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Collection (so far)

Started by electric al, February 24, 2015, 05:28:26 PM

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electric al

My collection (So Far)
Never met a phone I didn't like !

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It's a start, you'll have to pick up yourself a rotary NE/WE desk/wall phone.

unbeldi

I am partial to your red/black phone. Not just because it's red, which I like, but the design actually won international awards in the early 1980s.
But I don't think yours is the original award-wining version, which you should also get if you like that style of phone. They were originally made by the Yugoslavian company ISKRA, first introduced at the Ljubljana Electronics Fair in 1978. The designer Davorin Savnik gained fame for his designs.  The Modern Museum of Art in New York City has them in a design exhibit.
This style was imitated around the world in the 1980s and 90s.
In the US it was Telequest who copied them and named them Grandprix.

It it a Grandprix?

electric al

 It is a TELEMAX Model TM 3703  Made in Taiwan !
Never met a phone I didn't like !

unbeldi

I see. Thank you.
As I said... they were cloned around the world. I recall reading somewhere that someone estimated that over 200 million were made around the world of the style.