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Telephone Talk => Auction Talk => Topic started by: HarrySmith on July 13, 2018, 01:43:04 PM

Title: Beige 302 - NOT PAINTED!
Post by: HarrySmith on July 13, 2018, 01:43:04 PM
At least that's what his title states but then in his description he states: "paint loss on the handset"

WHAT?!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/153098144619
Title: Re: Beige 302 - NOT PAINTED!
Post by: RB on July 13, 2018, 01:45:04 PM
Nah, thats not painted...
just ignore the black showin through...
Title: Re: Beige 302 - NOT PAINTED!
Post by: Key2871 on July 13, 2018, 03:24:24 PM
I can remember when all I ever saw was Black black or black. My grandfather used to say, you can get a model T in any color you want, as long as its black.. the same went for phone's until the 60's, then I started seeing colored phone's, that weren't black.
Title: Re: Beige 302 - NOT PAINTED!
Post by: Haf on July 13, 2018, 04:00:13 PM
Quote from: Key2871 on July 13, 2018, 03:24:24 PM
My grandfather used to say, you can get a model T in any color you want, as long as its black..

....your grandfather was Henry Ford?? ;)

"Henry Ford (1863-1947) documented that he made the "any color so long as it is black" comment during a meeting in 1909 (Henry Ford in collaboration with Samuel Crowther in My Life and Work. 1922. Page 72)"

Haf
Title: Re: Beige 302 - NOT PAINTED!
Post by: Key2871 on July 13, 2018, 04:26:29 PM
No, but it did begin with H. I just remembered him saying that, when I was putting a extension phone in the living room for him, and it was beige.
Title: Re: Beige 302 - NOT PAINTED!
Post by: HarrySmith on July 13, 2018, 05:51:45 PM
Good Ol' Henry had a few sayings that stuck around! I think that was his most popular.
Title: Re: Beige 302 - NOT PAINTED!
Post by: Key2871 on July 13, 2018, 06:17:05 PM
Yea, after much thought, I remember him saying that's what Henry said at some point.