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January 1, 1998 - June 30, 1998

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June 25, 1998

• A new section Insulator Profiles has been added filled with detailed information about a number of popular styles of insulators.

June 22, 1998

• Two new poems by Dale Rose: Ode of a Beginner and The Dream.
• Improved "Search the Insulator Web Pages" - now you can also search for numbers!
• Updated Insulator Collector Pages.

June 11, 1998

• What’s Wrong With The Real Thing - An article about colored glass by Harry Rinker.
• Glass Blocks - a new Go-With!
• 1998 NIA show commemoratives for sale.

June 6, 1998

• "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue" - a National Show update.
• Crown Jewels of the Wire Photographs for June 1998.
• Updated Insulator Show Calendar and Bottle Show Calendar.

May 28, 1998

• The Collectors' Catalog of Colorful and Desirable Insulators
• Updated Insulators for Sale listings.
• Updated Collector's Pages.
• Updated Grading Standards section in the NIA Handbook.

May 9, 1998

• Dozens of photographs added to the Artificially Induced Colors NIA report.
• "The Tie That Binds" - a National Show update

May 4, 1998

• More than a half dozen new insulator photographs from common to rare, with information and descriptions for the beginner to advanced collector!
• CS, TS, CW, TW, CSA? Confused? Check the updated glossary for these terms! Thanks to Elton Gish and the Insulator Research Service for providing these.
• Crown Jewels of the Wire Photographs for May 1998.
• Updated Insulator Show Calendar and Bottle Show Calendar
• Finally, a decent drawing of an Anatomy of an Insulator with many more parts labeled.

April 13, 1998

• A great article on Artificially Induced Colors written by Dwayne Anthony in conjunction with the NIA Research and Authentication Committee.
• Quick Search! the for sale lists for Books, Go-Withs, and Porcelain Insulators.

April 5, 1998

• Crown Jewels of the Wire Photographs for April 1998.
• Updated Insulator Show Calendar and Bottle Show Calendar. Hope you you like the new output format!
• Miss some of the classic Insulators home page photographs? Take a look at the archives page!

April 1, 1998

• March Crown Jewels photos updated with new Porcelain Insulator News photos.
• "Up, Up, and Away" to the National Insulator Association Convention!

March 8, 1998

• Looking for insulators for sale? Try our new Quick Search! to search all the lists at once.
• Updated Bottle Show Calendar.

March 2, 1998

• Crown Jewels of the Wire Photographs for March 1998.
• Updated Insulator Show Calendar.
• "Lining Up For Shipment" - '98 National update.
• Some additional colorful Windows-95 start up screens!
• Improved Insulators For Sale listings, with colored bands to denote groups of CDs.

February 24, 1998

• It's that time again! www.insulators.com is two years old! Take a look back in the   "What's New?" archives.
• The book A History of the Electrical Porcelain Industry in the United States is available for purchase again. This is definitive book for all those non-pin-type porcelain insulator "what's it?" items such as specialty porcelain, knobs, cleats, and spools
• A modern day "Don't Shoot Insulators" in the news!

February 14, 1998

• Updated Code of Ethics in the NIA Handbook.
• New (well not really, but it is finally on the Home Page!) Download Area!

February 4, 1998

• A bakers dozen of great new Insulator Photographs and descriptions added. Expect to see more, now that your Webmaster has a new Olympus D500-L digital camera! (OK, a few of these images you have seen before, but these are much higher quality photographs!)
• See "Pressing For Business"; an update on the 1998 NIA National Convention.
• A couple of new Insulator Collectors Pages.
• Updated Bottle Show Calendar.

February 1, 1998

• Crown Jewels of the Wire Photographs for February 1998.
• Updated Insulator Show Calendar.

January 16, 1998

• Finally, a photograph of the CD 241 LOCKE in White Opalescent Glass
• Information on the 1998 National Insulator Association Convention.
• Updated Online Contacts list.
• New Insulators For Sale lists.

January 5, 1998

• Porcelain Insulator News photographs added to Crown Jewels of the Wire Photographs for January 1998.
• Take a look at the new photo of the CD 201 H.G.CO. recently found.
• Updated Bottle Show Calendar.
• The "What's New?" listings for July 1, 1997 - December 31, 1997 have been archived.

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