Old Bottle Magazine - 1969

January 1969:

• Insulator By-Lines by Frances Terrill - Pages 44-53
  • Paul Vaverchak of Lake Hiawatha, NJ reports a U-184 white porcelain harloe patent.
  • David Gieck of Colorado Springs, CO reports a silver-gray composition signal style that came from Cripple Creak, CO.  He also found an unusual unmarked aqua bushing.
  • Marilyn Delling of Green River, WY reports a CD 731 S. McKee & Co. threadless.
  • Bernard Park reports an unusual metal and wood bracket used with EC&M's and Cal. Elec. Works insulators.  He also reports a CD 700 magnetic egg in aqua.
  • John Neal Jr. of Ft. Pierce, FL reports finding 52 CD 128 Hemingray E-14B's in various condition.
  • Marv. Smith of Colorado Springs, CO reports a unique way to under-light insulators.
  • Joyce Kelly of Peoria Heights, IL reports a CD 110.5 with the arc embossed New Eng. Tel. & Tel. Co.
  • Carl Newman of Mt. Vernon, WA provides detailed information on how to remove the cap and pin from glass Pyrex suspensions.

February 1969:

• Insulator By-Lines by Frances Terrill- Pages 52-59
  • Claude Potter of Hemet, CA reports the glass center section from an M-2795 and a related poem titled "The Locke Flat Top".
  • Joe Maurath of Weymouth, MA reports a CD 110 Spiral groove Brookfield, a CD 134 diamond P, and a CD 121 C.D.& P. Co.  He also reports information on the James Pennycuick patent.
  • Bill and Ev. Getty of Conneaut Lake, PA report that the Central District and Printing Co. established a telephone exchange in Meadville, PA in 1881.
  • Rod Laubhan of Hereford, TX provided a copy of his insulator pricing guide.
  • General speculation about "fake" carnival insulators.
  • A short report on Gary Cranfill of Sacramento, CA new book on insulators.
  • Ed Mead of Nice, CA reports the CD 208 Castle in light blue glass.
  • Jack Wiseburn of Clayton, NJ reports the metal and glass ramshorn insulator known as the Mount Washington Ramshorn.  
  • There are drawings of seven different Fred Locke glass power insulators.
  • Article by Howard Banks of Merlin, OR "The Fred M. Locke Line" covering a power line completed in 1903 from the Gold Ray Dam to the Greenback Mine.  This line used some M-2795 combination insulators as well as the all porcelain M-2796 counterparts.  The line also had CD 300 Fred M. Locke No. 17 insulators as well as U-192 Fred Locke transpositions.

March 1969:

• Insulator By-Lines by Frances Terrill- Pages 47-57
  • Tom Wolfe of Auburn, NE reports a CD 105 American.
  • Edgar Simon reports an unusual white porcelain marked FOLSTAD and PAT'D JAN 1916.
  • Irma Conrad of Chico, CA reports a CD 130.2 Seilers from the Kissee collection.
  • Karl Thompson of Norwich, NY reports the CD 109 Chicago teardrop pony.
  • Warren Olson article on "Embossing Errors" provides two full pages of information.

April 1969:

• Insulator By-Lines by Frances Terrill- Pages 42-49
  • Al Leslie of Hutchinson, KS reports a metal and composition trolley insulator marked 197 on the outside metal shell.
  • Ray Skibby of Ashland, OR reports a Corning Pyrex 701 CD 331.
  • Doug Parks of Ogallala, NE reports a CD 248/311 Pyrex stacker.
  • Jim Sanders of Ojai, CA reports a CD 201 purple California which they picked off a pole.
  • Leon Barrett of Binghamton, NY reports the CD 284 Floy.
  • John McMillan, 11, of Spearville, KS reports a CD 258 with sharp drip points.
  • Mr. & Mrs. Ken Roach of Muncie, IN report a CD 109.5 Harloe Patent.  They also indicated that the carnival coating on power insulators was to cut down on radio interference.
  •  Howard Banks of Merlin, OR provided pictures of the M-2795 combination eves trough, CD 300 Fred Locke, and CD 321 Prism.

May 1969:

• Show report for the Northwest Bottle Show in Boise, ID shows an insulator display by Floyd Audette of Boise "Groovy Insulators".
• Insulator By-Lines by Frances Terrill - Pages 49-55
  • Bruce Davidson 15 of Henniker, NH reports a CD 740 threadless and what looks like a CD 136.5 Boston Bottle Works.
  • There is a note that "a lot" of people are making carnival Hemingray-42's, red pyrex, etc. and a caution on their value.
  • Francis Terrill submits a poem "Peculiar Pete".
  • Article by E.R. Wankell "The Early Hemingray" providing three and a half pages on the Dec. 19, 1871 patented insulators.  

June 1969:

• Insulator By-Lines by Frances Terrill - Pages 50-55
  • Gertrude Thompson of Norwich, NY reports a CD 301 in both green and olive green.
  • Arlene Harris of Ossian, IN reports an unusual item embossed Gray-Hemingray & Bros Cincinnati, Ohio Patent Applied For, and on the back P. Smith Sole Agent Cincinnati, Ohio.
  • Joe Maurath of Weymough, MA reports a CD 145 G.T.P. beehive and information on GTP.
  • Bill Kuhar of Bethlehem, PA reports the Otis lightning rod patent.
  • Letters from Awrren Olson of Denison, IA and E. Rostock of Pendleton, OR both report ways to catalog insulators.
  • an insulator poem by Winnie Smith of Ashfork, AZ titled "To The Lineman".
  • David Geick of Colorado Springs, CO reports CD 267 No. 4 cable and the CD 134 T-H.E.Co. in dark amber.
  • A CD 342 Locke No. 25 is shown that came from a 20,000V line near Cripple Creak, CO  with a steel pin cemented in.

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