Is a phone show a flea market?

[Greg G.]

Whatever, but here's what I came away with at the Seattle phone show:

Going clockwise:

Book - History of Communication featuring the Walton Collection.  Very good quick reference.

AE 1A Monophone.

65 Pink 500

302 with 4H Dial

WE Dial w/operator's mount.

E1 handset.



I intend to try the White Magic treatment on the pink 500 to restore the color.  It's going to be a gift, I already have a good pink 500.

I need a skirt for AE 1A.

[Mr. Bones]

Looks like you had fun, and scored large at the Seattle Phone Show. Enjoy your new toys!

Best regards!

[AE_Collector]

I wonder why that stuff was long gone when I got there at 11AM? Gary Goff for the rubber base gasket for the 1A. About $10.

Thanks again Bill for putting on the show and to all the other helpers and contruibutors.

Terry

[WesternElectricBen]

Nice finds!

[Phonesrfun]

Hey, we had a very successful show!  I bought an early 500.  Early as in 9-1950 with the "smiley face" OPERATOR designation.  I will dig out my camera when I get unpacked. and take a picture and post pictures of the show.

The 500 is in need of a few things, so I will be looking for those items.  Specifically, the phone is missing the handset and hook switch plungers.  The handset cord was cut just shy of the handset so, it is missing the grommet where the cord enters the base of the handset and it is, of course, shortened.  Too bad, because these early 500's used a neoprene straight cord that has leads for inside the phone cut to fit the equalizer and not for the 425B network.  So, unless I can find an authentic straight neoprene handset cord for the early 500, I will be working on that to do something in the interim.

In any event, the show went well.

We had a few more people than last year.

More information to follow.

[Greg G.]

Hey, we had a very successful show!  I bought an early 500. 

In any event, the show went well.

We had a few more people than last year.

Must have been the coffee.  Last year the to-go bucket from Starbucks was hardly touched, this year we finished off two of them!  Good thing SB is only half a block away!

Do you have a tally of how much casual traffic we had?