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CRPF Award for "Worst Picture of an eBay auction item"

Started by AE_Collector, December 06, 2010, 01:33:06 AM

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FABphones

Shoebox for sale?  ;D
Radiator not included.
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FABphones

Not sure whether this one qualifies as a worst picture or item not as described.

I present to you, a Classic Style Art Deco Telephone.........

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19and41

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
— Arthur C. Clarke

LarryInMichigan

Quote from: 19and41 on March 11, 2019, 01:47:20 PM
Did Art design that one personally?

That phone was actually designed by Art's great-grandson, Arthur Deco III :).


Larry

tubaman


HarrySmith

#200
Here's a great picture. Not sure what it is a picture of. The strange part is this is his main picture but he has a few decent pictures in the listing. Listed as "Very old wind up phone".

https://www.ebay.com/itm/303101622041 ( dead link 02-16-21 )
Harry Smith
ATCA 4434
TCI

"There is no try,
there is only
do or do not"

19and41

Looks like they are winding it up over their head.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
— Arthur C. Clarke

andre_janew

I hope they're talking about a magneto telephone.  If not, it must be a type of toy telephone I've never seen!

Key2871

That's a great picture of the crank in fast forward.
That really catches the detail very very well.... Not so much
KEN

FABphones

Ebay 746 telephone listing photo.
As the saying goes 'hair today, gone tomorrow'.
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Key2871

Hey, that's one of those new hairbrush phone's!! I've heard that you can brush your hair at the same time your talking to your boss to call in sick. I think it's more geared to those lady's out there, or the hippy throw back types with long hair.
I've seen them for a better price though...
KEN

FABphones

Vintage British Telecom Bell.
Bootiful.  ;D  :o
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KEN

FABphones

This phone for sale listing is a bit loopy lupin.  ;D
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jsowers

Quote from: FABphones on June 04, 2019, 03:37:28 PM
This phone for sale listing is a bit loopy lupin.  ;D
I like your pun, but those are foxgloves, otherwise known as Digitalis. So don't have a coronary and go to hospital, OK? The plant is used to make the heart medicine. I do recall the Monty Python sketch on lupines. They must be everywhere in England, but not so much here in the US. Mom did have foxgloves in the garden and that's how I remembered what they were.
Jonathan