I won this auction on eBay, I was the only bidder at $9.99:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/330693743350 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/330693743350)
I don't collect much telephone ephemera, mostly I blow my money on actual phones, but this one struck me as being especially classy:
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That's a Blake transmitter that guy is farting into!!!
Now that does appeal to my sense of humour!!! :D
And I have done that before.... :D
It honors the early pioneers of "farting around with phones"
- those curly lines emanating from the top of the Blake transmitter........ are they an early form of multiple reticulated cords? ............... or an artist's depiction of the rush of warm air, heading north?
I saw that and cracked up. Notice that the "lady" is handling a second transmitter in an odd manner.
Quote from: bingster on March 05, 2012, 07:03:21 PM
I saw that and cracked up. Notice that the "lady" is handling a second transmitter in an odd manner.
The mind, it boggles!!! :D
My mind was so boggled that I confused the extra receiver for a transmitter. :)
I regret to inform you that the plate has been lost by the PO. :( :( :(
Well darn, hope you get your money back at least... :(
At least though, you got the pictures, and it's still a very amusing image to look at... :D
The tracking number has it as delivered but I was home all day on the delivery date and no package.
Call up the PO, they can say where and when it was delivered as most of the tracking is electronic, and they will (or should) have an electronic signature to go with it...
If it ain't your signature, then someone's either signed for it at another address, or you have a thieving postman who decided to keep it for himself... :-\
Delivery confirmation just means that they drop it on your porch, you don't actually sign for. It was apparently dropped on someone else's porch. The PO says they'll keep an eye out, and asked me to confirm the address from the shipper, etc. My wife had a package disappear the same way on the same day.
There are actually thieves that follow FedEx, UPS, or USPS trucks around and wait for them to drop packages on a porch and then they swoop in a pluck them.
Over here in the UK, they have to deliver to a person for most parcels and packages, some posties will place some packages in a safe place if requested or if your yard is reasonably secure, but most of the time it'll either go back to the sorting office or go to a neighbour, to prevent people following delivery vans to steal parcels...
I am sticking this the top of the page in the hopes that some sharp-eyed member might spot it on eBay or the like. I have contacted the Interpol Registry of Stolen Art and Antiquities. At this point I can only hope. :'(
We had a parcel declared, "delivered" by the post office and we had not received it. A couple days later it arrived in one piece. I contacted the regional post office folks and they said that if the postal person delivered it to the wrong address by accident, it would show up as "delivered".
Luckily, the majority of folks are honest and will get an incorrectly delivered item back to the post office within a couple days.
Perhaps it will show up...
[Edit]...Whoops, I just noticed that the delivery should have taken place a long time ago...
Okay, I'm lost. You bought this close to a year ago. Did it NOT arrive in the mail and you are just now giving up on it ever arriving?
Terry
Check and see if you have a "helpful" neighbor.
I shipped a package one time and the buyers neighbor received it and put it in his hall closet and forgot about it.
Howard
So glad I live in a tiny town out in the Virginia Styx.
You could leave a gold brick in your driveway overnight and it'd be there in the morning.
QuoteOkay, I'm lost. You bought this close to a year ago. Did it NOT arrive in the mail and you are just now giving up on it ever arriving?
I will NEVER give up hope!
I think the drawing on the back is part of the gag, hence the name "The First Salute" on the front. It strikes me as something that was a one-off, perhaps as an inside joke, rather than something mass-produced. I was hoping to present this piece to the PBS show History Detectives, but I'm afraid that will never be.
Quote from: bingster on March 05, 2012, 07:03:21 PM
I saw that and cracked up. Notice that the "lady" is handling a second transmitter in an odd manner.
The second transmitter is actually used as a receiver. later they improved the transmitters.
Jim
there was a similar plate in one of the telephone collectors club newsletters many
20? years ago.I think it was a different shape and I think you held it up to light to see the other message.Same or very similar artwork