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Started by FABphones, January 28, 2021, 01:37:44 PM

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January 28, 2021, 01:37:44 PM
Can anyone please give some info on this.
Is it factory produced or an after market piece made from a subset?
Can anyone explain the holes?

Thanks.
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#1
January 28, 2021, 02:22:18 PM
Wow, now isn't that interesting!

Jack Ryan

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January 28, 2021, 05:48:38 PM
Quote from: FABphones on January 28, 2021, 01:37:44 PM
Can anyone please give some info on this.
Is it factory produced or an after market piece made from a subset?
Can anyone explain the holes?

Thanks.


It is a variation of a BTMC telephone. The holes allow a dial adaptor to be attached.

Some were made in the US when the Belgian factory was indisposed during and just after WW1.

Jack

tubaman

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January 29, 2021, 03:49:02 AM
I have this variation.
Yours appears to have an extra hole near the front of the case that I don't have.

I also have a slightly different one that I pictured in this thread - http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=22927.msg245660

FABphones

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January 29, 2021, 04:23:38 AM
Thanks for the replies guys. I think I will let this one pass me by. Looking at your images above I suspect there was a dial which has been removed. But if a nice Mercedes dial had been present....  8)
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January 29, 2021, 10:47:18 PM
that's an interesting phone
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