Find of the Month - January 2015

[Doug Rose]

Harry....are you leaving the AE35 as it is or stripping it? It sure is a beauty.

As for the WE 500 set, can you list a January find in February? Curious minds want to know    ....Doug

[HarrySmith]

Doug, I have not decided yet. Every time I show pictures to non-phone people it is the first one they point out, "What a neat color" or something like that. I was going to start a thread here about it when I start clean up.

I am not sure if it is OK to post in the next month. There already is one entered for this month that was from last month.

[TelePlay]

Has there ever been a back to back winner?

In a word, YES, but not since 2011:

2011 - 07   John S  **  collection of 3 WECo sets
2011 - 06   JimH  **  202/D1 c/w E1 handset, #4 dial and 684 subset
2011 - 05   JimH  **  1958 White 500
2011 - 04   pbghmike77  **  28 B's & D's

[TelePlay]

As for the WE 500 set, can you list a January find in February? Curious minds want to know    ....Doug

Doug, and Harry.

Terry has stated somewhere in this topic that a  member can nominate another members phone or phone item (or their own phone or phone item) "found" in January in February if the owning member had a different phone nominated in January (to get around the two phones in one month rule); the phone was "found" in January but not received in the mail until February or the phone was received in the last one or two days of the month with not enough time to post it in January.

January and February are used as examples, this would apply to any consecutive months. We saw this with two member's items in December and January (Larry's phones and Greg's pins). There is that leeway but as far as I can remember, those are the only exceptions. Terry may want to chime in on this and correct me if I misspoke, if he can tear himself away from that cold Pina Colada stuck to his hand long enough to log in and type something coherent . . . 

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EDIT:  Found it, or at least one occurrence of it - "If you have already entered for the month and come up with something even better either submit your new find indicating that it replaces your previous entry OR you can enter your new Find in next months contest."

[Doug Rose]

Sorry guys....only kidding on February posts, a good phone is a good phone no matter when it was purchased.

Harry....if it was mine I would strip it as bakelite is so easy to strip.....but you are correct, it is a neat color. A pleasant dilemma indeed!!...Doug

[AE_Collector]

Terry may want to chime in on this and correct me if I misspoke, if he can tear himself away from that cold Pina Colada stuck to his hand long enough to log in and .....

Nope....sorry....no time, Gotta Go.....

Terry