Author Topic: Lamp Phone Atrocities! (Read 177241 times)

AE_Collector · « **Reply #690 on:** December 23, 2017, 10:57:20 PM »

I don’t mind some of the nicely done lamps made from phones but now they’ve gone too far...

Pourme · « **Reply #691 on:** December 23, 2017, 11:30:42 PM »

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Oh my!

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AL_as_needed · « **Reply #692 on:** December 24, 2017, 09:05:27 AM »

Is that the pose the "boss" makes when she sees you brought home another payphone?

HarrySmith · « **Reply #693 on:** January 02, 2018, 05:11:39 PM »

This guy not only destroys phones as he did with this nice color Pink AE 90 wall phone. Check his other items!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/122892936071

19and41 · « **Reply #694 on:** January 02, 2018, 07:43:21 PM »

I hope these artistes have a limited number of these tragedies to make before their creative juices go dry.

AE_Collector · « **Reply #695 on:** January 02, 2018, 08:35:53 PM »

Quote from: HarrySmith on January 02, 2018, 05:11:39 PM

This guy not only destroys phones as he did with this nice color Pink AE 90 wall phone. Check his other items!

Do I have to? I’d really rather not...if that’s okay with everyone......

Terry

kleenax · « **Reply #696 on:** February 08, 2018, 12:59:51 PM »

Here's a CRAZY lamp/phone that I found in Lancaster, PA antique shop in 2005! I didn't want it, so Jon Katz bought it - $85 for a WE#10 lamp! And yes, those are both original AE 1A/31B colored sets that I restored for Katz after finding them in the bowels of an ancient Pullman car, in the middle of a field in rural OHIO! And, although I found them in a bonafide EARLY, all-wood Pullman car, there was NO rails in site! Just sitting in the middle of a field behind a farmhouse.....but that's another story! ;-)

FABphones · « **Reply #697 on:** February 20, 2018, 07:49:26 AM »

There's a bloke in the UK who does these ugly conversions too. This one for sale on fleabay at the time of writing.
It is really is sad to see what he has done to it.

A genuine GPO Candlestick. Prior to converting, UK value roughly £400 - £450. Now stripped out, no doubt drilled, and turned into an awful £75 lamp.

You can even just about make out the GPO stamp at the top of the stem. I hope beyond hope that it is merely a good replica, although even the listing says 'GPO'...

I wonder, has nobody ever kindly advised him to check what he has in his hands before he destroys them?

stub · « **Reply #698 on:** March 02, 2018, 08:19:21 PM »

It's happened again !!!!!!!!!!!!

stub

Pourme · « **Reply #699 on:** March 02, 2018, 08:22:02 PM »

That's about the sadist I have seen in a very long time!....It's worth a rescue!

twocvbloke · « **Reply #700 on:** March 02, 2018, 08:34:20 PM »

Although a very common phone, this 746 doesn't deserve to be butchered like this:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/142670506462

19and41 · « **Reply #701 on:** March 02, 2018, 08:48:33 PM »

that one looks like it would great fun to take a driver and do some driving on that bulb! Lit! Snap crackle and pop!

Babybearjs · « **Reply #702 on:** March 02, 2018, 10:38:12 PM »

Eek gads! They even do that over in Europe? Ouch! I would have at least used a 1 Meter pipe on that socket to be able to put a shade on it.... sad....so sad....

oldguy · « **Reply #703 on:** March 02, 2018, 11:38:10 PM »

Stub, that is disgusting. I really like those AE50s.

AE_Collector · « **Reply #704 on:** March 03, 2018, 02:53:25 AM »

Note the number card on the red 50....Junior Achievment. They made lots of lamps from old phones with the Telcos help. Is that one on eBay currently? Would be interesting to see what it goes for.

Terry

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