Old Phone

[Kentucky Kache]

Any Ideas?

 

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[mojjax]

Neat phone! R those words on the front ?

 

[Kentucky Kache]

Yes, but I can't see it good enough to read it.
The receiver says, Bell system Western Electric Company.

 

[stefen]

1940's - 1950's rural-type multi-party line phone...

Had a similar phone on our farm...number of rings signified who a call was for.

1 ring for operator, 2 for Smith, 3 for Mills, 4...and so on...

Everyone listened in to all calls...

 

[Skrimpy]

I have an antique telephone table you can set that on for 200 bucks.

 

[Nashoba]

I can't say exactly what it is worth,but I had a garage sale awhile back and one guy asked specifically for old dial up or pre dial phones.He says he makes a killing selling them online...So my guess is it is worth a few bucks!
~Nashoba~

 

[COII Roadrunner]

Last one I bought cost me 45 dollars, keep droppin them in the lake on fishing trips

 

[Hardy]

Slowly the price of phones with the hand Crank is going up in value. aprox $85 Cnd funds. $70 us aprox

 

[crapshooter]

1940's - 1950's rural-type multi-party line phone...

Had a similar phone on our farm...number of rings signified who a call was for.

1 ring for operator, 2 for Smith, 3 for Mills, 4...and so on...

Everyone listened in to all calls...

I remember those days of party lines and everyone listening to everyone's call...or even joining in....that was before we had a television to keep us busy.

 

[Dimeman]

Nice phone !!!!! Crank it up style...