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Telephone Talk => Collector's Corner => Topic started by: Dan on March 24, 2009, 08:25:14 PM

Title: Mystery Phone-please identify
Post by: Dan on March 24, 2009, 08:25:14 PM
What could it be? I GREAT DETAILED AUCTION, I must say

http://tinyurl.com/c92hom
Title: Re: Mystery Phone-please identify
Post by: HobieSport on March 24, 2009, 08:37:33 PM
It could be one of the extremely rare Invisi-phones.  So rare that you can't even see it.  Just imagine the value of an invisible phone after that 302 sold last week for $2,800 and it was merely clear plastic.  What a find.  I'm assuming the seller will ad a picture soon, so the first pic below is a screen shot of the original ad, to get the joke. ;)

Ya know...some phones really should be invisible.  This one for example. 
I don't even want to know what that "artist" was smoking...
You might want to get a barf bag before you look at it: ::) :P

http://tinyurl.com/cw9ucn

Title: Re: Mystery Phone-please identify
Post by: Dan on March 24, 2009, 08:56:33 PM
It's a modularized version of the rare 1949 WE500, personally autographed by Henry Dreyfuss!(underneath all that crap, that is)
Title: Re: Mystery Phone-please identify
Post by: Dan/Panther on March 24, 2009, 09:08:57 PM
Man if only it wasn't modular.
D/P
Title: Re: Mystery Phone-please identify
Post by: Dan on March 24, 2009, 09:15:53 PM
Wow, he added a picture and description-it's a pink princess!
Title: Re: Mystery Phone-please identify
Post by: AET on March 24, 2009, 09:16:32 PM
Quote from: Dan on March 24, 2009, 08:56:33 PM
It's a modularized version of the rare 1949 WE500, personally autographed by Henry Dreyfuss!(underneath all that crap, that is)
Trying to give Hobie a heart attack are ya?
Title: Re: Mystery Phone-please identify
Post by: HobieSport on March 24, 2009, 09:20:26 PM
Quote from: Dan
It's a modularized version of the rare 1949 WE500, personally autographed by Henry Dreyfuss! (underneath all that crap, that is)

Oh tell me it ain't so. ;D

Dan/Panther; you know some methods for removing paint.  What do you think this one would require?  A quarter stick of dynamite for starters? ;)
Or something a bit more potent?:
Title: Re: Mystery Phone-please identify
Post by: HobieSport on March 24, 2009, 09:26:26 PM
Quote from: Dan
Wow, he added a picture and description-it's a pink princess!

Okay!  Let's say we all pitch in and buy it for Bill, put a little tu-tu on it and send it with a complementary bottle of Pepto Bismol. ;)
Title: Re: Mystery Phone-please identify
Post by: McHeath on March 25, 2009, 12:57:38 AM
I'm thinkin' D/P could get this 500 back in shape, he's the paint remover man.

And yeah, suppose that under all that crap is a 1949 chassis, oh the inhumanity!

Title: Re: Mystery Phone-please identify
Post by: Sargeguy on March 25, 2009, 08:18:18 PM
Looks like  a Crosley repro.