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Cross Arms Magazine Cross Arms Magazine CROSS ARMS is p ublished monthl y by James Garrity Second class postage at Box 117 , R. D. #1 P a xi n o s , PA 17 8 6 0. Tel. : paid at Paxinos, PA (717) 672-9326. Editor James Garrity Single copy $ .60 Western Representative Addie Tasem Subscription price $6.00 Subscription Co-Ordinator Donna Bobb (12 issues) Information Co-Ordinator Bob Wilson Back issues 6 0 i ea. (not all issues available. ) Vol. 4, No. 3 APRIL, 1975 Copyright © 1975 by CROSS ARMS We are happy to announce the addi­ tion of two new staff members to CROSS ARMS MAGAZINE. Mrs. Donna Bobb of 610 North­ ampton Rd. , Norristown, PA 19401. She is our Subscription Co-ordinator and is in complete charge of new subscriptions, show ribbons, and free information. Mr. Bob Wilson of 12612 Chilton Rd. , Philadelphia, PA 19154. Bob is our Information Co-ordinator and he is in charge of inf ormation-re search-and pictoral presentation for the magazine. Both Bob and Donna are trying very hard to make CROSS ARMS the best insulator magazine available and any help you can give them will be appreciated. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Baton Rouge Show 5 Book Review 6 Classified Ads 16 Corning Reprint 9 From Our Mailbox 6 Insulator of the Month writeup 3 an tear-out sheet 7 insulator collectors’ 60 cents NIA News 5 magazine Reminences of an Insulator Collector 2 Shows 19 o Yankee Pole Cats Show 4 BOX 117, R. D. No. 1, PAXINOS, PENNA. 17860 REMINISCENCES OF AN INSULATOR COL­ The telephone and telegraph lines are LECTOR , dwindling in number. The acquisition of by John J. Fischer glass "hot off the line" is becoming less Why did I ever start collecting glass practicable as old lines are already picked insulators? Well, it's a long story, not and new ones are underground. Of course, unlike that of many other members of our there are still many new finds made in our relatively new hobby. I remember the em­ hobby, but I'm sure they will decrease as bryonic beginnings of my entrance into, the hobby expands. The glass in circula­ what is today, an obsession. Lest I bore tion will circulate or cease to circulate the readers of this article with trivial with its demand by the enthusiasts of our minutia from my past, I shall refrain from hobby. At one time an insulator, first laboring over the first glass insulator I uncovered, is priceless, find more and the found, what it was, and how I found it. price comes down. Don't find enough and (Needless to say the insulator was quite un­ it's still expensive. desirable even in a beginners collection II. The second inconsistency with today. ) which a new collector must contend, is The first insulator, if one has a pro­ getting acquainted with his peers (fellow clivity to pursue its origin and history, in­ collectors). I, personally found this part evitably leads to a second insulator and so of insulator collecting: 1. Rewarding, 2. on. Eventually, one acquires enough Frustrating, 3. Phychologically Stimula­ pieces to consider himself a collector. To ting. this date it is indeterminable at which 1. Rewarding, because one meets number of insulators one metamorphosizes many collectors who are genuinely inter­ fromneophyte gathererof glass to "graduate ested in expanding the hobby and helping collector" of insulators. Every individual new collectors get started on the right who desires to pursue the hobby of col­ foot. lecting these glass gems (I use the term 2. Frustrating because, one often "gems" because of the price some of to­ writes ten letters to those people he days collectable glass insulators are mar­ wishes to establish a reporte with; and gets keting for) has many inconsistencies to only 6 replys, (from collectors) 3 of which contend with. don't take much time or consideration in I. The first of these is acquiring answering the queries of their fellow col­ those pieces one deems desirable for a lectors. collection. In the beginning, shapes and 3. Phychologically stimulating, to color often dazzle the alluring collector, try to understand the various types of col­ for he hasn't become familiar with the in­ lectors one meets. tricacies of the hobby. Later, color and There are three basic types of col­ shape often are replaced by desirability or lectors, without going into splinter varia­ scarcity. In the end, one often arrives at tions . a point in his collecting life where his a. The first is the good Samaritan, desires overshadow his capability to who is characterized by his fair dealing acquire what he wants. As is true in all with all his fellow collectors, new to the collective hobbies, ones desires often hobby or well established in it. He is transcend ones needs. The method by actively engaged in helping new collectors which I obtained my first insulator was get started, trades, sells, and describes quite rudimentary. It consisted of walking his glass equitably. He is a genuine insu­ looking, and using the prehensile charact­ lator collector. Admired by one and all. eristics of the human hand. b. The wheeler dealer is the second Today, however, such methods have type. His motto is "Do unto others before given way to trading, buying, and digging. 2 they do unto you". His trade marks are: buy cheaply, and sell high (the same laws John DeSousa of Bloomfield, Con - apply to his trading). Never help anyone necticut, Dale Dawson of Hutchinson, Kan­ because they won't appreciate it anyway! sas & the Drummonds of the Ohio Valley My collection must be the best, no matter Insulator Club in Cincinnati all shared in­ how I have to acquire it! Many insulator teresting variations of this familiar insula­ collectors today, are, I'm convinced, in tor. the hobby to make a buck. Some are so Next month I will feature a H. G. avaricious as to take advantage of newly CD 145 or 151, whichever I receive the most dedicated collectors. These individuals response on. Beyond that I will try to are NOT needed in any hobby. As with cover the wooden trolley insulators. I have all hobbies, stories have circulated con­ also had a request on a CD 112 Brookfield cerning the dealings between collector and and will feature that at a later date. Please neophyte collector. They usually wind up let me know what variations on this insula­ in the classis response: "I sold his a $5. 00 tor you have, particularly off-center insulator for $15. 00. .hope he comes back embos sing. for more. " I would like to feature a CD 162. 5 c. The third example of the collector PLW by Brookfield at some future date, b is the clandestine type. He spends much but I need a specimen. If any reader would time pursuing the development of his col­ have one they would sell reasonably, please lection, but little or no time aiding and let me know. When writing please let me abetting his hobby. In our hobby, I see a know where it was found. chronic occurrance of the same names in Some readers have written about insulator magazine articles. Out of all problems findins insulators along railroads. the advocates who claim to be insulator With the many miles of abandoned railroads collectors, how is it possible we are in this country it seems better to look here plagued with a "silent majority. " than along the already troubled operating To try to synthesize my recollections railroads. This is more true when you would probably take 24 hours around a consider that threadless and other rare table with several willing listeners, and a insulators are being found in the ground-- few dozen cups of coffee. In abbreviation, not on poles. For people who hunt insula­ I will bow to discretion and close my tors in Maine, the book ABANDONED RAIL­ already unusual essay. What we, as col­ ROADS IN MAINE by the Department of lectors, need are more informative art­ Parks & Recreation lists the abandoned icles in our publications, and maybe a few railroads in this state, their history and a more publications. More numerous locali­ map of locations. It can be obtained from zed insulator shows. A greater desire to Maine libraries; even by your local library help new collectors get started, and on interlibrary loan. If readers are inter­ established collectors to know each other ested, I'll mention other sources of aban­ better. doned railroad information in the future. INSULATOR OF THE MONTH <tear out NOTICE: Bids for National Insulatoi- by E. C. Storey on Association Regional and National Shows page 7) should be submitted to Regional Vice- Last month I said we would feature presidents or the NIA office as far in ad­ Whitall Tatum insulators this month. vance as possible. ALSO: Clubs desiring Reader response on CD 121 AT&T insula - to have local shows NIA-sanctioned should tors has been sufficient for me to change, contact the NIA office for details. Address: however. We will catch the W. T. #1 in a Executive Director, Howard Banks, 1750 later month. Hugo Road, Merlin, Oregon 97532. YANKEE POLE CAT SPRING SHOW by Charlie Angevine The show was held in the K of C hall in Glastonbury, CT on February 23rd. Twenty one sales and seven display tables were occupied. Despite nearly torrential rains most of the morning about 175 spec­ tators turned out. Those who braved the storm were treated to a glittering array of some of New England's finest insulators on display and for sale.
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