My family and I had not been able to find a complete insulator at the site of the Canada Glass Company, only pieces.

However, as a result of my article, I received in the mail a complete CD 721, aqua, as a gift for writing the article and proving that CD 721's were made in Canada. For the gift my family and I are most grateful to Mr. A. E. Carter of Innerkip, Ontario.

Mr. Carter has added to the research on this insulator, as he explained to me that he has dug a few of these in Ontario, some still covered with wood and in a light cobalt blue as well as aqua. Mr. Carter also has two more different Wade types, one in green and one in amber. The wide variety of colours is not surprising for the Canada Glass Company, as the company made a variety of druggist's bottles and lamps, particularly small hand lamps with coloured chimneys in ruby and deep blue. While colour in insulators did not appear to matter, the glass from batches for fine articles was also used for insulators. Because of this, I believe that the chances of more reddish insulators being dug up is very good.

My reason for writing is partly to thank Mr. Carter for his generous gift and partly to expand the research on insulators. To be rewarded the way I have been certainly is encouraging, and I would advise other collectors to write to you about any information they might have on the history of insulator manufacturing and where they were used.

I have had some lucky finds this summer, as well as the Wade gift. One CD 742 light aqua was sitting at the entrance of a ground hog hole as though he had put it there for a door stop. I had looked before along the old road where I found it, as I am sure a hundred other bottle and insulator collectors had done. My timing was just right to have been there before someone else, or before the ground hog buried it again. Perhaps a luckier find, and a more interesting one from a research point of view, was a Lefferts ramshorn. It is of a beautiful blue-green glass 2" by 3", the rams horn extending another 1-1/2" (4-1/2" overall). The glass is mint, but the horns are rusted. It was in a Nova Scotia railway ditch that had just been cleaned. My son John and I decided to look at the railway across from the campground after supper before dark, and we were very excited when we spotted what we thought was the end of a bottle. John also found a mint CD 726 in aqua this summer along another old railroad.

Insulator collecting has been a most enjoyable hobby for the family. There are a number of chores that should be done around the house when we get time, but they can wait. Most of all we have enjoyed meeting and talking to other collectors and antique dealers.