Month: October 2015

My Collection: Princess Telephone

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That $1 telephone I mentioned earlier was this guy (or girl)

If you know the history of Western Electric telephones from the late 60s, the Princess was basically marketed to women. This would be the first “chick phone”, way before the days of the RAZR, and other girly phones I have forgotten since the last decade.

The thing is so beaten up. The base is cracked, the bottom surface is breaking off and it doesn’t have the “Princess” logo on the bottom like other sets.

This is the same green colored phone similar to the 500 set that I got around 2008.

My Collection: Bells to a Bell Telephone

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I went to the Londonderry Flea Market (formerly known as Londonderry Gardens at the time) and found a vendor who had scrap phones for sale. I was able to get a couple bagfuls for about $25 and another telephone for $1. Not bad.

In this picture, I got a ringer. It looked like it came off a 564, which I did buy a set with it’s own ringer. I wanted to use this set of bell to make my own ringer to alert me outside a call is coming in.