About 150 of the green, purple, brown and clear glass ... where linemen would throw aging insulators after they were replaced on railway telegraph lines. When he finds them, they are hardly ...

Stanley, we were told, had amassed an enormous collection of glass telegraph insulators, which he had mounted on poles and fences throughout his yard. Not surprisingly, the property had come to be ...

Bill Burger remembers the day he fell in love with glass insulators. It was in the late ... was spent hiking a long-abandoned telegraph right-of-way in Wyoming, searching for buried glass ...