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Interesting item - toy switchboard from the 50s

Started by Greg G., June 30, 2014, 01:50:21 PM

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Greg G.

This is interesting, I've never seen these before.  Toy phones, yes, but not toy switchboards.


http://www.ebay.com/itm/161349030267
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paul-f

Here are a few related photos saved a few years ago...

You can see the battery-operated Switchboard Operator in action.  Anyone have one?
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7K1lG-g-3k
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFURhdS2rp0

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Phonesrfun

I DID have one when I was a kid.  I once saw one just like the one I had on e-Bay.  That switchboard, plus the fact that my grandmother was a switchboard operator, probably pushed me over the edge into the realm of phones.
Here is a link to a photo I posted a couple years ago of my grandmother.  Unfortunately that is a real switchboard and I have no pictures of the toy board I once had.
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=4494.msg57589#msg57589
-Bill G

Russ Kirk

I had a black Zimphone switchboard like the first posting.  I bought it at an antique store for $40 and sold it at a phone show for $50.  While I do have some toys phones in my collection,  the Zimphone just didn't quite fit and took up a lot of shelf space.
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Phonesrfun

Mine was definitely a Zimphone, and black too.
-Bill G