New eBay description for rotary telephones

[mienaichizu]

One bid item describes this phone as "Gothic Art Deco"

http://tinyurl.com/Gothic-Art-Deco-Phone

[bwanna]

gothic art deco     o well i still like the phone.....but what make is it?  i might have to bid, even tho i hate ebay.

[LarryInMichigan]

It's definitely not north American.  It looks European or possibly Australian.

[gpo706]

This fits the bill from dsk's wife's favourite:

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v480/dsk/Telephone/EB_automat%20-67/?action=view&current=EB1932.jpg

Same body as a GPO 300 series deskset, with different ribbed handset.

CB blanking dial but no idea what the base is it's sitiing on.

[McHeath]

Odd that qaz-trader would use such a description.  Whoever this is had all those nice mint condition external plastics for 500s and 554s early this year.  (Still kicking myself for not buying the aqua blue 554 kit, I think he wanted 15 bucks for it)

[bellsystemproperty]

It looks like my Australian PMG phone from the phone show. I'm pretty sure my dial isn't original, but it works fine, and the phone was only two bucks.

[McHeath]

Great phone, and only 2 bucks, what's not to like?

[bellsystemproperty]

It's a very cool phone. Next year at the phone show perhaps they'll have some more PMG phones. PMG made a phone very similar to the 500 but unique in its own way.

[contraste]

It's a very cool phone. Next year at the phone show perhaps they'll have some more PMG phones. PMG made a phone very similar to the 500 but unique in its own way.

I lived in Australia in the 70's and 80's and remember that PMG was the acronym for Postmaster General which was the Australian government's post office and telephone agency. It was later split up and the telecommunications division was privatised and is now known as Telstra.

PMG did not make phones but were supplied by established telephone manufacturers.

[dsk]

I believe it is a British or Australian (Did I say something wrong?) Erikson Magneto like this
The handset/cord may be replaced with a newer.

dsk

[bellsystemproperty]

Oh I didn't know that. I thought PMG made their own phones. Thanks 

[contraste]

Oh I didn't know that. I thought PMG made their own phones. Thanks 

Here's a link to a site with some info on Aussie phones.

http://www.bobsoldphones.net/Pages/AustPostOffice/Aust%20Post%20History.htm