Nov 7 San Jose phone show report

[McHeath]

Had a jolly good time at the phone show in San Jose today.  It was held at a church site, in a nice older neighborhood.  About 10 venders were displaying wares, mostly older stuff like candlesticks and wood phones, with some early plastics and bakelite.  Not a whole lot of post WW2 stuff, and not the parts extravaganza I was hoping for, but I did manage to get a couple of items on the need list.

[McHeath]

Here is a rare bird.

(not the piggie)

[McHeath]

For you dial lovers out there:

[Phonesrfun]

I am jealous.  Wish I could have made the trip.

-Bill

[McHeath]

These all belonged to the same fellow, you can see his picture on the magazine cover.

[McHeath]

You would not have won the prize for furthest traveled Bill, there was a man there from Australia, he came especially for this show.

[McHeath]

An odd artsy lampstand for a candlestick.  This guy had some really nice and clean stuff for sale.

[JorgeAmely]

Excellent reporting McHeath.  Thanks for the pictures. 

[McHeath]

A few shots of the goods.  The princess phones were 2 bucks each, or 2 phones for 3 dollars.  I bought a moss green one, could not stop myself.

The red 554 was interesting, but not on my list.  Near it was a NOS WE 302 for 75 bucks, a very clean and shiny phone.  There were several boxes of misc parts for 500s and 554s under the table, great buys, I paid a dollar for a new in the bag moss green hardwired handset cord and one dollar for a red plastic 500 shell.  He had a box full of 554s parts, including a color change kit still in the bag.

[McHeath]

This was for $125.  The headrest was odd, the paint seemed like factory. 

[McHeath]

Now for the most surprising thing about the day, my wife ended up buying more phones than I did!  She bought two wall mount Trimlines, an orange one and a yellow one, they were both super clean.  Never thought I'd see the day.

[McHeath]

Here is the haul once we got it home.

Yellow Trimline, 9/1967
Orange Trimline, 10/1980
Moss Green Princess, 3/1973
Red 500 shell, 1966
Moss Green 15' handset cord, NOS, 1975
Rust 15' handset cord, NOS, unknown year
Wall mount plate for a 1554/2554 series, NOS, 1982
Original AT & T "The Telephone Story" poster, 1969 edition.

Total price, $39 for all.  

[Phonesrfun]

Heath:

You did real good!

[bellsystemproperty]

I got a bunch of cool stuff, including a neat Australian phone for $2, and a rotary phone compatible pbx. I'll post more in the morning. I didn't see you there McHeath.

[Jester]

I wish I could have gone!!  I was in Redding from the 22nd through the 25th of October for Grandma's birthday, but job commitments prevailed & I couldn't stick around for the show.  They don't hold such things where I live, but, one of these days...