Did You See That eBay Blue 302?

[George Knighton]

Did you see that Blue 302 on eBay?

Went for $1225.00 plus shipping, even with the crack in it.

0.o

I don't think I'm ever going to have a Blue.  They're just too rare and ridiculously expensive.

Keeping my eyes open for a Green instead.  That seems a more likely complement to my Ivory and Old Rose.  :-)

[LarryInMichigan]

It leaves me feeling blue

[Dan/Panther]

It's also ridiculously cracked.
D/P

[sebbel]

I'd be happy with a white one... Never even seen one in person. I dont think they made it to Canada. Not to Nova Scotia anyway.

[Doug Rose]

Tough phones are keeping their price up even in this condition...Doug

[poplar1]

I'd be happy with a white one... Never even seen one in person. I dont think they made it to Canada. Not to Nova Scotia anyway.

When I lived in Montréal in 1973, my roommate told me her mother had an ivory 302. I believe that it had been installed by Bell Canada.  I told her to bring it and I would hook it up. The handset wires had been disconnected but once they were reconnected, it worked fine. I don't recall now whether it was Northern Electric or Western Electric, or maybe WE plastics and the other parts NE.

I do have a NE 500 in aqua blue, c. 1957, that has WE plastics. Not sure that it was originally like that but it doesn't appear to be a cobbled phone. Perhaps NE did not yet have that color in production.