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Lamp Phone Atrocities!

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

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RotarDad

#555
Just found this on Ebay - new lamp conversions are still being promoted by at least one seller.........

http://www.ebay.com/itm/291660138279

The seller's description includes the following:

"Vintage Bell System 60's Western Electric payphone...for a table top....bar top...or make a lamp out of it..."
Paul

andre_janew

The last thing the lamp phone people need is encouragement!

19and41

A person can make a lamp from a Frito and an alligator clip and a match.  Why do they have to drag a telephone into it?
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
— Arthur C. Clarke

TelePlay

Quote from: 19and41 on January 20, 2016, 04:54:42 PM
A person can make a lamp from a Frito and an alligator clip and a match.  Why do they have to drag a telephone into it?

. . . and a few other things as well. On a recent visit to an antique mall, I spotted these 3 gems . . .


NorthernElectric

I especially like the jar-o-buttons lamp.  I guess they picked all the good buttons out of it before they lamped it because it's only half full.   ;D
Cliff

TelePlay

A first for this topic - another something different and the on/off switch is in the transmitter's mouthpiece. But, it seems to need a bit of work.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-VINTAGE-1906-WESTERN-ELECTRIC-HAND-CRANK-TELEPHONE-LAMP-COPPER-BRASS-/231822741166

Nick in Manitou


Greg G.

Hmm, well, it's just parts, and I'm going to be nice and say it was probably a scout project of some sort.  It'll be interesting to see if it sells.

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rdelius

Not a project somebody built but there was a company that built these along with transparent sets.Built with ITT parts.The missing lamp globe might have said "Bar"

19and41

#564
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
— Arthur C. Clarke

rdelius

But that is a lamp that somewhat resembles a telephone.Nothing Western Electric here.Bad case of key word spamming

Jim Stettler

Quote from: 19and41 on January 25, 2016, 03:18:36 PM
Found one!  I'm on my phone, so a link

http://m.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Candlestick-Telephone-Lamp-Light-Working-Western-Electric-Bell-Phone-/291663981010?nav=SEARCH

I have owned some of these lamps in the past 2 black and 1 white).They had been part of a collection of real phones and I had 2 of them in an antique mall and 1 @ home. The lamp got so hot that I checked the others and decided it was a design flaw. I ended up cutting off the power cords and threw all 3 lamps away.  I feel they are a fire/burn hazard. They get very, very hot.

Jim S.
You live, You learn,
You die, you forget it all.

19and41

Sorry about that.  Those postage stamp size pics cross me up. 
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
— Arthur C. Clarke

TelePlay

Another lobotomy. Was a nice phone . . . , might be a good price for parts, maybe.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-RED-TELEPHONE-LAMP-/121875843889

HarrySmith

The little flower over the dial card is a nice touch!
Harry Smith
ATCA 4434
TCI

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there is only
do or do not"