WANTED:  Telephones

Wall Set F-52937                            Dial In Handset F-52578                                   Capri Speakerphone                    

Trimline marked F-56093                    WE302 metal set

    
Early Touch Tone Sets with various button styles and layouts.


Princess or other sets with buttons in a rectangular reserve.


Selective Dialer  F56466 

Teleconcepts, Inc. Phones

Interesting and unusual "modern art" sets in lucite or wood.
For example:

Western Electric 300 Series Rotary Phones

332 or 334 Receiver volume control (hookswitch knob has 3 positions)
412 Secretarial keyset
461 or 465 keyset with exclusion key

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Western Electric 500 Series Rotary Phones
(Also the similar 1500 and 2500 TouchTone sets)

Model numbers are usually clearly marked on the bottom plate in ink.

See the 500 Series page for more examples.

 

   

500-series                                   1500-series                           2500-series

Any 500 model in the following pre-1958 colors:
 -52 Gray (Dark Gray, Oxford Gray)
-54 Brown (Mahogany Brown)

511X (with voice coupler)
512 (secretarial)
513B (Data-Phone keyset with lamp)
516B ("make-busy" turnkey and indicator lamp)
522 (elevator phone)
529 (No network, 12 conductor cord)
533 (Party line w/ receiver amplification)
535 (receiver amplification and push to listen button)
556 (party line wall set)
557 (wall set for long loop)
559 (party line wall set for long loop)
593 (wall, no ringer, no Bell System markings)
596 (COPAN military set)

565L keyset with turnswitch in rightmost position (exclusion key)


Any WE 1500-series phone (10-button touchtone pad), particularly Call Directors, Card Dialers and variations
(marked other than 1500D).
WE 1554 (wall set) in ivory (not beige or faded white).

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WE 712BC Princess, secretarial
WE Princess phones with message waiting lights

WE 1702B Princess (10-button tone dial) in black or ivory

WE Trimline cords with message waiting light (H5AD)

ITT Trendline with message waiting lamp on the back of the handset

WE trimline handset with amplifier (2226A handset, volume control above the dial)


WE175x panel phone (with 10-button dial)
WE x75x panel phone with keyset




Any WE Autovon set, Call Director, Card Dialer
(16-button keypad)

    

Any Dataset -- rotary or TouchTone

Unusual PBX consoles

63D Faceplate for this Comkey 416 set with HFAI (Model 983A) - any color:



Mini-Princess in pink, with handle marked
BELL SYSTEM EXHIBIT
SEATTLE WORLD'S FAIR
(about 4" long)

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Dials: WE #1, #2

Handsets: WE E5, F6, G12, G36, G66

Documentation:  WE BSPs (Old and New Numbering)
especially numbers C46.102 - C54.115, and
Division C60
Division G80

Divisions 500 - 520 (Station Sets, Consoles, Key Systems, Apparatus)

See the BSP page for more examples.

 
Color catalogs or brochures covering the Design Line series or telephones in colors.

Magnavox telephones

such as the B-1 or B-2
with distinctive handset such as this: