Don Lundell starts a basic web page about insulators, at www.resilience.com/insulators -- this was the "birth" of the insulators web site. (Click here for a full history )
| Event |
Pictures |
Details |
| 1967 May |
Claire T. McClellan introduces insulators to bottle
collectors in her article in Western Collector. |
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| 1969 March |
First issue of Insulators: Crown Jewels of the Wire
published by Dora Harned of Chico, California. |
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| 1969 September |
Joe Maurath, Jr. takes over editing/writing "Insulator
Hot Line" in Bottle World (vol. 7, no. 9) |
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| 1969 December |
Greg Kareofelas starts monthly column on insulators
in Western Collector. |
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| 1970 June |
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Claire T. McClellan asks in Bottle World, "A
Red Insulator?" (vol. 8, no 6) This question would continue to pop
up through the years. |
| 1970 June 20-21 |
First National show held in New Castle, Indiana. |
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| 1971 July 10-11 |
Informal discussion of a national organization takes
place at the National show held in Colorado Springs, Colorado |
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| 1972 February |
James Garrity of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania starts
publishing Cross Arms: An Eastern Insulator Collectors' Magazine.
The magazine will run until July 1975. |
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| 1972 July 1-2 |
Following the Saturday night banquet at the National
in Kansas City, Missouri, the debate over creating a national organization
raged on into the evening and again no agreement on objectives could be obtained.
As the night wore on, Warren Olson was asked to chair an organizing committee
and was assigned the responsibility of drafting a plan to be presented to
collectors assembled at the next National to be held in July 1973 at Hutchinson,
Kansas. |
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| 1973 |
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National Insulator Association (NIA) is established
at the Hutchinson, Kansas national show. (Click here for more about the formation of the NIA). Fred Griffin is elected President; Steve Freedman, Jesse Moreland,
and Richard Augustyn are elected to the Board of Directors. |
| 1975 July |
The last issue of Cross Arms Magazine (Volume 4, number
6) is published by James Garrity of Paxinos, Pennsylvania after starting
on February 1972. |
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| 1985 April-May |
With the publication of a single issue covering two
months, Dora Harned ends her career as editor of Insulators: Crown Jewels
of the Wire and turns the task over to Carol McDougald. Dora's
last issue was volume 17, number 2-3. |
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| 1985 June |
Carol McDougald takes over as editor of the renamed
Crown Jewels of the Wire. Carol will outlast Dora Harned's
long tenure by just a few issues before turning over the job to Howard and
Linda Banks on January 2003. |
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| 1992 |
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Dixie Jewels Insulator Club founded by Jim Overstreet and Keith Roloson |
| 1992 |
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Greater Chicago Insulator Club founded by Bob Stahr
and Bob Cook. |
| 1993 July |
Steve Goodell begins writing a column on Canadian
Insulators for Canadian Bottle & Stoneware Collector's Summer
issue (No. 5) and would continue until the January 1995 issue. |
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| 1994 |
Keith Roloson begins maintaining a central list of email addresses
of collectors that will eventually become the list server for insulator collectors.
(Click here for a full
history
) |
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| 1995 January |
Steve Goodell's last column on Canadian Insulators
runs in the No. 11 issue of Canadian Bottle & Stoneware Collector
. Columns ran in the following issues: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 11. After
issue No. 12, the magazine stopped covering insulators and the magazine was
eventually sold to another editor. Sources of information devoted exclusively
to Canadian insulators once again dried up. |
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| 1995 March |
Don Lundell takes over the mailing
list maintained by Keith Roloson
, and put it on an automated mailing list server allowing collectors
to one address at
insulators@resilience.com, and have their message broadcast
to all other collectors on the list. (
Click here for a full history
) |
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| 1995 April |
Don Lundell starts a basic web page about insulators, at www.resilience.com/insulators -- this was the "birth" of the insulators web site. (Click here for a full history ) |
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| 1995 May |
Bill Meier takes over as webmaster of the insulator
web site at resilience.com. (
Click here for a full history
) |
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| 1995 September |
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Bob Stahr submits winning name for the list server:
Insulator Collectors on the Net (ICON). (
Click here for a full history
) |
| 1996 January 21 |
On January 21, 1996, the domain insulators.info
was born, and the insulators web site was permanently moved to
www.insulators.info from www.resilience.com/insulators. (
Click here for a full history
) |
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| 1998 October | The domain nia.org was born and the NIA now had their own dedicated web site! | |
| 1999 |
Prairie Signals Insulator Club is formed. |
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| 1999 August |
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Jefferson State Insulator Club formed for collectors
in Oregon and California. |
| 1999 September |
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Great Lakes Insulator Collectors Club (GLASS) forms
in northwest Pennsylvania. |
| 2000 January |
Columbia Basin Insulator Collectors Club formed in
the Pacific Northwest. By 2005 the club was no longer active. |
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| 2000 August |
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A patch for ICON members is created. |
| 2002 December |
The December 2002 issue of Crown Jewels of the
Wire is the last one edited by Carol McDougald. Carol started editing
the magazine with the June 1985 issue (volume 17, number 4) and finished
with the volume 34, number 12 issue. |
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| 2002 December |
Marilyn Albers announces her retirement as the editor
of the Foreign Insulators column in the Crown Jewels of the Wire.
Marilyn edited her column for 23 years. The search for her replacement
is announced in the next issue of the CJ. |
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| 2003 January |
Howard and Linda Banks take over publication and editing
of the Crown Jewels of the Wire. |
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| 2004 December |
A couple of noncollectors purchase a CD 180 Fluid
Insulator for a few dollars, list it on eBay and sell it for over $10,000.
The wire services pick up the story and the hobby sees an upswing in requests
for appraisals, hits on insulator web sites, and more insulators listed on
eBay, often with outlandish starting prices. |
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| 2004 December |
Eric Johnson has a mold made for a CD 162 with the
embossing HEMINGRAY-19 // MADE IN U.S.A. One-hundred and fifty cobalt
blue insulators are made in the mold to use in a fountain he is building
but some of the insulators are sold on eBay creating controversy in the hobby.
After some negotiation with the NIA the initials NAJ are now sand blasted into the side of the insulators but
collectors are still concerned that people might still be fooled into believe the
insulators are legitimate.
The NIA issued a Special Notice on this piece.
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