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Heather said:I'm having difficulty dating my phone. It has an F-1 handset w/a straight plastic cords. I believe the body is metal and it weighs a ton!! I'm figuring it to be somewhere between 1938 to 1940-something. Is there a way to pinpoint a specific year?
Open it up and look inside -- there'll be two screws on the bottom holding the baseplate in place. Just unscrew, and liftup the plate -- you'll find a date stamp -- "11/38" or some such. Note that Western Electric frequently used parts from different dates to rebuild phones, so you might find multiple stamps, but the earliest date would likely be the date the phone was first manufactured.