| | Michigan - Boston Bottle Works
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| | by Bob Roosevelt
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Yes, Virginia, there are "Boston" insulators in Michigan! Two weeks
in October and November of last year, my wife and I went to Michigan on
vacation. We spent some of our time hunting insulators along an old line which
had been used by the New York Central. We did no digging, but just kept looking
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| | When It Rains, It Pours
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| | by Bob Goccia, Lamberville, N.J.
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The article by Dennis Mickey in last month's issue of CROWN JEWELS prompted
me to relate a similar experience.
As most collectors already know, roaming flea markets and garage sales is
perhaps our most economical source of glass. However, one may search and walk
many markets over the course of many weekends and come home without any
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| | Ask Woody
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I am most grateful to Mr. N.R. Woodward, Houston, Texas for his willingness
to answer readers' questions. Mr. Woodward is the author of The Glass Insulator
in America and developed the Consolidated Design Numbers identification system
for glass insulators.
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| | Modified TW Composite Transposition Insulator
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| | by Rich Wentzel
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Armstrong's CD 203.2 TW is unquestionably an elusive item. Information
recently made available from the archives of the Whitall Tatum-Armstrong-Kerr
glass insulator manufacturing department reveals that this insulator has not
been found in its intended configuration.
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| | Porcelain Insulator News
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| | by Elton Gish, NIA #41
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There have been a few reports dribbling in over the last several years of
insulators which required the assignment of a new U-number. The reports were too
few to cause much excitement among porcelain collectors.
The many new reports recently received are very exciting indeed and go to prove that
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