While sorting things in the display room, I ran across some vintage Polaroid snapshots of my collection in its infancy. (Taken before I had my first digital camera.) They were apparently taken to commemorate a first objective -- displaying one each of the major Western Electric sets up to the 500-series, including:
- Candlestick (20AL)
- Cradle Set (D-mounting)
- 300-type
- 5300-type
- 500-type in black and a color
Along the way, I picked up a few miscellaneous NE, AE, Kellogg, North and ITT Trendline sets -- plus a Design Line set or two.
They shared display space with mechanical calculators and vintage audio components.
Collection finished? Well, not quite.
Thanks to the internet, I quickly adopted some broader collecting objectives to take the collection to the next step.
As many know, Phonitis hit and things quickly got out of control -- resulting in a "downsizing auction" in 2015, which included over 3,000 items.
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=15023.0 (http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=15023.0)
Some of the items I particularly liked (and other related research) are documented in past forum posts and on my site:
http://www.paul-f.com (http://www.paul-f.com/)
Therapy is ongoing.