Auction 106: Rare 1939 Western Electric 302 Bakelite Prototype

[TelePlay]

$10,001.01

Harry, 5% would be at least $10,494. What say you?

[Jim Stettler]

I have seen 1 of these before. It had a field trial tag inside. The tag said to return to Bell Labs for repair. I think it sold for less than $600.


$1350.00 is my guess

Jim

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Edit: Guess change by Jim S. to $1,330.00 (5% below $1,400.00)

[wds]

My first guess would be that it won't exceed the reserve price.  Otherwise I'll go with $1600

[Dan]

I  guessed 995.96 not 9000+

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Edit:  Guess corrected in scorecard on 10-22 at 9:30 PM CST

[WesternElectricBen]

3,200 if that number isn't crowding anyone.

Ben

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Edit:  Guess modified, Ben,  to "split the difference" at $3,150

[Russ Kirk]

$2000

[TelePlay]

$2,125.00

[wds]

How do we know it's a WE and not a NE?  Just wondering because the base plate sure likes like the NE #1 phone.  Thanks

[rdelius]

It is WE .Just like mine except bakelite.It would not surprise me if WE  and  NE worked togather.The Uniphone? came first and was bakelite.If you look carefully, you will see a painted over field trial paper tag inside

[TelePlay]

The reserve was met and the phone was sold. So, a big congratulations goes out to DavePEI who stepped out of that pack of "one time winners" into the pack of "two time winners" with his guess of $2,750.00 being only $78.00 away from the sale price of $2,672.00.

DavePEI was the 4th to enter the contest and the reserve was not met until the last few minutes when the bids jumped from $1,025 to $2,672 in the final 90 seconds with a snipe by first time bidder f***f ( 882) 6 seconds before the auction ended to take the phone home.

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