Awards National Insulator Association Best of Foreign "That is what collecting foreign insulators has been for me. The glass and porcelain representatives are always fussn', feudin', and fightin' for my heart strings. I collect insulators from outside of the United States because it is challenging to find contacts who have traveled worldwide to bring relics of communication back home. The "nosers" and "gingerbread men-teenagers-boys" speak of my collector's dilemma. The conflict between glass and porcelain seems to be at a standoff, with "guns" at point blank range challenging those "with their hands raised above their heads. Representative rare and colorful glass from Russia, England, Italy, France, Colombia, Argentina, Finland, Mexico, Mallorca, Poland and Portugal were fussin', feudin' and fightin' with colorful glazes, stripes and shapes of porcelain from Russia, eastern Europe, Australia, the Far East, Germany, Norway, Czech Republik and Switzerland.