| | Glass Junk From Harrisburg
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| | by Gus Stafford
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So there I am, logged onto the daily insulator show on eBay. I checked out
all the usual suspects by searching for "insulator*" (including
descriptions, of course!). I almost went for a beautiful purple crackle glass
Hemingray 42 that had been shaped into a one-of-a-kind candle holder, but I
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| | Mac's Believe It Or Not!
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| | by John McDougald
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New Finds and Old Stories
One of the blessings of being in the business of trying to keep up with all
the known listings of insulators is the number of contacts that are generated
through the magazine, the mail and now the electronic media from collectors who
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| | Fake & Altered Insulators - Artificially Induced Colors
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| | by Dwayne Anthony, NIA #3619
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Forgeries, fakes and physical alterations appear to be an escalating concern
for nearly all categories of collectibles and antiquities. The prestigious and
"electrifying" hobby of insulator collecting is, unfortunately, no
exception. Of particular concern is the recent escalation of color altered
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| | Porcelain Insulator News
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| | by Elton Gish
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In July 1999, we discussed two rather large wall entrance tubes. The white
tube was about two feet long, six inches in diameter and dated 1906. The smaller
brown-glazed tube was nearly three feet long and 2-1/2" in diameter. It had
the "THOMAS" marking on one end. We now know that this is actually the
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| | Likes & Dislikes of Digging Hemingray
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| | by Roger Lucas
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