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| | by Elton Gish
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This month I will try to clean out a couple of reported items that we have
neglected to report. Both are significant and should have been reported long
before now. I get a lot of interesting reports that do not fit in nice neat
categories, so maybe we can get a few of them before you this month. And there
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| | "Headin' fer the Hills!"--The Auburn 2002 Show
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| | by Dwayne Anthony
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Traveling about thirty miles east out of Sacramento on the main highway you
will enter Auburn, CA, a town of rolling hills and history. Back in 1849 Auburn
was just a gold mining camp that was centrally located to other remote gold
mining areas. It was the farthest point a wagon could travel from Sacramento.
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| | Insulator of the Month - SCREAMING YELLOW ZONKER!!!
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CD 122 McLaughlin #16 Toll
Every now and then you come across a citrine colored McLaughlin insulator.
But very few stand out like this one. Bill Ostrander has a large and marvelous collection of both glass and porcelain insulators. But Bill says that if he ever
had to reduce his collection to just one single piece, this "screaming
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| | Eye Candy
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Some insulators are just fun to admire. Unusual shapes. Surprising Colors.
Out of the ordinary. Simply a delight to view. Collectors often call such
insulators "eye candy".
Crown Jewels this month features porcelain insulators that fall into the
"eye candy" category. The items on the following pages are from the
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| | Kids Corner
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Contest for Kids: We are inviting kids to design a logo for "Kids
Corner". (You can also choose a different name.) The prize for the winning
design will be this fun shaped "Micky Mouse" insulator, a CD 257
Hemingray in near mint condition. It is aqua blue with a cool amber swirl in one
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| | Foreign Insulators
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| | by Rick Soller
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The Last Days of the Canadian Porcelain Company
Incorporated on October 29, 1912, Canadian Porcelain's demise in the 1980s exemplified the changing insulator business that was for so many years a stable industry. The story includes lessons about the dangers of complacency, the cutthroat nature of international competition, and the politics of plant closings.
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| | A Magazine for Collectors
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| | Photos from "Crown Jewels of the Wire," February 2003
CJ In Color!
The following photos are from the February 2003
Crown Jewels of the Wire magazine. These have been provided by the publisher
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