WANTED: Phones

Please contact me if you have ANY interesting or unusual phones for sale or trade.
Here are some areas I'm currently collecting.

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Any Western Electric 500 phone or parts dated in 1949 or thru June 1950.
Detailed photos also welcome.

(
This is for ongoing research for this page on the WE 500 series.)



No. 17 Hand Microphone (handset only)
for an American Electric 46 Grab-a-phone
(or whole phone)

Just need the handset



Western Electric Data Set 103G
Data phone with card reader

WE Data Set 103G



Prototypes and Field Test sets

just about any Western Electric set with a 5-digit F- or D- code on the bottom.

See the prototypes pages for more examples.

Executive Prototype       Magnetic Dialer
Executive Keyset                                                 Magneic Dialer  F-54165

F-52937 wall set       Dial In Handset      Capri Speakerphone   
Wall Set F-52937                            Dial In Handset F-52578                                   Capri Speakerphone                    
 
Trimline Field Test Set    302 Prototype
Trimline F-56093                    WE302 metal prototype

TouchTone Prototype     TouchTone Prototype
Touch Tone Prototypes with various button styles and layouts.

Touch Tone Princess
Princess Prototype with buttons in a rectangular reserve.

Selective Dialer
Selective Dialer 
F56466 



Teleconcepts, Inc. Phones

Interesting and unusual "modern art" sets in lucite or wood.
For example:

Teleconcepts EVE
Eve (rotary)
  
 
Teleconcepts Chrome Nouveau     Teleconcepts Executive Multi Line     Teleconcepts Mark II Wall Set
Chrome Nouveau        Executive (Multi Line)            Mark II Wall Set



Western Electric 300 Series Rotary Phones


  334 Receiver volume control (hookswitch knob has 3 positions)
412 Secretarial keyset
461 or 465 keyset with exclusion key

WE444 keyset



Western Electric 500 Series Rotary Phones
(Also the similar 1500 and 2500 TouchTone sets)

Model numbers are usually clearly marked on the bottom plate in ink.

Follow this link to the WE500 Types chart for details
 
WE544 gray  WE1512  WE2514
500-series                                   1500-series                           2500-series


Any 500 model in the following pre-1958 colors:
 
-52 Gray (Dark Gray, Oxford Gray)
-54 Brown (Mahogany Brown)

511X (with voice coupler)
512 (secretarial)
513B (Data-Phone keyset with lamp)
516B ("make-busy" turnkey and indicator lamp)
522 (elevator phone)
529 (No network, 12 conductor cord)
533 (Party line w/ receiver amplification)
535 (receiver amplification and push to listen button)
556 (party line wall set)
557 (wall set for long loop)
559 (party line wall set for long loop)
593 (wall, no ringer, no Bell System markings)
596 (COPAN military set)

565L keyset with turnswitch in rightmost position (exclusion key)


Any WE 1500-series phone (10-button touchtone pad), particularly Call Directors, Card Dialers and variations
(marked other than 1500D).
WE 1554 (wall set) in ivory (not beige or faded white).

WE 712BC Princess, secretarial
WE Princess phones with message waiting lights

WE 1702B Princess (10-button tone dial) in black or ivory

WE Trimline cords with message waiting light (H5AD)
ITT Trendline with message waiting lamp on the back of the handset
WE trimline handset with amplifier (e.g. 2226A handset)

WE 75x panel phone variations - keyset

Panel Phone - single line


Any WE Autovon set, Call Director, Card Dialer
(16-button keypad)

Autovon Call Director     Autovon Card Dialer

Any Dataset -- rotary or TouchTone

Unusual PBX consoles

63D Faceplate for this Comkey 416 set with HFAI (Model 983A) - any color:
Comkey speakerphone



Dials: WE #1, #2

Handsets: WE E5, F6, G12, G36, G66

Documentation:  WE BSPs (Old and New Numbering)
especially numbers C46.102 - C54.115, and
Division C60
Division G80

Divisions 500 - 520 (Station Sets, Consoles, Key Systems, Apparatus)

Color catalogs or brochures covering the Design Line series and phones in colors



Magnavox telephones

such as the B-1 or B-2
with distinctive handset such as this:

Magnavox-style handset
 

Please send comments or photos of your favorite phones to: 

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Sorry for the inconvenience.


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