( This followed from a topic started in 2012 about a rotary phone on "Bones" S06E03 at this link: http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=312.msg84400#msg84400The phone gift is shown at 43:40 into the episode has been attached below. )Seen this on the TV show Bones went like this
Fromm Bones “The Maggots in the Meathead
Hannah: I was thinking I wanted to get him something when I moved in; a present, and since you know him so well —
Brennan: A telephone! Get him a telephone!
Hannah: I was thinking something a little more personal.
Brennan: A vintage rotary phone. Booth loves them and hasn’t been able to find the right one.
Hannah: Really?
Brennan: Yes! He’s been looking. Booth says that’s what a phone is supposed to be: indestructible and heavy enough to knock someone out.
Hannah: [laughs] Yeah, that sounds like Seeley.
Brennan: His grandfather kept his rotary phone until it fell apart. Booth loved the feel of the bakelite, the tick-tick-tick of the dial as it turned. He says the mechanics make it human.