Find of the Month - January 2014

[AE_Collector]

Post your "Find of the Month" for January 2014 here.

A "Find of the Month" is an item that you acquired within the last month or so that you are particulatly excited about either because of its rarity, the difficulty you had in trying to find one for your collection or the exceptional "deal" you got on it etc.

Please pick your best "Find" to submit for the month limiting your entries to one Phone item OR One "Find" that might include multiple items. If you have already entered for the month and come up with something even better either submit your new find indicating that it replaces your previous entry OR you can enter your new Find for next months contest.

TelePlay has grabbed pictures of all of the "Find of the Month" winners since we started this back in 2010 and he has put them into albums on PhotoBucket. Thanks John.

To check them out, click --> HERE <--

Terry

[WesternElectricBen]

AE Collecter,

I think you need to change what you wrote from Post your "Find of the Month" for December 2013 here." to Jan. 2014, like you said in the title. And also the link to John's photobucket does not seem to be operational. EDIT:  Link has been fixed

I don't mean to scrutinize, but just for you information.

Ben

[Contempra]

I second Ben, the link doesn't work.

[WEBellSystemChristian]

I love looking at the FOTM winner pictures. It just keeps me wondering, " What will those crazy forum members find next?"

[TelePlay]

The link to the library of the last 4 years of the contest now works. You can click on it in the first post above or --> HERE <--

[TelePlay]

I'd like to nominate the 2 colored 302's found by Argee at an antique dealer who was moving out of state for $20 each. Will need to see more pictures of these, when you get them open and before and after they are cleaned up, at the original topic listing -

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=10893.0

Quite a deal and no shipping charges.

[LM Ericsson]

I would like to nominate my 1957 Western Electric Soft Plastic 500 in Light Gray purchased for only $40 at the antique store.

[Argee]

thanks for the nomination.  I've added interior pictures of the 302s in the original topic.

[Contempra]

@LM Ericsson . Depending at what angle the phone is, it seems very light blue on one picture. i've never seen a grey or light grey one..it's a nice one anyway.

[kleinkaliber]

I'd like to nominate my pink ten button 1554. $50 buy it now on Ebay.

[Contempra]

I'd like to nominate my pink ten button 1554. $50 buy it now on Ebay.

Nice one Kleinkaliber

[GTE Rick]

Found this Digipulse Kangaroo Phone at the Long Beach Flea market for $20.  The phone needs some cleaning but the pouch is in excellent condition!

[Matilo Telephones]

Nice find. But please shave your legs before you start to do modelling work with your phones.

[DavePEI]

Found this Digipulse Kangaroo Phone at the Long Beach Flea market for $20.  The phone needs some cleaning but the pouch is in excellent condition!

Never found a Kangaroo phone here, but I do have an orange Doodle phone (same as Kangaroo minus pouch). For some reason the Kangaroo version seems to be very hard to find around here. Nice one!

Dave

[Greg G.]

Nice find. But please shave your legs before you start to do modelling work with your phones.