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Hi. Just wanted to drop a line to let you know how much I enjoy CJOW. I
wanted to show you our new backyard pole. My friend Killian and I put it
together (with a little help from my dad). Dad had to cut a dead tree down &
we talked him into making a display pole out of it. He says it might only last
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| | INSULATOR OF THE MONTH
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LOCKE# 25
Ernie Carlson describes the CD 342 Locke # 25 insulator (top) as one of his favorites. It's made of two pieces of glass cemented together. Ernie says it's one of his favorites based on the fact he's made more than a half-dozen trips to Southern Colorado to hunt along the one and only line on which that style of insulator was used. Show below it are two other classic Fred M. Locke insulators from Ernie's collection. Both are called "gutter tops" because the porcelain tops literally have a gutter to drain rain water away from the cross arm. The glass / porcelain combination is an M-2795; the all porcelain an M-2796.
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| | A Magazine for Collectors
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| | Photos from "Crown Jewels of the Wire," June 2006
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CJ In Color!
The following photos are from the June 2006
Crown Jewels of the Wire magazine. These have been provided by the publisher
for those wishing to see a color rendition of the black and white photos
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| | Foreign Insulators
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| | By Bernie Warren
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French Distribution Towers
French power distribution towers and their unique glass insulating discs have
fascinated this writer for several years, resulting in a lot of time being spent
researching and photographing these old towers.
French distribution towers are the equivalent of American electrical
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| | FACTORY FUN
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There's no doubt that a job at a glass factory was difficult, demanding,
dirty, and often filled with drudgery. Perhaps to bring a little fun into the
job, workers occasionally placed coins into the molds. Shown below is a CD 121
Hemingray 16 that had an Indian head penny placed into the dome section of the
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| | Show Report
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Prairie Signals Insulator Show
October 15, 2005
Beautiful weather, great people and insulators of course made this year's
show a great success. We started by unloading tables and soon everyone was set
up and ready. Collectors with tables included: Larry Vredenburgh, Sandy Ellison,
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| | The Hemingray Glass Company - Book Review
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Most collectors are familiar with the May 2, 1893 patent for what we call
"drip points." But they had another name in Ralph Hemingray's patent
application. Do you know what the name was? Why did Hemingray move its plant
from Covington, KY to Muncie, IN? What was the Hemingray's code word for the
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