The release of the book
In Flagrante Collecto
(caught in the act of collecting)
Reporter: Bill Meier
A new book "In Flagrante Collecto" has just been published that
features a spread on insulators. The book contains information on over 300
collectables and has over 1,000 color photographs. Bill Meier was contacted by
the author, Marilynn Gelfman Karp, who was fascinated with the color and quality
of the photos she saw on www.insulators.com.
She told Bill about her new book, and asked if Bill was willing to provide her
with some high resolution photographs for possible inclusion in the book. Of
course Bill was interested!
Bill photographed 32 colorful photos of various colors and shapes of
insulators from his and his wife Jill's collection and sent them to Marilynn. In
total, 18 of these were used in the book, and spread across two pages. Bill's
two favorite insulators, a CD 112.4 in Golden Amber and a CD 164 HGCo in Peacock
Blue were some that were included on the pages. Given that the book had 1,000
photos, that means insulators got an almost 2% photo coverage, and this is from
a group of over 300 collectables. Not a bad showing...
There was a general write-up about insulators, which twice mentioned the
great information on www.insulators.com.
For each insulator shown, there was a footnote which included the color, Primary
Embossing, CD number, approximate date of production, and the height of the
insulator. Not bad information for a general collectables book. One of the
insulators, a CD 257 in Electric Blue was also used on the Table of contents
page about insulators. Insulators are listed in Chapter 4, "Obsolescence & The Better
Mousetrap", on pages 52 and 53. 8 other collectables are included in
Chapter 4.
The two page spread included
these insulators on page 52, and
these other insulators on page 53.
These two pages created quite a colorful addition to the book, and Marilynn
remarked to Bill that "he would be pleased" with the insulator presence in the
book. WOW! Yes, he definitely was...
More information about the book with a more detailed write-up and a section
about the author, can be found at
Amazon.com, or visit the web site
In Flagrante Collecto.
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Written Tuesday, May 2, 2006
