Old Bottle Magazine - 1976

April 1976:

• Insulator By-Lines by Joe Maurath - Pages 36-39
  • Porcelain Double Groove Pony Insulators by Joe Maurath and Jack Tod
  • The Leffert's Hook ramshorn insulator with pictures, also mentions the Leffert's CD 737
  • Oakman's Sept. 9, 1884 threaded mold patent
  • Additional blue glass listed CD 145 Postal and H.G.Co. in sapphire blue, CD 151 NATCO in peacock blue without inner dkirt drip points, CD 151 H.G.Co. in peacock blue with no NATCO marking.
  • Jack Tod assigns the threadless porcelain teapot U-990
  • Speculation on KCGW origins
  • Discussion on Brookfield insulators with B.G.M.Co. blot outs
  • Horned Elliot porcelain threadless insulators (U-980)
  • Information on the 7th National Insulator Show to be held in Berea, OH

May 1976:

• Insulator By-Lines by Joe Maurath - Pages 19-21
  • Corkscrew insulators CD 110.5 and CD 110.6 and the Lewis & Pope patents
  • Additional information on the Leffert's Hook ramshorn
  • CD 153 and CD 169.5 Brookfield insulators
  • CD 287.2 Brookfield insulators, both wide and narrow dome styles
  • Discussion of John C. Barclay based on a letter
  • Note from Dick Bauman on the Sixth Annual Midwest Insulator Swap and Show scheduled June 12 & 13 in Westerville, OH.
  • Joe Nolan question on a CD 102 B.G.M.Co. insulator

June 1976:

• Insulator By-Lines by Joe Maurath - Pages 18 & 19
  • The Southern Massachusetts Telephone Co. and Their Insulators - History on the company and the CD 102 ponies with their marking.
  • R.G. Vogelsang of Farmington, MO note on discovering CD 102 Star with wedge drip points.
  • Dan Kane of Lorain, OH question on a CD 121.4 AU insulator with a B mold number.
  • John McDougald of North olmsted, OH update on the seventh National Show to be held in Berea, OH
  • NIA notes presidential elections between Bob Alexander, Ruby Bryant, and Jim Garrity to be held.  Soliciting for a 1976 Eastern Regional.

July 1976:

• Bob and Phoebe Adams of Miami, FL display at the 1975 Birmingham, AL show - Page 6 
• Display by John Cothern of threaded and threadless glass - Cover and Page 12
• Bob Parks of West Monroe, LA display - Page 14
• Picture of Doug MacGillvary as a show dealer - Page 15

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