Holy Grail Of WE500 Sets

[unbeldi]

You should probably upgrade the rum to French Cognac.

[AE_Collector]

Or at least Appleton, Mount Gay or Meyers.

Has anyone determined who bought it?

Terry

[WesternElectricBen]

I think the seller is on the forum and he said that he acquired the phone recently from an antique store.

Ben

[TelePlay]

I think the seller is on the forum and he said that he acquired the phone recently from an antique store.

Ben

Link ?

[WesternElectricBen]

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=12769.msg134174#msg134174


Ben

[baldopeacock]

D/P, I'm really sorry you didn't get this.   

[Dan/Panther]

D/P, I'm really sorry you didn't get this.   

Baldopeacock, Not to sound childish, but so am I. I just pray the phone is done justice.
I wish the party that won, if on here would keep us informed of it's progress.
D/P

[Dan/Panther]

Does anyone know who won the 49 500 phone ?
I sure hope it doesn't just disappear into paranoia.
A phone like that needs to be shared with the forum, and any Restoration should be also.

D/P

[Dan/Panther]

If what I've heard is correct, we'll never see that phone again.
D/P

[WEBellSystemChristian]

Well, at least we can add one more field trial 500 to the list of known sets...

Sorry, Dan!

[Dan/Panther]

I always try to maintain a level head when it comes to controversy, But I will say here and now. I dislike with a passion, people that buy into hobby for speculation only. They buy, hoard, wait to jack up the price them dump. It artificially inflate costs.
When I won the Field Trail set, I made it as much of a group adventure as I possibly could. The 49-500 will most likely never see the light of day, let alone get it's proper restoration, whether by myself or anyone else. I had a figure of $1200.00 for a highest bid, I don't know if that would have been enough, but I wish now I had changed to the higher bid.

D/P

[baldopeacock]

You'd have to have set up a last-second sniper bid, Dan, and then you still don't know if $1200 would have done it.    Deep pockets can win about anything they want.   

[WEBellSystemChristian]

It's annoying when some collector with pockets of gold throws a snipe at me on an ebay item that I want, but don't want to spend too much money on. Just the other day, I had a bid in for a beautiful yellow soft plastic 554 for $25, but someone sniped me up to $50!

At least when I buy something unusual or special, I try to post here what I can, I make note of what I fix/replace, and I always try to show quality 'after' pictures.

[Dan/Panther]

I will continue to seek a 49-500. One day it will proudly sit next to the 48 field trial set.  My hope is some day there will be a well funded and established permanent museum of communications that i can donate both sets to when I go to the big phone booth in the sky.

D/P