WECo Continentals & Imperials--Recent Auctions

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WE 202s were remanufactured in the WE service centers in 1955-early 1956 as Continentals and Imperials. Continentals were usually the 302 colors--ivory, pekin red, or gray green. Imperials were gold. There was also a silver color (rhodium).

Pekin red Continental dated 1955. This one is from the estate of a man near Atlanta who used to install 2-way radios in Southern Bell and Ga. Power vehicles. He had acquired a good number of phones and parts dating from the 1960s and earlier, still in boxes, apparently surplused from a Southern Bell warehouse.

Sold for $209.99 postpaid on April 18, 2014.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Western-Electric-202-PEKIN-RED-Telephone-1955-/281309391652

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Imperial with 6D dial and 684BC subset with ivory painted cover. This one has a thermoplastic handset rather than a painted black Bakelite one.

Sold for $113.61 on April 25, 2014.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WESTERN-ELECTRIC-GOLD-IMPERIAL-TELEPHONE-W-SUBSET-AND-THERMOPLASTIC-HANDSET-/281315671078

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Imperial with 6D dial and painted handset=$109 April 11, 2014.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WESTERN-ELECTRIC-202-GOLD-IVORY-/221411238980