Child's handprint

By Paul Greaves; posted November 29, 2005

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This insulator bears a small handprint in the glaze, apparently the handprint of a child. It is the top of a New Lexington M-4325a, dated DEC. 19 1903 on the opposite side. I guess they were using child labor in the factory back then... it's almost kind of eerie looking at this thing, that child has lived his entire life and has most likely passed on by now. And Mike & I find it in the desert 100 years later. If he had not left the handprint (surely by accident) we would likely never know he (or she?) existed.

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