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Don't be an idiot, James. He knew they were hear 'cause he could hear their bells ringing in his head!!
What finds! I'm a phone collector, myself, and there's some drool-worthy stuff there!
Don't be an idiot, James. He knew they were hear 'cause he could hear their bells ringing in his head!!
Thanks Tom. Just to drive you crazy, here's a couple of screen grabs I took from the sale website.
That represents about half of the phones. There were also clocks galore. Like I said, I'm not a phone collector but this could well turn me into one! Exciting sale. The sale was put on by a local small firm run by a very nice woman who always prices things very reasonably. Ah...the thrill of the hunt. (At least I can stop searching for a 302 phone!)
Thanks Tom. Just to drive you crazy, here's a couple of screen grabs I took from the sale website.
That represents about half of the phones. There were also clocks galore. Like I said, I'm not a phone collector but this could well turn me into one! Exciting sale. The sale was put on by a local small firm run by a very nice woman who always prices things very reasonably. Ah...the thrill of the hunt. (At least I can stop searching for a 302 phone!)
Oh...almost forgot...and I ran into another FL member at the sale. He beat me (just barely) to a nicer AE34 with an earlier handset (pity that). Didn't quite get his moniker, but he seemed like a nice fellow. It's the first time I've run into a FL mate.
That's it! I'm getting in the car and heading there lol
Nice floor lamp thee too.
I wanted to buy the floor lamp too, but then decided to funnel my cash towards the phones. It was in good working shape as well, except the shade was nowhere to be seen.
Don't feel too bad about missing the clocks AtomicEraTom, they weren't as good as they appeared online. A lot of knock-offs made to look old, but obviously cheaply built, probably most were from the 1980s.
Picked up this vintage Dinky Bedford Refuse Truck and Panhard Tanker at the antiques show where I was selling today.
I paid $20 for the tanker and $25 for the dustbin truck.
But what made the thing more interesting was not the bad condition (the cover is loose) but the things I found between the pages. I found more maps which are from early 1900's before the First World War (total amount 21 different maps, they're from another Swedish atlas), some prints and pictures, an ad (from 1971, it has pictures and names of flora on the other side), a German article of the Holy Night, a postcard from Germany stamped 1956, a map of Helsinki City (1955) and a map of Austria (1958) and pictures of graduate students (?) from 1880.