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Started by HarrySmith, October 15, 2015, 01:09:36 PM

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HarrySmith

A small yellow phone just sold on eBay. Auction # 301761270887. It was posted on Facebook. I have no pictures to post but it looks like nothing I have ever seen and is marked Bell Labs on the bottom. Any ideas or opinions??
Harry Smith
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poplar1

"C'est pas une restauration, c'est une rénovation."--François Martin.

19and41

That phone looks like it could have had any name imprinted on its touchpad, depending on who the importers sold them to for retail.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
— Arthur C. Clarke

poplar1

#3
I think they were part of the Western Electric Touch-a-Matic series.
Here is another example of the same model, also yellow, serial #2562.

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=9085.msg97280#msg97280

Here's another version from about the same time period: It's like the rust color TAM in the above topic.
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=2346.msg31192#msg31192
"C'est pas une restauration, c'est une rénovation."--François Martin.