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Lamp Phone Atrocities!

Started by Greg G., May 06, 2009, 12:43:09 AM

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AE_Collector

How hard woukd it be to find a brown base/lamp cord for this? Instead they find this "almost matching" bright blue cord!

Terry

TelePlay

Quote from: AE_Collector on October 01, 2018, 12:16:22 AM
How hard woukd it be to find a brown base/lamp cord for this? Instead they find this "almost matching" bright blue cord!

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Not hard at all and only $1.40 a foot plus shipping. Whomever made that lamp phone, went out of their way to get that cord.

And many colors are available from Sundial, a major manufacturer of repro lamp power cords. This is the link to their twisted pair offerings.

     http://www.sundialwire.com/twistedpair.aspx

However, no cloth cords anywhere near to the cloth cords custom spun by OldPhoneWorks in Canada.

Here is the link to their main site showing all of the cords they make for lamp restoration enthusiasts.

     http://www.sundialwire.com/clothcoveredwire.aspx#category

FABphones

Even 1980's/90's transparent phones can't escape.
No discrete LED illumination here, just a mismatched large black bayonet fitting and a whopping great big bulb  ;D
Not sure what the silver disk underneath is, probably to stop the whole thing falling over.
A collector of  'Monochrome Phones with Sepia Tones'   ...and a Duck!
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Jim Stettler

Quote from: FABphones on February 05, 2019, 04:43:50 PM

Not sure what the silver disk underneath is, probably to stop the whole thing falling over.
It looks like they took a gooseneck desk lamp modified it into a phone lamp. I think I would of left  the phone base off.
Jim
You live, You learn,
You die, you forget it all.

Key2871

Exactly, what's the point of the base mounted to a ... Base?
It's bad enough that had to butcher a poor defenseless phone, but do it with a little more taste than that ridicules, hideous contrpation. Some people try so hard to be an artist, too bad that they just don't think before they destroy something useful. At least give it a good funeral if it doesn't work. Walk to the nearest trash can and drop it in.
KEN

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Quote from: FABphones on February 05, 2019, 04:43:50 PM
Even 1980's/90's transparent phones can't escape.

That, by far, is the absolutely ugliest lamp phone I've ever seen. Simply a waste of everything.

Russ Kirk

Here is one I found for $265, what a shame!
- Russ Kirk
ATCA & TCI

FABphones

Quote from: Russ Kirk on February 06, 2019, 05:02:38 PM
Here is one I found for $265, what a shame!

Took me a few seconds but I've just worked out what it is was.  :(
It looks like it was all thrown up in the air and stuck together how it landed.

It must be that time of year. Here is another. Someone tell me this is a repro and has no value.
Yours for $149.
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rdelius

Not a repro and could most likely fixed back

FABphones

A matching pair of ugly lamps.
French PTT24 telephones. You can hardly tell they were once phones.
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Vintage Phones - 10% man made, 90% Tribble
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19and41

Another creation from the "A funny thing happened on the way to the trash can" skool O' art.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
— Arthur C. Clarke

Jim Stettler

Here is a modern LED  302 lamp. It would match better on an Ivory 302.
$40.00 with free shipping
https://www.etsy.com/listing/494869060
You live, You learn,
You die, you forget it all.

Key2871

And here I thought the trimline phone was stupid, well this one takes the cake. Why the heck didn't they just sell it with no LED puck.. they would have had a better chance at selling it than that.... Thing
Geese, I just am amazed that people are so hard up that they have to put a battery operated light on the phone..
KEN

FABphones

A dual category contender. Hideous Telephones and Lamp Phone Atrocities.
A collector of  'Monochrome Phones with Sepia Tones'   ...and a Duck!
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Vintage Phones - 10% man made, 90% Tribble
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dsk

The first one I have seen in Norway.


Hang your coat on the hook-switch and the lamp lights up.


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dsk