Odd Objects Found in Phones?

[Haf]

best before end 2001

[twocvbloke]

best before end 2001

At least they were already eaten...

[Haf]

Today's find: Mr Jeff Rosner (does anybody know him maybe?) forgot three business cards in my latest payphone along with a (not really odd) full! coin box. At first I was unhappy about higher shipping costs than normal but I got a full refund, even a phone for free and a tip on top

Haf

[DavePEI]

Today's find: Mr Jeff Rosner (does anybody know him maybe?) forgot three business cards in my latest payphone along with a (not really odd) full! coin box. At first I was unhappy about higher shipping costs than normal but I got a full refund, even a phone for free and a tip on top

Haf

Sounds like the deal of the Century!

Dave

[Haf]

Buying payphones sometimes is kind of gambling, but most times the house wins. This time I got the jackpot And yes, of course I will spend the win on another try, another payphone. And after all, I will win anyway as the phone is the goal of course, finding some money  is only a nice addition

I am just wondering about sellers not even being a little curious even if got full set of keys.

Haf

[Greg G.]

All I could think of was remnants of a big arachnid found in a 5302, then I remembered the "Final Notice" I found in my S/C 1216:

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=5176.0

[AE_Collector]

"Own Your High Profit Payphone from ProfitPhone Inc."

Too many "Profit's" in that statement for me. We all pretty much know that a "High Profit Payphone" in the COCOT era...NEVER EXISTED!

Terry

[poplar1]

"Own Your High Profit Payphone from ProfitPhone Inc."

Too many "Profit's" in that statement for me. We all pretty much know that a "High Profit Payphone" in the COCOT era...NEVER EXISTED!

Terry

Except maybe for the people selling the phones!

[AE_Collector]

Except maybe for the people selling the phones!

As long as they weren't the person who originally bought it for $2,000 plus.

Terry

[ESalter]

It's not an actual phone, but...

I just recently bought a KS 19442 Deluxe Glass indoor phone booth.  It was located in Texas, so I had to have it shipped to me.  It finally showed up yesterday, so I worked for a few hours today taking it apart to clean everything and such. I took one of the inside kick plates off and found a bunch of snake eggs inside the wall of the booth!  Most were hatched, and the couple that weren't were dried up inside(thank goodness!)  The last booth I got had half of it's weight made up from wasp nests, now this one has snakes!  I'm scared to see what will be in the next one.

---Eric

[AE_Collector]

What's the KS number on that carpet Eric!

Terry

[DavePEI]

It's not an actual phone, but...

I just recently bought a KS 19442 Deluxe Glass indoor phone booth.  It was located in Texas, so I had to have it shipped to me.  It finally showed up yesterday, so I worked for a few hours today taking it apart to clean everything and such. I took one of the inside kick plates off and found a bunch of snake eggs inside the wall of the booth!  Most were hatched, and the couple that weren't were dried up inside(thank goodness!)  The last booth I got had half of it's weight made up from wasp nests, now this one has snakes!  I'm scared to see what will be in the next one.

---Eric

Snake eggs are one thing -- I hope that you didn't see any snake eyes while you were working on it. Never mind Terry and the carpet -- I'd like to know the KS number of the eggs! I suppose it will have a suffix such as -A (empty), -B (full)!  

Dave

[Doug Rose]

I sold a 302 years ago that the buyer wrote me asking if I knew there was a Rolex watch inside! If I could describe it, he would send it to me. There are not a lot of hiding places inside a 302 and I did make it work. Never did get that Rolex back    ....Doug

[twocvbloke]

I'm scared to see what will be in the next one.

Badgers & mushrooms, you've already had the snake...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI

[Dennis Markham]

I posted a thread a few years ago about a numbered piece of paper inside a soft plastic 500 that I'd been given.  I left the paper inside the phone, but still don't know its significance.

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=1265.msg16017#msg16017

Also, on my blog I wrote about some spiders that raced up my arm when I removed a gong from a 500:

http://www.vintagerotaryphones.com/?p=19

(Wow, that was a long time ago....2006!)