better than a Birthday phone!

[teka-bb]

I've got something better than a birthday phone! A phone with my name on it! OK, it's just a toy phone but I think it's fun.

[Doug Rose]

I've got something better than a birthday phone! A phone with my name on it! OK, it's just a toy phone but I think it's fun.

How cool is that! I do remember the name Remco as a toy manufacturer when I was a kid. Very cool.....Doug

[dsk]

  I have to wonder what your parents was thinking when they gave you the name.

You were their little toy.....for....

Really much better than a birthday phone.

dsk

[Sargeguy]

Are you going to start referring to yourself as "Dialmaster" now?

[paul-f]

Probably not -- But WE will !!   

Nice find, Dialmaster!

[HarrySmith]

WOW
That is too cool
I agree, nice find, Dialmaster

[bingster]

Good job, Dialmaster!

Really, what an interesting coincidence.  That was a great find.

[GG]

There were a bunch of similar working intercom telephone toys based on various countries' postwar telephone types.  This being one, but there are others for Italian, German, and French phones.  Of those, the approximately Italian type seems to be the most common. 

The Bell System must have loved this.

"Mom, I'm old enough to have a real one now, don't you think?"  (Yes, and in bright red too, at an extra charge for a color other than black, heh heh!)

[Owain]

There were a bunch of similar working intercom telephone toys based on various countries' postwar telephone types. 

I had a toy telephone, not an intercom, but it was a red dial Trimphone. The dial twisted and returned (elastic band mechanism).

http://www.britishtelephones.com/gpo/pictures/t722pred.jpg from British Telephones

This was quite exciting for me as we didn't have a phone in the house at the time and had to use a rather smelly phone box like this:



Strangely this red toy predated the actual red "Snowdon Collection" issue of a red Trimphone by some 10 years.

http://www.britishtelephones.com/gpo/pictures/t722pred.jpg from British Telephones

I acquired a Snowdon Collection red Trimphone from a charity shop a few years back. There's a link to a Trimphone ringer warble at RobGrant's site.

[Owain]

I had a toy telephone, not an intercom, but it was a red dial Trimphone. The dial twisted and returned (elastic band mechanism).

I've noted here

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=1041.msg133881#msg133881

that it was actually a moneybox and I've found one on ebay!

[Dan/Panther]

I had the very same Red set when I was little, A coincidence is the store we bought it at was GEMCO.... BTW, the phones didn't work real well.
D/P

[WEBellSystemChristian]

I had the very same Red set when I was little, A coincidence is the store we bought it at was GEMCO.... BTW, the phones didn't work real well.
D/P

One time, I saw a toy Candlestick like these at an antique store, and just to see how well it worked, I spun the dial. Instead of returning slowly and quietly, It came back fast and had a sound that I can only describe as a grinding honk! Every person in that store turned to look at me...