So I'm sitting in my office and I push back from my desk to take a break... That's when I look up at my bookshelf and focus my eyes on some of my trinkets and doodads.
That's when I remembered that this bottle of unsuspecting Ketchup was in fact a novelty phone. (Because everyone keeps condiments on their bookshelves).
I can't remember when or where I got it but sure enough it's been up there for at least 16 years.
Glad I took the time to look at the shelf, needed some dusting.
FWIW -- it's pulse dial BTW :)
That is too cool!
Saucy... ;D
Wonder what the strangest novelty phone out there is... the options are limitless
I have a Dale Earnhardt and a Richard Petty car phone. Saw a Coke bottle phone in collectible shop the other day.
I Think this is one of the stranger ones.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nose-Collectible-Novelty-Antique-Telephone-Phone/172806957661
( dead link 06-16-21 )
Jim S.
How about a Kraft Dinner Phone? :)
Quote from: NikeTelephone on February 28, 2018, 11:47:30 PM
How about a Kraft Dinner Phone? :)
Starting to get a whole pantry of phones ;D
I bought this phone years ago. Isn't it amazing what we will spend our money on!
<edit> I was tired of trying to figure out how that locomotive was staying in the tracks so I fixed it......Terry
Quote from: oldguy on March 03, 2018, 02:10:15 PM
I bought this phone years ago. Isn't it amazing what we will spend our money on!
I'll see your ketchup and raise you a cheeseburger!
Ok, I've tried everything I can think of. I can make the ketchup point left, right or upside down but not upright. This is the 1st time I tried taking a picture with my iPad & posting the picture with the same iPad.
Quote from: oldguy on March 03, 2018, 02:10:15 PM
I bought this phone years ago. Isn't it amazing what we will spend our money on!
I guess they made at least two of them. lol
Here is another one to add to your food collection:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/292472480517 ( dead link 06-16-21 )
A pizza phone!
There is a huge asst. of food and drink telephones. I have many of the ones in this book. I was buying them for the kids when they were small.
https://www.amazon.com/Collectible-Novelty-Phones-Schiffer-Collectors/dp/0764304720
When the book came out , Jim Davis was selling copies at telephones shows .
Jim S.
Thanks Terry.
My collecting novelty phones started with a nib Heinz ketchup bottle phone, I saw a bottle in a yard sale, next to it was a box with the picture of it, and the words "phone".
I saw the price $1.00 so I snatched it up, turns out it was brand new. I have never seen it before and thought I had a great find. That was the flagship of my novelty phones collection.
Whirlpool Telephone. Advertisement character phones are some of the rarest out there.
Superman cloth cape, superman molded cap, Pink panther in car. Original doughboy phone. All can sell @ $500+
Jim S.
That stove one is cool!
I'm guessing that Whirlpool one is for a Hotline........ ;D
No, that would be a from from Hotpoint.
Terry
Quote from: HarrySmith on March 23, 2018, 04:45:09 PM
That stove one is cool!
Which means it should really have been made by FridgidAire.
Terry
Quote from: Jim S. on March 23, 2018, 03:07:08 PM
Superman cloth cape, superman molded cap, Pink panther in car. Original doughboy phone. All can sell @ $500+
Jim S.
Any of these style base on the charecter phones are high $$$.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/180979177139?ul_noapp=true( dead link 06-16-21 )Please feel free to post the photos for this. This phone has been offered for a very long time, but eventually it will go away.
this is the same base as wonder woman and cloth cape superman.
Jim S.