ebaY Seller - "Qaz-trader"

[Tonyrotary]

This seller has a lot of phones for sale on ebay. Most are 500's and 554's with a couple of trimlines thrown in. Some are modular, some are not. All look in good shape, though some of them have new plastics so that could be why.

[Dan]

I bought a Northern Electric NOS 554 turquoise shell, handset, dial ring, and cord (a kit) . I modified a WE 554 to fit it. This kit was BEAUTIFUL and I bet he now is putting new plastics on old phones. I would recommend him if you want a goodlooking phone, but not necessarily numbers matching.

[AET]

Heck, numbers matching isn't always guaranteed with a factory telephone anyways.  I'd say only half of mine are full numbers-matching

[foots]

Tom's right about that. My D1 was refurbed in 1951 and has different dates on several parts. To me this is ok since this is how it came from Bell and is in very good condition. I want to look this guy up to see if I can get a yellow 554.

[AET]

I like having both examples.  It's nice to have ones that are you know, factory exact as they were new, but it's also nice to have ones that you can tell were lovingly used and that people wanted to keep using, so they had them repaired over the years.  Not that Ma Bell was just going to dole out a new phone or anything all willy-nilly however!

[Bill Cahill]

I just received my phone today. See my post. I suspect it's left over new old stock. No wear, little dirt. Not a scratch on this sucker.
Bill Cahill

[AET]

Congrats!  Can't complain on a find like that!

I just received my phone today. See my post. I suspect it's left over new old stock. No wear, little dirt. Not a scratch on this sucker.
Bill Cahill

[Jester]

I received an Aqua Blue NE 554 color change kit this afternoon from qaz-trader.  Below are pics of the plastics assembled to a refurbished 554 base set (naked telephone) I recently acquired.  A few modifications I made are;
1)  I completely waxed & polished the plastic parts.
2)  The std. length handset cord was changed out for a 13.5' cord-- wall phones are more useful with these.
3)  I swapped handset caps with some extras I had.  I discovered that NE continued to use the six hole receiver cap long after WE went to the seven hole cap-- so this will help my '61 Aqua 500 appear older.  I also needed an undamaged transmitter cap for the same 500, so I elected to make it a matched set.

[McHeath]

Love the aqua blue. 

[AET]

Not only do I like the phone/color.  I love the wallpaper!

[Jester]

Thank you, A/E Tom.  I'd really like a turquoise 554 to put there, but I haven't found one yet.  I only hung the aqua up there long enough to take its picture.  I've been assembling things to sell on ebay this summer, & this aqua will be one that goes.  Who knows, maybe I'll get enough to buy a nice turquoise!!

[Dan]

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Here's gaz's turquoise kit I mentioned earlier

[Jester]

Thanks for reposting, Dan.  I remembered seeing that on here somewhere, but I couldn't remember where I saw it or who it belonged to.  I've been watching his listings for awhile & it appears he no longer has this color in NE! Ah, well.

[gpo706]

I can't find a seller with this name on ebay (?)

[Jester]

gpo 706,

It's misspelled.  Try searching for qaz-trader.