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Leich Handset Flashlight
Someone cleverly took a
perfectly good Leich handset, such as the one in the background, and
decided it should be turned into a flashlight.
The receiver and receiver cap were replaced with a reflector,
lens and bulb. The transmitter was replaced with metal mesh with
a pushbutton. Low voltage DC was introduced through the coiled
line cord -- either from a power supply for fixed operation or a
battery for remote work.
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Wallpapered
Princess
Here's a perfectly good pink
Western Electric 701B -- early model Princess phone, with an overdose
of contact paper.
Someone spent a lot of time putting this on.
Bet it takes me less time to get it off!
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Western Electric Camera
Stand??
Yup, it's a 20-series candlestick base that was guillotined
and married
to a camera mount. It's marked and has the cord hole in
back. In case you're interested, the camera is a Kodak Bantam
Special -- itself a Deco classic.
Makes you wonder where the top went...
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...I should have known it
would turn up.
At a different flea market a few weeks later this "Western
Electric Desk Microphone"
turned up. Fate works in strange ways!
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Amateur
Paint Job
A Classic Western Electric D1 cradle
with F1 handset was updated to
50's splendor with this great paint job. They were thorough --
the
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Phone
Lamps
What's worse than turning one
classic phone into a lamp?
They really blasted everything -- a big hole through the
handset for the rod that holds the bulb, removed the switchhook,
removed the dial mechanism and hooked a switch up to the
fingerwheel.
At least they mounted the handsets in opposite directions, so
they can be used as a pair. And it is kind of cute to turn the
dial to switch the light on and off.
Click here for more phone lamps.
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Hacked
Number Plate
Here's aWestern Electric #2 dial
that was found with a damaged porcelain number plate.
It looks like some clever devil tried to cut a notch in it so
it would fit on a later #4 dial with "inside" fingerstop.
OUCH! Wish it had been
left alone!
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Notched For
Modular Jacks
How can we keep the notchers away from our
phones?
Here is the back of a potentially valuable RED WE302 that's been
hacked in back for a modular jack. At least in this case this was
probably
done after the corners were cracked.
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Here's another attempt at Modular Conversion.
Unfortunately they screwed the block on through the case and drilled
a hole for the wires. They could have mounted it with foam tape
and
run the wires through the existing notch or under the case edge.
So close!
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