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Let's crown the "Find of the Year" GRAND CHAMPION  (VOTE FOR THREE)

This poll will determine the BEST of the "best Find" from each of the past 13 years.

To qualify, the phone had to win a "Find of the Year" contest. The FOTY contests were run from 2010 through 2022.

Go through each of the nominations. Each includes a brief description of the phone, a link to its original nomination and an image of the phone.

Each member has Three Votes to play their part in picking the over all "Find" Grand Champion.

The winner gets once in a lifetime bragging rights for their Grand Champion "Find" and a brand new virtual "Grand Champion" Trophy.


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QUICK REFERENCE:  FIND OF THE YEAR WINNER'S LIST

2010 - ritchie  **  Mahogany AE 34 from an antique shop
2011 - Esalter  **  Rose Beige 54 500 with gray straight cords
2012 - MagicMo  **  1964 Picturephone
2013 - paul-f  **  Almost Clear & "Slightly Miniature" AE 34
2014 - LarryInMichigan  **  Red Western Electric 500U dated 12-58
2015 - wds  **  American Electric Fluted Shaft Candlestick
2016 - Roody  **  Jade Green AE 50 with Gold Trim
2017 - Gary Millam  **  Western Electric blue 302
2018 - Roody  **  1896 Stromberg-Carlson Roman Column Candlestick
2019 - LarryInMichigan  **  Mediterranean Blue Kellogg DK-500 "Banjo"
2020 - magicbrain  **  Strowger Candlestick
2021 - Kenton K  **  Western Electric Oxford Grey 501
2022 - LarryInMichigan  **  Red AE 40 with gold trim

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2010's "Winner":

ritchie's Mahogany AE 34 from an antique shop

Here is the original Find of the Year nomination:
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=11174.msg119441#msg119441

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2011's "Winner":

Esalter's Rose Beige 54 500 with gray straight cords

Here is the original Find of the Year nomination:
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=11173.msg119434#msg119434

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2012's "Winner":

MagicMo's 1964 Picturephone

Here is the original Find of the Year nomination:
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=11167.msg119347#msg119347

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2013's "Winner":

paul-f's Almost Clear & "Slightly Miniature" AE 34

Here is the original Find of the Year nomination:
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=10880.msg116317#msg116317

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2014's "Winner":

LarryInMichigan' Red Western Electric 500U dated 12-58

Here is the original Find of the Year nomination:
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=12823.msg134768#msg134768

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2015's "Winner":

wds' American Electric Fluted Shaft Candlestick

Here is the original Find of the Year nomination:
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=13540.msg141591#msg141591

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2016's "Winner":

Roody' Jade Green AE 50 with Gold Trim

Here is the original Find of the Year nomination:
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=15474.msg160825#msg160825

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2017's "Winner":

Gary Millam' Western Electric blue 302

Here is the original Find of the Year nomination:
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=17511.msg180875#msg180875

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2018's "Winner":

Roody's 1896 Stromberg-Carlson Roman Column Candlestick

Here is the original Find of the Year nomination:
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=19551.msg200564#msg200564

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2019's "Winner":

LarryInMichigan' Mediterranean Blue Kellogg DK-500 "Banjo"

Here is the original Find of the Year nomination:
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=23326.msg234008#msg234008

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2020's "Winner":

magicbrain' Strowger Candlestick

Here is the original Find of the Year nomination:
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=23454.msg234999#msg234999

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2021's "Winner":

Kenton K's Western Electric Oxford Grey 501

Here is the original Find of the Year nomination:
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=24709.msg244855#msg244855

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2022's "Winner":

LarryInMichigan's Red AE 40 with gold trim

Here is the original Find of the Month nomination:
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=26234.msg255757#msg255757

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Time to crown the best Find of the Year.

Poll is open for 7 days.

Each members gets 3 votes.

Just 3 days left to place your vote for the CRPF "Find of the Year" Grand Champion.

It's a wrap! The best of the best finds of the year has been crowned.

Congratulations to MagicMo for winning the Find of the Year "Grand Champion" poll with 53% of the votes cast in the Best of the Best poll. Her find got 10 votes, the 2 next closest entries received 5 votes each.

Her find, back in 2012, was a complete 1964 WE Model 1 Picturephone that her father, a Bell worker for some 40 years in the Chicago area, had managed to put away in his attic. "Complete" means the phone, its attachments and parts, all the manuals and the wooden cases in which the phone and everything else were shipped.

You can read the phone's story on the Forum here

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=7975.0

The phone was purchased by the JKL Museum in California in an eBay auction for $21,433.67 in January of 2013

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=8649.0

and was saved from the Butte Fire California had in September 2015. This museum post was dated a couple of months before the fire:

http://www.jklmuseum.com/western-electric-1964-model-i-picturephone/


It was a great, one in anyone's lifetime find and by being crowned the "Grand Champion," MagicMo gets lifetime bragging rights to this achievement and a brand new, virtual "Grand Champion" Trophy.

Well done, Maureen!

Congratulations Magic Mo!  I remember when this came out!  I was in 4th grade.  I thought it was weird!  Amazing that your Dad was able to get it, because the ones that came out for subscribers were different.  Not many people wanted it, as they thought it was just too expensive and that it was weird.  That makes it all the more desirable today.

Mike

Congrats Magic Mo ;) ..