Tommy took advantage of being interviewed to promote insulator collecting. Grant wrote, Bolack displays his insulators in lighted glass cases mounted on walls and in front of windows and arranged among his other possessions—a frontier-era Gatling gun, a their makers and displayed on their original tree branches. Boxes of explosives are wedged under the desk where he spins the 45s for his Sunday radio show. A coil of fuse lies among salts used to color explosions. The insulators, though, seem to be his greatest source of pride. Bolack is what’s called a CD collector in insulator parlance, meaning that he wants one of every consolidated design, or, essentially, make and model. He has a model of one insulators from the Transcontinental Telegraph Line. The racks and rows of Technicolor insulators, each with a story that Bolack’s quick to relate, speak to decades of commitment to the hobby.
The full article in New Mexico Magazine can be found online at: https://www.
newmexico.org/nmmagazine/about-us/ Later issues are online now, so you’ll have to search the site’s archives for the article about Tommy. The magazine is also published in hard copy form. To request a copy, phone 505-476-0204.
Collecting
Tommy was also featured in the May 8th issue of Coin World magazine. The article reported, New Mexico collector Tommy Bolack now owns an even dozen of the known (2000)-
P double-denomination mule error coins featuring a George Washington obverse from the State quarter dollar series and the Soaring Eagle reverse from the Sacagawea dollar. Bolack’s latest acquisition brings to 12 the number of examples he owns among the now 16 known examples.
Coin World described the error as follows, A mule error is a coin or medal struck with dies not intended to be used together. In the case of this double-denomination mule error, an obverse die from a State quarter dollar was set into a coinage press at the Philadelphia Mint in 2000 and mated with a reverse die from the Sacagawea dollar, in essence creating a $1.25 coin. The coin was struck on a manganese-brass clad dollar planchet on a press dedicated to Sacagawea dollar production. The error coin appears without the date of issue because neither die in the mismated pair was designed to carry the date. The date for Sacagawea dollars appears on the obverse of a normal coin. On State quarter dollars, while the Mint coins.
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