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I've heard the story in re: Australian aborigines. There are red glass insulators but they are very uncommon. On the other hand, I suppose if a batch were made from red glass they would probably end up along the same line of telegraph poles.
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: Ron May <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, August 8, 2007 3:06 am
Subject: Glass Insulators - Myth or Truth?
> Since a lot of the information passed on through HISTARCH is the
> sort of
> thing you might hear around a SHA bar table, I have a tale to
> impart that I
> heard at a Pecos Conference in Tucson, Arizona from the late Paul
> H. Ezell. He
> claimed the source of red glass projectile points in a particular
> part of
> Arizona were red glass telegraph pole insulators. He read an
> account that
> described an incident in which an Apache climbed a telegraph pole
> and chipped the red
> glass insulators off to be used as cores. I no longer recall the
> other men
> at the table, but several claimed seeing red glass flakes, core
> fragments and
> projectiles. Has anyone else here in this room heard that tale?
>
> Ron May
> Legacy 106, Inc.
>
>
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