Your first 2021 telephone purchase?

[FABphones]

What is your first 2021 telephone purchase?
(not 'hauls' or purchases to sell on - a first 2021 purchase which is for your own collection).

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My first purchase is this nice Northern Electric Uniphone, a good find for my collection for two reasons. Firstly, it has this great dial card, and secondly it has taken quite a while for one of these to come up for sale in the UK, the last one I saw for sale was about two years ago.

[Doug Rose]

Nice idea CJ....I picked up my first Select O Phone....Doug

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=24749.msg245163#msg245163

[Hill Haven Telephone Company]

When we bought out Telephones unlimited these were in the first box.   The first box of many new finds. 

AE 34 with Brass Dial and Brass Rings on the reciever
New old stock AE40
And Blue & Pink AE 80s.  The pink was new old stock. 

These are our favorites of 2021.   

[Butch Harlow]

My first 2021 purchase definitely expanded my "lumber pile" in a big way. This Stromberg-Carlson 2 boxer was just begging me to come home.

[countryman]

Haha, "lumber pile"  noble lumber indeed.
My first and only purchase so far was an "activocal vocally" voice controlled dialer. I had looked at these with the idea in mind to use it for making calls with CB manual phones. Wouldn't it be cool to just spell out the number and get connected, just like by a human operator?
The results were disappointing so far. After teaching in the numbers 1...0 several times (with different phones and good transmitters) the speech recognition is still a hit-and-miss game. I have not tried teaching in names and complete phone numbers, perhaps that works better. I might also try and teach in English numerals. I'm not at the point of giving up yet 
The "vocally" unit is around 250,- € (300 $ US) new and is supposed to help the blind or visually impaired. In fact, most blind people successfully used regular phones all the time. So my guess is, most buyers hope that elderly and infirm relatives have a benefit from it. On my unit, the voice of an elderly lady was recorded before I wiped out the memory. Honestly, with the poor voice recognition this group of people will be nothing but frustrated.
Frustration also might have made the seller to accept a price of just over 20 €. I'll see what I get if I also can't make it work. 2 € maybe?

[tubaman]

Mine is this Ericsson N1900.
A little unusual as it has a dial type 21 but with a silver chevroned backing (the reason I bought it  ).

Nice Uniphone @FABphones - as you say these rarely appear in the UK.

[SUnset2]

Though I usually don't collect modern novelty phones, I couldn't resist this Teleconcepts phone for $20 + $20 shipping.  Based on the pictures on Paul-F's pages, it is an "Apollo".  It's interesting how they look like they are handcrafted from acrylic.

[shadow67]

My first of the year is this nickel Western Electric 20B. What drew me to this one was no dates on the base of the phone.

[.....]

My first Phone purchase for 2021 is this 1966 all dates matching NE 233HS 5 1/4.
The fellow I bought it from had it for the last 25 years. He took it all apart planing on chroming it. That was when he first bought it. He never got around to getting it chromed. It sat in the box since then. He couldn't remember how to put in back together, plus he had lost most of the screws. Lucky for me I had some extras.

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1966 all dates matching NE 233HS 5 1/4

[persido]

This is mine, yes it was me that bought the yellow 302.

[FABphones]

...yes it was me that bought the yellow 302.

Oh no - you turned it into a lamp!

[Doug Rose]

This is mine, yes it was me that bought the yellow 302.

congrats Scott! It is a one of a kind.....Doug

[Pourme]

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That is a striking phone! Looks good in that room, too....congrats!

[allnumbedup]

My first purchase was an online live auction purchase of two lots of phones. 167 on-line viewers for these lots and only one other bidder. Two lots of phones: I got the reds for $55 and the greens for $45 ($154 total when you include $17 buyers premium and $37 in house shipping in the same box with another non-phone lot). One picture was posted for each lot as shown but I asked for photos of the bottoms.  My hope was that they were all soft plastic: The feet looked to be leather and the finger wheels were open, cords pretty fat.  They were all used together with the same phone number. Well I got the bottom picture a few hours before the auction but didn't see it: it went to my spam folder.  Looks like the phone on the right side in each color was a refurb and ABS on mid- fifty's bases.