WE teledome / dome phone?

[FABphones]

Spotted this currently listed for auction.

Does anyone know about these, nothing comes up in a search, and nothing written on bottom of phone re model number etc.

[tubaman]

Here's another, somewhat more expensive, one - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mid-Century-Space-Age-Acrylic-Teledome-Rotary-Telephone-Functional-EX/283736747382 - this is marked Teleconcepts and built under license.


Apologies for the upside-down photo, but that's how it is on the listing!

[rdelius]

These  used ITT parts but not built by ITT

[Jim Stettler]

These were made by a novelty telephone makers. Typically these builders used SC or ITT parts. Sometimes  AE. sometimes the handsets are chrome plated with  imperial type plating. sometimes the guts are spray painted white .
Teleconcepts was one of the companies. that made the plexiglass type phones. There were quite a few different clear plexi type phones made.
Paul Nelson Industries also produced a lot of different novelty telephones.
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You can find some photos and information about these phones in some of the telephone books by TAB publishing.
One of them is :
All About Telephones Hardcover – February 1, 1979
by Van Waterford  (Author)
  I think there are 2 other similar books by TAB
Jim

Jim

[Key2871]

Right, I have seen sets but by that company before.
They built all sorts of differant sets. Out of plexi and wood.
They looked kind of neat, and all parts were ITT. So they worked for years.

[Jim Stettler]

When in doubt check Paul F.'s site
http://www.paul-f.com/Teleconcepts.html

There are a lot of models that I hadn't seen before.
Jim

[paul-f]

Jim beat me to the enter key.

There's also a two page flyer with prices in the TCI Library: https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/search?q=teledome

A Google search for "Teledome telephone" also produces many references and images.