While Mike was at the Erie show this past Saturday, I got a chance to go hunting for 2 hours in the afternoon. I found a spot where the recent rains had washed out a small gully beside the tracks, and right away I spotted this light blue aqua 143 No Embossing - Canada [065], deposited on a high area of rocks. As I went to pick it up, behind a bush there was a second insulator, a 143 RB double threaded. Then I looked under a tree growing in the middle of the creek bed, and there was a third insulator: a cracked, but intact 143 Montreal. All three had probably very recently been washed out of the embankment, because the outer surfaces were shiny and in pretty good shape.

When I got home, I washed up the cannonball first, and hid it just as Mike, Manfred Hager, and Susan (Manfred's wife) were coming in the door. I showed them the other two first and then pulled it out of the cabinet. Needless to say, everyone was impressed with my finds, especially with the cannonball's waterfall that flows into a huge carbon bubble (see the next picture for a close-up). Although I've been trying real hard, I haven't found many intact insulators this year, so this made my day, and made missing the Erie show a little more bearable.

Good hunting! >>Debbie<<