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Telephone Talk => Auction Talk => Topic started by: paul-f on October 18, 2012, 02:40:03 PM

Title: If you're looking for a WE Autovon phone, keep looking!
Post by: paul-f on October 18, 2012, 02:40:03 PM
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190741171157 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190741171157)
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Check the photos against the info here:
  http://www.paul-f.com/weAutovon.html (http://www.paul-f.com/weAutovon.html)
Title: Re: If you're looking for a WE Autovon phone, keep looking!
Post by: Dave F on October 18, 2012, 04:45:06 PM
Repeating Paul's apt warning:

If you're looking for a WE Autovon phone, keep looking!

For sure!
Title: Re: If you're looking for a WE Autovon phone, keep looking!
Post by: AE_Collector on October 18, 2012, 07:43:10 PM
What do you think is under the stickers on the buttons? Redial, flash, pause etc....

Terry
Title: Re: If you're looking for a WE Autovon phone, keep looking!
Post by: paul-f on October 18, 2012, 08:13:08 PM
The dial looks a lot like several later (post WE3500-series) non-Bell dials that have turned up on the surplus market over the last few years.

One I owned briefly was originally sold by C. F. Electronics.


I'd guess someone may have put it in WE-like plastics to make it look more like a 3504.