Old Bottle Magazine - 1973

January 1973:

• Insulator By-Lines by Frances Terrill - Pages 38-40
  • Al Rickert of Green Bay, WI reports a CD 102 pony marked BURRO and ROW on the back.
  • Forrest Jones of New Castle, OH reports a milk glass CE 168 Hemingray D-510 from the Hemingray dump.
  • Karen and Jarl ??? report two goodyear rubber ramshorns, a CD 139 Combination Safety, A CD 144.5, a CD 105 American, and a 102.4 New England Tel. and Tel. Co.
• Article by William McLaughlin on the McLaughlin Glass Co. - Pages 41-45
• Yankee Polecat Insulator Club Show Report - Page 45

February 1973:

• Insulator By-Lines by Frances Terrill - Pages 45-51
  • A report by Forrest Jones of New Carlisle, NY of the CD 141.4 "Slim pin" insulators that were found in a Lake Erie, OH dump.
  • Glenn Drummond of Cincinnati, OH reports an unusual CD 121 toll marked AM.TEL.TEL.Co.
  • Jack Phelps of Williamsburg, IN reports CD 252 Hemingray-62 and CD 280 Hemingray-71 in carnival glass.  Both came from the Hemingray dump.
  • Church Barnes of Elmira, NY reports a no inner skirt signal marked around the pin hole shoulder "PAT OCT 15 1872" - Not sure of the CD on this one.
  • Gerald Brown of Two Buttes, CO reports the U-395 porcelain Mickey Mouse in both blue and brown. as well as reporting the small M-2335 gutter top!
  • Henry Longill reports a cobalt blue CD 724 base embossed CHESTER, NY

April 1973:

• Insulator By-Lines by Frances Terrill - Pages 45-51
  • A report of a white ink-stamped Fred Locke insulator
  • Reports of the embossing found on the CD 100 Surge insulators as well as information on the side arm surge pins.
  • A list of the CD number changes to eliminate the 400 series to be replaced with decimal additions to the lower CD numbers.
  • An announcement that William McLaughlin is in the process of making some CD 162 style commemorative insulators, he is not yet sure of the price.
  • A full page of hand drawings of "Blue Porcelain Insulators"
  • An article on porcelain insulators titled "Porcelain Potpourri"

June 1973:

• Insulator By-Lines by Frances Terrill- Pages 50-53
  • Roy and Helen Mahony of Medford, NJ report the CD 182 Whitall Tatum Dry Spot Insulator.
  • A report of a CD 102 base embossed PAT'd
  • A report of a metal and composition trolley insulator made by Ohio Brass
  • A reported CD 225 Brookfield and some discussion of former CD 236
  • A page of hand drawn "Cobalt Blue Insulators" and discussion on the varieties.  Oddly enough there is a picture of a CD 1070 Hemingray 109 in cobalt as well as a CD 1052 spool.

July 1973:

• Insulator By-Lines - Pages 26-31
  • A note of thanks to Frances Terrill as the outgoing By-Lines editor
  • A note from "The Bottle Examiner" to beware of "new" carnival glass insulators, particularly the CD 257 mice.
  • Reb Bennett and Louie Pellegrini report finding three CD 265 Fisher insulators.
  • Announcement of the formation of the National Insulator Association including the proposed By-laws.
  • A picture of Rex May and his display "Colored Jewels of the Wire" which won first place at the April 1973 Tulsa AB&RC Show.

August 1973:

• Cartoon featuring a Lynchburg insulator - Page 3
• Insulator By-Lines - Pages 19-21
  • "The Opal Insulator Story" by Doc Thompson article covering the first discovery of the CD 128 Hemingray E-14B in Florida.
  • Vivian Jones reports that the Southern Porcelain Co. of Koalin, SC made brownware insulators for telegraph lines during the Civil War.
  • A short discussion on the formation of the NIA.
  • A note on the newly formed Capital District Insulator Club with 32 members and Tom Louden as President.
  • Article by Phil Kiabel on "Macomb Insulators"
  • Report on the glass "on wire" dryspot insulator that can be found in light SCA

September 1973:

• Insulator By-Lines - Pages 21-23
  • Article on the CD 734.8 "Battleford Baby Threadless" by Sid Wilson of N. Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada.
  • Article on the Non-pintype Fisher insulators: "The Short Lived Fisher" by Gerald and Esta Brown of Two Buttes, CO. - Includes information on the Detroit Electrical Works.
  • Discussion of the Hutchinson, KS fourth NIA National Show and the newly formed National Insulator Association.  

November 1973:

• Insulator By-Lines - Pages 37-41
  • Discussion of a Wall Street journal article on August 7th, 1973 that put insulator collecting in a bad light due to insulator thefts from live lines.
  • Three and a half pages of hand drawn threadless insulators with their estimated values.

December 1973:

• Insulator By-Lines - Pages 48-52
  • Article "Tepee of Glass Insulators" by Grover Brinkman of Okawville, IL on Floyd Barnes of DeBorgia, MT who has made a giant pyramid shaped outdoor insulator display.
  • A Gerald Brown of Two Buttes, CO article "Hemingray Made Insulators For 97 Years" including a picture of the Muncie, IN factory
  • Announcement that the fifth Annual NIA National Show will be in Hershey. PA
  • Three pages of hand drawn pictures of unusual insulators with estimated values.

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