Colin Jung Biography

I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1958 where I currently reside with my wife May. We have been married 21 years and have two great, college-age daughters, Alesia and Christina. I work as a city planner for the City of Cupertino and May is a registered nurse for a local children’s hospital.

As a youth I collected many things: coins, stamps and baseball cards, but did not discover insulators until many, many years later. In 1998, I discovered Ebay and went to a garage sale to seek things I could sell. There I purchased an old bucket of bottles and insulators. I did some on-line insulator research and the rest is history. I got off to a fast start, purchasing two estate insulator collections before I really knew anything about insulators and attend my first show as a dealer.

Nowadays, I specialized in collecting insulators made by the California Glass Insulator Company/California Glass Works and porcelain fogbowl insulators. I have immensely enjoyed my time in the hobby and try to contribute as much as I can as a collector, dealer, club member and NIA member. I am a lifetime member of the Golden State Insulator Club and serve as president for three years when it was the Nor-Cal Insulator Club. Currently, I am the club’s newsletter editor. In 2003, I helped organize the NIA Western Regional and served as co-host of the 2005 San Jose National. I have been the NIA Executive Secretary since the 2008 National under the Bob Stahr presidency.

Colin Jung, NIA #7055

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