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Started by HarrySmith, April 02, 2020, 07:10:24 PM

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HarrySmith

Just found this gem on eBay. Seller states "Incredible Patina". Looks to me like bad red paint peeling off. Somebody ruined an AE 40 with a really bad paint job and now it is Patina!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Vintage-Rotary-Telephone-Phone-Desk-Table-Red-Black-Incredible-Patina/143570953958
Harry Smith
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tubaman

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Quote from: HarrySmith on April 02, 2020, 07:10:24 PM
Just found this gem on eBay. Seller states "Incredible Patina". Looks to me like bad red paint peeling off. Somebody ruined an AE 40 with a really bad paint job and now it is Patina!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Vintage-Rotary-Telephone-Phone-Desk-Table-Red-Black-Incredible-Patina/143570953958

I prescribe a large dose of paint stripper to fix those nasty red sores.
;D

FABphones

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 :D  :D  :D

Seller says it looks like Hitler's phone which sold for $243,000.
(CRPF thread: http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=17591.0)

The resemblance is uncanny.  ;D
A collector of  'Monochrome Phones with Sepia Tones'   ...and a Duck!
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countryman

There's a sucker born every minute is the phrase that comes into mind...
Well that applies to both of the deals.

tubaman

Quote from: FABphones on April 03, 2020, 04:19:15 AM
:D  :D  :D

Seller says it looks like Hitler's phone which sold for $243,000.
(CRPF thread: http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=17591.0)

The resemblance is uncanny.  ;D

He's right - they both look like tatty, badly painted, telephones. ;D

Pourme

~

Here is a phrase that makes me shake my head every time I see it, and it is catching on among sellers.

Has no meaning at all...

"condition is used"

"Used" is NOT a condition.
Benny

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19and41

If you have lemons.....
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
— Arthur C. Clarke

RB

Thats Toooooo funny!

dsk

I have some older phones that I want to keep with the patina of years of use, but it is a pint of too much, and the nit has to be restored  back closer to original/new look.

To be a good seller may be using words in a different manner.

If I see an ad were they sell a house with potential, I know that you have to do a lot with it, so maybe this should have been sold as a vintage phone with a great potential??

dsk