WECO 302 TELE PAGE

[Fabius]

Came across this in an area antique shop. The base is dated 10 48 A. Notice the base has a silvered color finish on it. Handset is a F1 and I forgot to check the dates on it. Anyone seen this one before? Price was $30 but I passed.

[AL_as_needed]

Someone make that into an intercom? Some of those connections look a bit iffy and that one button/knob is pretty new looking.

[AE_Collector]

There were many small companies that modified conventional telephones into intercoms and paging systems. Some were more "professionally done" than others!

Terry

[Fabius]

Thanks. Glad I passed on it.

[unbeldi]

Came across this in an area antique shop. The base is dated 10 48 A. Notice the base has a silvered color finish on it. Handset is a F1 and I forgot to check the dates on it. Anyone seen this one before? Price was $30 but I passed.

The silver color is not a finish.  The base plates of some phones made between early 1947 and sometime in 1949 were made from aluminum. Only the bottom was painted, not the inside surface.

[LarryInMichigan]

That is interesting but probably worth very little to phone collectors and nearly nothing to anyone else.

Larry

[Jim Stettler]

I would call it an oddity,   It is cheap enough that I would of bought  it at a 10 % discount and enjoyed it.
JMO,
Jim S.

[AL_as_needed]

Either way, it is still part of the larger phone history narrative, even if its been hacked and glued by some fly by night entity. These sorts of items I find to be interesting as it shows just how simple and rugged these phones are that they can be slapped together and still function just fine.

[andre_janew]

You would need at least two of them in order to have your own intercom system!

[Babybearjs]

it looks like it was done by a hobbyest. the bracket that holds the capacitor looks like it was broken off... good thing you passed... its not worth the money.

[mariepr]

Some years ago there were a number of D-1s on ebay that were also converted into intercom sets.  Over the dial space there was a single button, presumably to buzz the next station.  Inside was a fairly neat arrangement consisting of a buzzer and....a doorbdell button...mounted on a wide mouth screw jar cap to fill the dial space.  It appears that some small local companies bought obsolete telephones and converted them for resale to small business offices.