Comment on What is the thing that resembles a camera shoe under the handset holder found on telephones with a handset used for?

• RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, cannot be wall-mounted like the one in your picture but those phones did get wall-mounted in slightly different shape. 1000038469

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  • hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Interesting. I’ve never seen a phone like that. Usually the wall mounted versions of the Model 500 had a vertical mount for the handset in the front of the base. This one looks like a different company that Western Electric though. You’ve got me curious enough I feel like I’m about to go down a rabbit hole.

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    • Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not just a U.K. company, the GPO were the General Post Office and ran the entire phone network and more: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Post_Office

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    • RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh, I was not aware you are into this as a collector, now I feel honored to be able to show you something new!

      I live in Europe, not the UK though, so maybe that explains why these are familiar to me. Although another user said they saw one in Ohio.

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    • Indie59@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We had a yellow one like that hanging on our kitchen wall in Ohio, so they were definitely around.

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• hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  And the even older design that didn’t even have a bell integrated in the base. The bell was in a separate bell box.

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  • hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    Or one of these real old designs that didn’t even have a bell. It has a buzzer that’s barely audible. Also, the microphone and the earpiece aren’t in a convenient handset.

    This one is a replica made in probably the 1970s or 1980s. It’s funny, when it was made it was a replica of something vintage, but now it actually is vintage.

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    • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Huge props for the unexpected old phone exhibition. It was very interesting, thank you :3

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    • Vacationlandgirl@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You have a very interesting phone collection and I appreciate you sharing! Unlocked memories I didn’t even know I had! 😃

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Dude those are really cool phones. I had forgotten how much I miss rotaries.

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