Browsing around my local Junque Shoppe this AM, spotted an unknown (to me) SC phone. The phone was in bad shape, but the dial looked to be OK, and though missing the fingerwheel, operated smoothly with a lovely clickety-clickety sound. Since I need a dial of this (apparent) vintage, I considered buying it, but would like to ID the dial before I shell out the dough. Wish I had had a camera, but I didn't.
Sitting on the shelf, the phone looked kind of chunky, kind of like a 500 desk set. But when I picked it up to look at it, it was clearly intended to be wall mounted. Picture a 500 screwed to a wall. When wall mounted, the ears that hold the handset were at the top, and pointed upward (a 500 set, if glued to wall, would have the ears pointing forward, toward the user). Each ear had a metal hang-up button. In the area between the ears was a small metal plate that said something like "Stromberg Carlson / Press to Talk or Dial". This plate was hinged, and obviously is a switch of some kind, but I have no idea what it does. The junque shoppe will not allow me to disassemble the junque to see what is inside.
The handset was the rather blah design similar to an F-1. In other words, a flat cover over the transmitter, not a bulldog/spit cup design. No markings anywhere on the handset that I could see.
I examined the entire outside of the case, including the base, and could find no other markings.
Does this suggest anything to anyone? Or is there a source of S-C pix I could scan through? Myers 2nd Ed. doesn't picture anything similar. Any help is much appreciated.
Bill
