can someone ID this candlestick

[bushman]

I have found this candlestick and was wondering if someone could identify it from these pics. Also a rough idea of what it is worth so I can be better educated when I make an offer on it.

Thanks

Bushman

[bushman]

sorry about the double pic here is the other one

Bushman

[Doug Rose]

Bushman...the pictures are a very poor quality to make a judgement. My guess is the back of the spitcup has NOV 1910 on it and it is a reproduction....Doug

[rdelius]

I agree that it is a reproduction Western Electric set.
Robby

[bingster]

Any time you see an AE dial on a phone that looks like a WE candlestick, it's cause for suspicion.  I agree that the phone is repro, and the receiver definitely is (or was).  I have one, but I wouldn't even know how to guess the value of one.  Probably not all that much, though.  But, if it's cheap (I mean like $25 or $30 cheap), get it and paint it black.  It'll look very close to an original, and would make a nice looking phone.

[AE_Collector]

Buy it, polish it up and resell it. List it as a 1970's brass candlestick so you aren;t trying to pull one over on somebody. One sold a couple of weekes ago on ebaY and we discussed it here on the forum. The seller got something like $335 for it because it looked like a million dollars and the buyer was probably someone who just wanted a real nice looking working candlestick.

Terry

[Greg G.]

Is this the same thing?

http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/atq/2115233872.html ( dead link 03-07-21 )

[Sargeguy]

I think that's just a Frankenphone.  The Korean replicas are all dial phones as far as I know.  The mouthpiece and reciever look plastic though.  My guess is a 20AL with "Country Junction" parts.  If you are thinking of buying a candlestick, add them and the parts to your watch list on eBay and see what sells and what doesn't.  That is a good way to learn the difference between real and fake.

[LarryInMichigan]

As I remember, one of the quickest ways to spot a fake WE candlestick is by looking at the name plate on the transmitter.  The WE ones are riveted, and the fakes are stuck with adhesive.  This one does look like a fake to me.  The receiver is obviously not the type which would have some with a 1910s-20s candlestick.

Larry

[Dennis Markham]

That coiled cord just doesn't look right on a candle stick phone, does it?

[LarryInMichigan]

That coiled cord just doesn't look right on a candle stick phone, does it?

The purpose of a coiled cord is defeated by putting it onto a candlestick.  I would not expect many people to hold the receiver 20 feet from the phone.  Anything but a straight cloth cord looks wrong to me.


Larry

[Doug Rose]

Here is the link of the repro that some unsuspecting buyer paid through the nose for....Doug


http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=3841.msg50742#msg50742

[Greg G.]

That coiled cord just doesn't look right on a candle stick phone, does it?

The purpose of a coiled cord is defeated by putting it onto a candlestick.  I would not expect many people to hold the receiver 20 feet from the phone.  Anything but a straight cloth cord looks wrong to me.


Larry

Yeah, now that you mention it, that's really dumb.

[bushman]

If you think of it that way, that's hilarious!!

Bushman

[Dennis Markham]

The user would be building muscles while talking on the phone....like one of those spring things that one pulls apart.