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A bit about me...

I am currently employed at Rasputin Music in Campbell. Our web site contains an online store if you happen to be shopping for your favorite music. I dress in gothic fashion-all black and a bit of white. The gothic style was popular around the time 1700-1800 and began to fade shotrly before insulators were produced. Just to put the connection to insulators into clear perspective, William Hemingray was born on 14 January 1790 in England and Robert Hemingray (his son and founder of the Hemingray Glass Company) was born on 22 June 1820 in Pennsylvania.

HOW I GOT STARTED COLLECTING

I remember my first two insulators were Hemingrays. A CD 106 (Aqua) and A CD 122 (Hemingray Blue). I can't remember how I decided to start collecting but I do remember what really got me motivated. I was visiting my aunt in the state of Washington in 1994 and I was bringing an arm full of misc. Aqua/Clear insulators to the register in an antique store when the man at the register told me that he had a purple one for sale. I had never seen a purple insulator before not even a picture of one. Purple is my favorite color and once I saw it I had to have it. It was a CD 154 Whitall Tatum Co. No1 in Purple. I paid him $18 dollars for it and it is in mint condition. It is still today one of my favorite glass insulators. After having bought my first Purple insulator, I knew there had to have been much more out there to come. From then on up to this day I am always looking for new insulators to add to my collection.

(my favorite insulator-H.G. CO. in royal purple) I'm currently 19 years old and I have been collecting insulators since 1994. I've gotten my insulators from Antique stores, Garage Sales, Thrift shops, Flea Markets, Antique Fairs, and of course Insulator Shows. I have enclosed a simplified insulator list of my collection (reference-McDougalds 1995 Price Guide).

MY INSULATOR LIST

CD 100 [030].....Surge.....Clear CD 101 [050].....Brookfield.....Aqua CD 102 [140].....Brookfield.....Light Aqua CD 102 [060]....."Diamond".....Brown Amber CD 102 [060]....."Diamond".....Light Green CD 102 [060]....."Diamond".....Olive Green CD 102 [010].....N.E.G.M. CO......Blue Aqua CD 102 [010].....S.F......Green Aqua CD 102 [050]....."Star".....Light Green CD 106 [010].....Maydwell.....Clear CD 106 [060].....McLaughlin.....Light Green CD 108 [030].....Whitall Tatum.....Clear CD 115 [020].....Hemingray.....Blue Aqua CD 115 [020].....Whithall Tatum Co......Light Peach CD 121 [010].....A.T.& T. Co......Aqua CD 121 [010].....Brookfield.....Green CD 121 [010].....McLaughlin.....Green Blackglass CD 121 [010].....Good.....Light Aqua CD 121 [010].....W.G.M. CO......Royal Purple CD 122 [070].....Hemingray.....Hemingray Blue CD 122 [020].....McLaughlin.....Light Green CD 122.4 [020]...PYREX.....Clear (w/wire) CD 128 [100].....PYREX.....Clear CD 128 [010].....PYREX.....Off Clear CD 129 [020].....Armstrong.....Clear CD 129 [010].....Hemingray.....Clear CD 133 [030].....Brookfield.....Light Aqua CD 133 [100].....Brookfield.....Light Aqua CD 133 [230].....Brookfield.....Light Aqua CD 133 [020].....No Name.....Light Blue CD 134 [030].....T-H.E. Co.....Light Blue Aqua CD 143 [120].....Canadian Pacific.....Light Aqua CD 143 [010].....C N R.....Light Aqua CD 145 [010].....B.....Light Aqua CD 145 [010].....California.....Sage CD 145 [050].....H.G. CO......Clear (w/snow) CD 145 [140].....H.G. CO......Sky Blue CD 145 [090].....Brookfield.....Green Aqua CD 151 [010].....Brookfield.....Aqua CD 151 [140].....H.G. CO......Aqua CD 152 [040].....Brookfield.....Olive Green CD 152 [010].....California.....Smoke Purple CD 154 [170].....Hemingray.....Dark Hemingray Blue CD 154 [050].....Whitall Tatum Co......Peach CD 154 [010].....Whitall Tatum Co......Purple CD 160 [010].....California.....Grey CD 160 [020].....California.....Purple CD 162 [030].....Brookfield.....Aqua w/amber swirls CD 162 [070].....H.G. CO......Aqua CD 162 [070].....Hemingray.....Dark Red Amber CD 162 [010].....Lynchburg.....Sage CD 162 [010].....Maydwell.....Pink CD 162 [050].....McLaughlin.....Sky Blue CD 162 [010]....."Star".....Yellow Green CD 162.4 [010]...No Embossing - Canada.....Aqua CD 162.5 [010]...P.R.R......Aqua CD 163 [010].....Hemingray.....Clear CD 164 [010].....Maydwell.....Gingerale CD 164 [080].....McLaughlin.....Light Cornflower Blue CD 164 [160].....McLaughlin.....Emerald Green CD 164 [160].....McLaughlin.....Light Green CD 165 [010].....Hemingray.....Clear CD 167 [010].....Armstrong.....Clear CD 203 [010].....Hemingray.....Clear CD 208 [040].....Hemingray.....Hemingray Blue CD 213 [040].....Hemingray.....Aqua CD 257 [040].....Hemingray.....Aqua