My First Threadless Find

By Cory Conway; posted July 11, 2009
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This is an overview of what a friend of mine and myself found on Thursday. We walked into the woods (may I remind you, the area is 150+ years old, so it's pretty grown in) and followed the old pole lines, which, contained threadless, as the railroad ran up to the 1850's or so. Well, we branched away from the pole lines, which discouraged me from finding anything, but little did I know, the good stuff was nowhere near the line. Well, we looked around in the old factories, and discovered three new factories for the area. Then, just feet from the enterance of the ruins, a remainder of a CD 736 N.Y. &E.R.R.!!!!!!!!!! Well, I examined it, and didn't let it out of my sight, and then a little down the road, it finally hit me that it was definately a threadless, as the glass had a crude look and feel to it, the wire groove was worn down in comparison with a sample of telegraph wire I recovered and I looked up the remainder of the embossing, it turned out to be a CD 736 N.Y. & E.R.R. in light green aqua. The moment, bittersweet, yes, but very exciting something I never would have thought would just come out of nowhere. (This picture is an overview of my finds for the day.)

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