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Telephone Talk => Collector's Corner => Topic started by: rdelius on July 15, 2017, 05:10:22 PM

Title: Found at Cary NC hamfest
Post by: rdelius on July 15, 2017, 05:10:22 PM
paid $5.00 each on the 500u from 10-57 and the North, 1955 capsules in the handset but network dated 1961  .$10.00 on the GEC NZ 100set. Note dial.missing lens though.Passed on a NE telephone set with text keyboard and crt and a WE? credit card set
Title: Re: Found at Cary NC hamfest
Post by: TelePlay on July 15, 2017, 05:44:14 PM
That 500 U for $5 is definitely a Find of the Month candidate. What a find!
Title: Re: Found at Cary NC hamfest
Post by: twocvbloke on July 15, 2017, 07:46:33 PM
I was looking at the first one (the 746-looking thing) and something seemed odd, aside from the colour, and it just hit me, the dial's reversed...  ???
Title: Re: Found at Cary NC hamfest
Post by: rdelius on July 15, 2017, 08:48:58 PM
NZ used the reversed dial .Also notice the cradle has  a clear plastic attachment that allows the telephone to be used as a wall set also.dated 1976 but the green is badly yellowed
Title: Re: Found at Cary NC hamfest
Post by: LarryInMichigan on July 15, 2017, 11:08:39 PM
The North wall phone is also a good FOTM.  I sold an ivory one for $300+.

Those NZ phones are understandably quite rare in this part of the world, but I don't think that they are especially valuable.  I would have paid $10 for one though.  A soaking in chlorine bleach and water in the warm sunlight should bring back the original color.

Larry
Title: Re: Found at Cary NC hamfest
Post by: andy1702 on July 16, 2017, 03:00:01 AM
That NZ phone will probably have the front two feet missing. That's the holes used to hang it on a bracket to fix it to the wall. You'll need to take the case off, slacken the dial clamping ring and rotate it 180 degrees. That would make it a wall phone, similar to the 1/706 occasionally seen in the UK.