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Telephone Talk => Auction Talk => Topic started by: Doug Rose on September 29, 2014, 06:30:49 PM

Title: Western Electric line of Vintage "Blue Pearl" Phones only available on eBay!
Post by: Doug Rose on September 29, 2014, 06:30:49 PM
 This seller gets a lot of mint painted phones from an old collector at his estate sales    8).  Never heard of the Blue Pearl finish, but my buddy had a GTO this color when I was in high school when Lincoln was President  ::)  ..nice ringer box as well.....Doug

http://tinyurl.com/o3jpg3w
Title: Re: Vintage 1930's Blue Pearl Western Electric 202 F1 Rotary Phone w/ Ringer Box
Post by: WEBellSystemChristian on September 29, 2014, 06:35:59 PM
Quote from: Doug Rose on September 29, 2014, 06:30:49 PM
my buddy had a GTO this color when I was in high school when Lincoln was President  ::)
That's the oldest GTO I've ever heard of! Was it horse-drawn, or perhaps steam-powered?!? ;D
Title: Re: Vintage 1930's Blue Pearl Western Electric 202 F1 Rotary Phone w/ Ringer Box
Post by: Doug Rose on September 29, 2014, 06:47:01 PM
yes!
Title: Re: Vintage 1930's Blue Pearl Western Electric 202 F1 Rotary Phone w/ Ringer Box
Post by: unbeldi on September 29, 2014, 10:13:47 PM
Got to have the blue perl !

work horse phrase (quality indicator): from a retired man from the phone company

didn't know there was enough room for an induction coil in the E1 ringer box, or the D1 base.
Title: Re: Vintage 1930's Blue Pearl Western Electric 202 F1 Rotary Phone w/ Ringer Box
Post by: Doug Rose on October 16, 2014, 06:13:41 PM
Another Blue Pearl!!! What are the odds...Same seller.....same estate sale...same can of paint ... 8)....Doug

http://tinyurl.com/l4gp63f
Title: Re: Vintage 1930's Blue Pearl Western Electric 202 F1 Rotary Phone w/ Ringer Box
Post by: unbeldi on October 16, 2014, 06:26:27 PM
That's your last chance to have the blue perl!

The blue perl 302 is already gone, too.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/161446267962
Title: Re: Vintage 1930's Blue Pearl Western Electric 202 F1 Rotary Phone w/ Ringer Box
Post by: tallguy58 on October 16, 2014, 06:59:49 PM
Nice masking job on the dial.

Yeeeesh!
Title: Re: Vintage 1930's Blue Pearl Western Electric 202 F1 Rotary Phone w/ Ringer Box
Post by: WEBellSystemChristian on October 16, 2014, 07:13:33 PM
Quote from: Doug Rosequote author=Doug Rose link=topic=12737.msg135147#msg135147 date=1413497621]
Same seller.....same estate sale...same can of paint...

http://tinyurl.com/l4gp63f
...and same humiliating color!
Title: Vintage 1940's Blue Pearl Western Electric 302 Rotary Phone
Post by: Sargeguy on October 30, 2014, 05:39:43 PM
Vintage 1940's Blue Pearl Western Electric 302 Rotary Phone (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1940s-Blue-Pearl-Western-Electric-302-Rotary-Phone-/161464835607?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item25980dde17)

Blue Pearl?  Looks black to me.
Title: Re: Vintage 1940's Blue Pearl Western Electric 302 Rotary Phone
Post by: JimH on October 30, 2014, 06:04:13 PM
This looks to have some kind of dark blue metallic "cast" to it....

Jim
Title: Re: Vintage 1940's Blue Pearl Western Electric 302 Rotary Phone
Post by: twocvbloke on October 30, 2014, 06:06:49 PM
Maybe it's one of them indigo-black models, or someone resprayed the phone with a blue pearlescent paint, so the black is still there, but it has that blue sheen to it, that or someone's basing the description on poor lighting... :)
Title: Re: Vintage 1940's Blue Pearl Western Electric 302 Rotary Phone
Post by: poplar1 on October 30, 2014, 06:14:41 PM
Same seller:
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=12737.msg135147#msg135147
Title: Re: Vintage 1940's Blue Pearl Western Electric 302 Rotary Phone
Post by: Doug Rose on October 30, 2014, 07:23:05 PM
Same can of paint!
Title: Re: Vintage 1940's Blue Pearl Western Electric 302 Rotary Phone
Post by: Sargeguy on October 30, 2014, 09:59:25 PM
Okay, now I see the blue!!!
Title: Re: Vintage 1940's Blue Pearl Western Electric 302 Rotary Phone
Post by: twocvbloke on October 30, 2014, 10:14:19 PM
I guess that explains it, everything they own has to be painted with that blue paint.....  ???
Title: Re: Vintage 1940's Blue Pearl Western Electric 302 Rotary Phone
Post by: WEBellSystemChristian on October 30, 2014, 10:38:28 PM
Speaking of indigo 302s, would an Indigo 302 be considered a color version? I don't know if I should put mine in my color 302 display or keep it with my black ones...


BTW, that paint does not look good on a 302, or any phone for that matter...;D
Title: Re: Vintage 1940's Blue Pearl Western Electric 302 Rotary Phone
Post by: Kenton K on October 30, 2014, 11:23:43 PM
Ha, thats funny. The only way i recognized the indigo color was through the translucent hookswich cover plastic.  I got one by accident earlier this year. Its in sad shape, lots of small stress cracks and a cracked in an ear. Is it worth restoring?

KK
Title: Re: Vintage 1940's Blue Pearl Western Electric 302 Rotary Phone
Post by: Greg G. on October 31, 2014, 12:19:21 AM
Quote from: twocvbloke on October 30, 2014, 06:06:49 PM
... someone's basing the description on poor lighting... :)

That's all I see, bad pics of a nothing-real-special black 302. 
Title: Re: Vintage 1940's Blue Pearl Western Electric 302 Rotary Phone
Post by: Fabius on October 31, 2014, 07:42:48 PM
I think my wife has nail polish in that color.
Title: Re: Vintage 1930's Blue Pearl Western Electric 202 F1 Rotary Phone w/ Ringer Box
Post by: AE_Collector on October 31, 2014, 09:30:53 PM
Quote from: unbeldi on September 29, 2014, 10:13:47 PM
work horse phrase (quality indicator): from a retired man from the phone company.

"Part they left out" - he was a janitor at the local CO.

PS: I just merged all of the special "Blue Pearl" phones into this one topic so we can set up a "take a number" system for collectors to obtain their very own example from the seller.

Terry