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Telephone Talk => Auction Talk => Topic started by: finlover on October 25, 2009, 11:06:37 PM

Title: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: finlover on October 25, 2009, 11:06:37 PM
I thought you all might enjoy following this auction.  It's the red phone from my collection that was recently ousted by an earlier example with gray cords that I won on ebay.  My friend Jorge had first dibs but he passed on it.  I think, like me, he likes doing the restoration work himself (and lovely work he does too!).  So let's see how this one ends up:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190344674727&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT
( dead link 08-04-21 )
Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: JorgeAmely on October 25, 2009, 11:51:48 PM
Finlover:

It looks very pretty.   :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: finlover on October 26, 2009, 12:00:33 AM
No llores, amigo mio, place your bid! ;D
Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: McHeath on October 26, 2009, 12:23:21 AM
Clearly this phone is just cluttering up your place, so I will offer to take it off your hands to free up room.  Just send it to me, and D/P will reimburse you for shipping.   ;) ;)

It's a sweet sweet phone, I've never seen anything like this in person, never seen a soft plastic 500 in color.  Hopefully when I go to the phone show in San Jose next month I can see some soft plastic in color.
Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: Dan/Panther on October 26, 2009, 01:38:02 AM
This is where D/P says B/S. :o
D/P
Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: mienaichizu on October 26, 2009, 09:53:14 AM
WOW :o :o :o
Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: Dan/Panther on October 26, 2009, 01:29:50 PM
Jorge;
Just curious, you have a better example of that phone for your pewrsonal collection, or don't collect that type ?
D/P
Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: JorgeAmely on October 26, 2009, 02:08:41 PM
D/P:

I have two red WE500s, just like the one from finlover, with manufacturing dates that correspond to my brother and sister birth dates. Then there is the red with the gray curly handset cord. And one more like Dennis' birthday phone, with a gray straight handset cord.

I have a phone I bought from finlover about three years ago. He does very good work and wouldn't mind having another one.

But five WE500 red phones in a household would be too many. Right?  ;D ;D ;D 

Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: Dan/Panther on October 26, 2009, 02:30:19 PM
Quote from: finlover on October 25, 2009, 11:06:37 PM
I thought you all might enjoy following this auction.  It's the red phone from my collection that was recently ousted by an earlier example with gray cords that I won on ebay.  My friend Jorge had first dibs but he passed on it.  I think, like me, he likes doing the restoration work himself (and lovely work he does too!).  So let's see how this one ends up:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190344674727&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

Finlover;
Do you have a better example for your collection ?
Do you have a time machine or something similar, are you in Kahoots with the dark side.
D/P
Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: JorgeAmely on October 26, 2009, 02:42:43 PM
D/P:

finlover should take a few pictures of his collection and post them here.

Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: finlover on October 26, 2009, 05:44:05 PM
Quote from: Dan/Panther on October 26, 2009, 02:30:19 PM

Finlover;
Do you have a better example for your collection ?
Do you have a time machine or something similar, are you in Kahoots with the dark side.
D/P

Yes!  I found an earlier red '55 with gray cords.  It's in the works right now and I'll post some pix when I'm done...I mean after I've taken it for a spin in my satanic time machine ;)
Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: finlover on October 26, 2009, 05:45:23 PM
Quote from: JorgeAmely on October 26, 2009, 02:42:43 PM
D/P:

finlover should take a few pictures of his collection and post them here.



I will do that, sir!
Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: Tonyrotary on October 27, 2009, 07:20:22 PM
Oh WOW! That phone is very nice. I bet you get a nice price for it.  :)
Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: finlover on October 27, 2009, 08:50:20 PM
Thanks, Tom!
I'm hoping for close to 3 bills, but we'll see...
When I first started doing this, a red '57 500 I had only brought $59, but it wasn't as nice as this one.
Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: JorgeAmely on October 27, 2009, 09:05:57 PM
Fin:

Maybe you will get lucky and get $700+ from the same Japanese buyer a couple years ago.
Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: Phonesrfun on October 27, 2009, 09:11:48 PM
So, what we are saying here is that you can now get about as much for a red '57 500 as you once could for a red '57 Chevy.  Times have changed, haven't they?

-Bill
Title: Auction ended
Post by: finlover on November 01, 2009, 10:29:19 PM
Well, it wound up at $355, which is just fine with me.  I forgot that because of daylight savings time the auction ended an hour earlier than I had intended.  I can't help but wonder if that affected the outcome...

Anyway, it sold to the same guy that bought my red wall phone through a second chance offer, after the first buyer returned it because it didn't match his mom's wallpaper!  Next week I'm listing a white '64 500 in pristine condition (surprise!).  Kind of boring, but I have to break up the monotony of red, aqua, turquoise and pink.
Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: bwanna on November 01, 2009, 10:31:50 PM
 :o :D WOW  :o :D :)
Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: AET on November 02, 2009, 08:51:32 PM
.......still waiting for that apprenticship to kick in :)...............
Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: JimH on November 02, 2009, 09:48:37 PM
Wow, great price.  I'd love to get that kind of change for some of mine.  Is there some sort of ceremony you do, or a "phone dance" before the item is listed? ;D
Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: finlover on November 03, 2009, 09:50:08 AM
Thanks, Jim!  Yes, before each auction I put on a headdress fashioned from handset cords and then do a roller disco routine to "Ring My Bell".   Works for me!
Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: Dan/Panther on November 03, 2009, 12:59:20 PM
I knew it !, I knew it !, there had to be some kind of VOO DOO involved someplace.
I'm there, the next auction I post, I'm going to do a naked rain dance in my backyard, with a soft plastic 500 case on my head like a hat, and play "Macho Man" in the background.
D/P
Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: bwanna on November 03, 2009, 08:38:33 PM
d/p... i hope that works out for you.........but no videos please :)
Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: Craig T on November 03, 2009, 10:00:26 PM
Quote from: Dan/Panther on November 03, 2009, 12:59:20 PM
I knew it !, I knew it !, there had to be some kind of VOO DOO involved someplace.
I'm there, the next auction I post, I'm going to do a naked rain dance in my backyard, with a soft plastic 500 case on my head like a hat, and play "Macho Man" in the background.
D/P

D/P You can use the proceeds to post bail.  :o  ;D  ;D

Nice finish finlover on a beautiful phone.

Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: AET on November 03, 2009, 11:26:21 PM
Dang, I was using BEechwood 4-5789.  Maybe that was the problem?
Quote from: finlover on November 03, 2009, 09:50:08 AM
Thanks, Jim!  Yes, before each auction I put on a headdress fashioned from handset cords and then do a roller disco routine to "Ring My Bell".   Works for me!
Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: Dan/Panther on November 04, 2009, 03:15:17 PM
Quote from: Craig T on November 03, 2009, 10:00:26 PM
Quote from: Dan/Panther on November 03, 2009, 12:59:20 PM
I knew it !, I knew it !, there had to be some kind of VOO DOO involved someplace.
I'm there, the next auction I post, I'm going to do a naked rain dance in my backyard, with a soft plastic 500 case on my head like a hat, and play "Macho Man" in the background.
D/P

D/P You can use the proceeds to post bail.  :o  ;D  ;D



Nice finish finlover on a beautiful phone.



Craig;
Are you kidding, I live next to an Indian Reservation, I'd probably have 20 or 30 indians joining me before it all ended. (We  need the rain )  :o :o :o
D/P

Bwanna;
Who want's a peek ???? :o :o :o

D/P
Title: Re: Fabulous '50s phone from finlover
Post by: Craig T on November 04, 2009, 04:08:31 PM
Quote from: Dan/Panther on November 04, 2009, 03:15:17 PM
Quote from: Craig T on November 03, 2009, 10:00:26 PM
Quote from: Dan/Panther on November 03, 2009, 12:59:20 PM
I knew it !, I knew it !, there had to be some kind of VOO DOO involved someplace.
I'm there, the next auction I post, I'm going to do a naked rain dance in my backyard, with a soft plastic 500 case on my head like a hat, and play "Macho Man" in the background.
D/P

:D

D/P You can use the proceeds to post bail.  :o  ;D  ;D



Nice finish finlover on a beautiful phone.



Craig;
Are you kidding, I live next to an Indian Reservation, I'd probably have 20 or 30 indians joining me before it all ended. (We  need the rain )  :o :o :o
D/P

Bwanna;
Who want's a peek ???? :o :o :o

D/P

Lol, I love it.