Book excerpt: A basic guide to collecting glass insulators. Rather than offerer a detailed guide to glass insulator collecting, this is an attempt to offer a fundamentally basic guide to glass insulator collecting, with sufficient information to allow a new glass insulator collector to start collecting and learning more information at their own pace. Written by an experienced collector for people who know little to nothing about glass insulators, this book will enable you to start collecting right away, and to find more advanced information.