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DentonRotary's Collection

Started by DentonRotary, February 22, 2014, 12:57:23 AM

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DentonRotary

a) Red Trimline marked AT&T

DentonRotary

b) Beige Trimline marked Western Electric

Matilo Telephones

Groeten,

Arwin

Check out my telephone website: http://www.matilo.eu/?lang=en

And I am on facebook too: www.facebook.com/matilosvintagetelephones

Contempra

Very nice sets Denton .. It seem you like the trimline line..:D... slim, small and they don't take a lot of place in a room ....congrats....However, I envie you for the red one.

Matilo Telephones

Me too. A red Trimline is on my wish list.
Groeten,

Arwin

Check out my telephone website: http://www.matilo.eu/?lang=en

And I am on facebook too: www.facebook.com/matilosvintagetelephones

jsowers

You have a great start to a collection there. They may multiply ten-fold before you know it, like coat hangers. Be on the lookout for a red modular handset cord for the red Trimline. That's how it originally came.

I remember the first LED-lit rotary Trimlines I ever saw. They were installed new in my landlady's house in 1980 when I lived in Chapel Hill. I got to pick them out because she wasn't there when the phone man arrived. I didn't go for any wild colors and picked out an ivory wall model for the kitchen and an ivory desk model for the bedroom, and I asked the installer to make it so she could silence the bell in the bedroom because the ivory AE80 it replaced had no bell. The ivory AE SpaceMaker in the kitchen, which was original to the house and fit perfectly with the mid-century modern architecture of it, had a chrome dial and an external AE ringer that would wake the dead. Southern Bell bought out the phone company in Chapel Hill and was replacing all the AE equipment with WE.

There are many colors of Trimlines and wall models and TT models too. The older ones have "large modular" cords on them and use a lamp inside the handset that requires a 6V transformer. See the picture I posted in 2009 at the bottom of the page in this link for a sample of what colors Trimlines were made in. You have a lot to choose from.

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=954.msg24317#msg24317
Jonathan

Mr. Bones

Great start on your collection, Denton! You may think it is meager, only having two phones, but you have two phones that I don't, so to me, it is very cool! 8)

     Don't worry; as others have pointed out, they will multiply! ;)

Best regards!
Sláinte!
   Mr. Bones
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