Insulator buffs here May 1
Posted Mar 4, 2010 By EMC News
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Chris Must, Perth EMC
Perth Bank of Montreal manager Jim Jarvis and staff recently presented Jennifer Jardine of the Lanark Animal Welfare Society (LAWS) with a $300 donation toward the shelter.
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EMC Events - Art can take many forms. For North America's insulator collectors, the coloured glass and porcelain telegraph, telephone and power insulators of yesteryear have a beauty all their own, and certainly prove the old adage that "they don't make 'em like they used to."
Chris Must, Perth EMC
The United Way of Lanark County recently received a $1,150 boost thanks to the staff of the Perth Bank of Montreal branch. Manager Jim Jarvis presents the cheque to United Way executive director Sarah Bridson.
Some of the worlds more than 2,000 insulator collectors will converge on the Perth Lions Hall Saturday, May 1 for the Ottawa Valley Insulator Collectors' 12th annual insulator show.
The show, open to the public from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., will feature display and sales tables offering a variety of antique insulators along with accessories such as signs, insulator strains, lighting rod balls and more. There will be displays of early threadless and threaded telephone and telegraph insulators, and even a "traveling road show" offering free appraisals.
Admission to the show is by voluntary admission.
Glass insulators were first produced in the 1850s for use with telegraph lines. As technology developed insulators were needed for telephone lines, electric power lines, and other applications. In the mid-1960s a few people began collecting these antique insulators.
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