Japanese Rotary Phone

[mienaichizu]

Another phone I newly acquired. Japanese made from the 60's. The phone is is till in good working condition and it is ringing

What do you think guys

[bingster]

That's the first Japanese phone I've ever seen.  The base looks very European.

[mienaichizu]

That's the first Japanese phone I've ever seen.  The base looks very European.

I'm not sure of its make but I've seen a Hitachi Rotary Phone, it is almost identical to this one

[Mark Stevens]

Is it just me, or does is it shaped a little like a Kellogg 1000 "Red Bar"?  (particularly the view from the front)   

[McHeath]

Yeh, it does sorta resemble the Red Bar, and also sorta has an Automatic Electric feel about some of it as well.  Nice sleek phone.

[mienaichizu]

I've seen the inside of it but there's no indication of its model or make

I'll post some interior shots so you can better justify

[mienaichizu]

its been a while since i've posted this topic and here's the innards of the phone

[Dan]

So it has a chirpper or  buzzer and no bells?  I wouldn't know where to start with that one. It maybe built in 1963 or it is a model 63

[Dan/Panther]

its been a while since i've posted this topic and here's the innards of the phone

It appears a Red Bar rip off, is the ringer mechanism missing ?
D/P

[McHeath]

Curious about that circuit board.  It looks awfully modern for 1963, were such boards being made then?  I just pulled the back off my 1964 RCA clock radio on my desk to compare, and it's circuit board is far more primitive looking, with big honking resistors and big gloppy solder traces and everything is big. 

[bingster]

I think the ringer/buzzer/whatever is in the flat ivory box on the left, with the yellow wires going to it.   Down at the lower left of that box is what looks like a volume slider. 

[McHeath]

That picture of the bottom of the phone, the label and numbers, could this phone have been made in July of 1982?  Hence the 82-7 mark.

[Bill Cahill]

The caps on the one board look like better caps of early 60's. Could this phone have been updated?
Bill Cahill

[mienaichizu]

that's the only mark I see inside the phone the B-63 so probably it is from the 60's but the wiring mechanism looks fairly modern as said by McHeath

there are no bell ringers instead, the ringer is composed by 2 aluminum nuggets near the ivory box (left side), one is short for low tone and another is long for high tone ring in which a small hammer or ram hit it to make it sound. It sounds very different from the brass bell ringers.

[mienaichizu]

That picture of the bottom of the phone, the label and numbers, could this phone have been made in July of 1982?  Hence the 82-7 mark.

maybe this phone was refurbish by the July of 1982 since the mark 82-7 looks like stamped later