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Telephone Talk => Collector's Corner => Large Hoards of Phones => Topic started by: ..... on October 15, 2017, 10:23:02 PM

Title: Another large hoard of phones found at a great price
Post by: ..... on October 15, 2017, 10:23:02 PM
A fellow collector gave me a heads up of a lady selling off her father collection. She had been holding on to it for a couple of years and it was now time to let it go. The other collector got first dibs and I was second. I went in today and bought it all. I have to stop doing this as my garage is getting full. LOL

I'll have to post the pictures in a few posts.
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Post by: ..... on October 15, 2017, 10:25:04 PM
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Post by: ..... on October 15, 2017, 10:26:55 PM
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Post by: ..... on October 15, 2017, 10:29:47 PM
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In the last picture, the lady's father is the man with the hat top back. He started with Bell when he was 18.
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Post by: Ktownphoneco on October 15, 2017, 10:41:14 PM
Doug    ....    All I can say is  ......  WOW !

Jeff
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Post by: ..... on October 15, 2017, 10:54:06 PM
Thanks Jeff.
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Post by: oldguy on October 15, 2017, 11:46:42 PM
What a find, congratulations & those were the leftovers😀😀😀
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Post by: NikeTelephone on October 16, 2017, 12:05:50 AM
    Yup im in the WOW category for sure!!

WOW!
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Post by: RotarDad on October 16, 2017, 02:04:40 AM
Most of us have to attend a phone show to see that kind of volume.......  ;)
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Post by: DavePEI on October 16, 2017, 05:52:59 AM
What can one say, but Holy Crap! Wow! Etc., etc., etc.
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Post by: Babybearjs on October 16, 2017, 06:39:23 AM
...and whats going to happen to all this stuff when its time for you to "let it go"????
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Post by: RB on October 16, 2017, 12:38:49 PM
Another WOW!
sweet find!
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Post by: dsk on October 16, 2017, 01:33:55 PM
Fantastic!  I always dream about something like that, at the same time I know I have to say now to keep my wife  8)

dsk
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Post by: Nick in Manitou on October 16, 2017, 04:20:34 PM
Very Cool!  Wow!  Congratulations!
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Post by: wds on October 16, 2017, 05:48:23 PM
Looks like a very nice high quality collection.  Congrats!
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Post by: twocvbloke on October 16, 2017, 06:31:57 PM
Quote from: Babybearjs on October 16, 2017, 06:39:23 AM
...and whats going to happen to all this stuff when its time for you to "let it go"????

At a guess, one of the next generation of collectors will collect it and place it in their garage too... ;D

Though I'm probably a bit young to think of such things, I have standing orders that if I "go", everything of mine is to be sold (bar any keepsakes that whoever sells my stuff wants to hold onto), no point keeping it around if the person who appreciated it is no longer there... :)
Title: Re: Another large hoard of phones found at a great price
Post by: ..... on October 17, 2017, 08:25:51 PM
I found a pleasant surprise in my haul. 
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Post by: Nick in Manitou on October 17, 2017, 11:06:13 PM
Very cool, "pleasant find"!

Nick
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Post by: monophone_lover on April 21, 2018, 12:50:28 PM
Awesome....
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Post by: kleenax on May 01, 2018, 10:45:41 PM
Nice haul sir!

Would have been interested in seeing what "Collector #1" made off with if you were just left with these old things ;-)
Title: Re: Another large hoard of phones found at a great price
Post by: PhilFone on June 06, 2018, 12:23:19 AM
I'm stunned. To me, as a modest holder of about 10 phones, I cannot fathom what to do with this many phones, other than erect a cheap building, charge an entrance fee and let people use these phones for a cost, connecting them via cable modem(s). Maybe you can build a row of different phone booths and use each one, again charging for the calls made. You'll need a group plan from Verizon, AT&T, etc. and then figure in enough profit. A working museum? I don't know...I'm just

O - V - E  - R  -  W  -  H  -  E  -  L  -  M  -  E  -  D !
Title: Re: Another large hoard of phones found at a great price
Post by: Dan/Panther on June 06, 2018, 12:09:06 PM
Are these items what remained after the first two collectors left, or is this the entire collection because the first two collectors couldn't make a deal ?
D/P
Title: Re: Another large hoard of phones found at a great price
Post by: ..... on June 06, 2018, 05:48:10 PM
Quote from: Dan/Panther on June 06, 2018, 12:09:06 PM
Are these items what remained after the first two collectors left, or is this the entire collection because the first two collectors couldn't make a deal ?
D/P

The first collector bought a few things, I being the second collector bought the rest.