Stromberg Carlson Frankenphone

[wds]

Here's a phone that isn't worth it's weight in sheet metal, and yet it's currently selling for $79.  I don't sell very often, but the phones I do sell are correct, not modified, and never frankenphones.  It seems like authentic original untampered working phones never sell for what they are worth, then these frankenphone - piles of crap sell for many times their value.  Notice all the reproduction parts on this phone.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/351146267924

[rdelius]

From Phonco. They put the pinstriping on their sets and used the dials off of AE type 80E sets

[LarryInMichigan]

I don't understand it.  This phone is obviously a Frankenmess, and it doesn't even look nice, yet there have already been 20 bids!  What am I missing?

Larry

[poplar1]

I don't understand it.  This phone is obviously a Frankenmess, and it doesn't even look nice, yet there have already been 20 bids!  What am I missing?

Larry

20 bids but only 3 bidders, all with 39 feedbacks or less. Typical newbie bidders making several small increment bids until they are the high bidder.