Post Your Last Purchase XXVII

[macnerd93]

Who needs an iPhone 6?

Just bought a 1920's GPO 150 Candlestick telephone for my collection. This has been a phone I've longed for and finally found one cheap enough £70 to get. I can't wait to expose the brass receiver, cradle and neck. When they were made they covered the stunning looking brass in black ebonite rubber

 

[kazmac]

After checking iTunes daily for weeks, finally.

 

[Destroysall]

HTC One M8. Can't wait!

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Who needs an iPhone 6?

Just bought a 1920's GPO 150 Candlestick telephone for my collection. This has been a phone I've longed for and finally found one cheap enough £70 to get. I can't wait to expose the brass receiver, cradle and neck. When they were made they covered the stunning looking brass in black ebonite rubber

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My grandmother was a village postmistress, and also ran the local telephone exchange - she and my aunt, who succeeded her, ran it for well over 70 years until just a few years ago when my aunt retired (a little reluctantly and still totally lucid) well into her 80s; they weren't linked to the State automatic system for ages, and would have been quite familiar with phones such as the lovely one you have posted.

Enjoy it; it looks wonderful. Would you be able to get it working? (And who cares that it would not be suitable for text messages…….or downloading apps….)

 

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[macnerd93]

My grandmother was a village postmistress, and also ran the local telephone exchange - she and my aunt, who succeeded her, ran it for well over 70 years until just a few years ago when my aunt retired (a little reluctantly and still totally lucid) well into her 80s; they weren't linked to the State automatic system for ages, and would have been quite familiar with phones such as the lovely one you have posted.

Enjoy it; it looks wonderful. Would you be able to get it working? (And who cares that it would not be suitable for text messages…….or downloading apps….)

Fascinating story, love old phones It would work fine and even dial out on the modern telephone exchanges we have today. As long as it has the matching bell set with the proper induction coil "the bit what actually makes it into a phone". Now my next challenge is to get a Bell Set Number 1, which are about £170 online. I guess expensive but when complete the setup is worth about £400-£500 depending on the condition, so I guess it really is worth getting.

Two of my oldest phones in my collection are a 1935 232 King Pyramid phone, works beautifully and a 1944 332 telephone. The rings sound epic and i've even gotten use to dialling more than touching buttons. I restore phones myself, one of my hobbies. My favourite restoration was doing my 1935 232. It came in a very bad way from a big house in a nearby village, but I did only pay £40 for it which is very cheap for a 232. It had paint splatter on it, a cracked cradle, no matching bell set and a non stuck dial. It took hours of cleaning, soaking in disinfectants, polishing and over a year to find the correct Bellset in the right condition for the right price, but glad I waited

The before photo I took really doesn't do it justice to how bad it actually looked in person.

Before and After

 

[AngerDanger]

I just bought a pair of glasses similar to those worn by Will Graham on NBC's "Hannibal"; it's going to be a fun Halloween…

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Fascinating story, love old phones It would work fine and even dial out on the modern telephone exchanges we have today. As long as it has the matching bell set with the proper induction coil "the bit what actually makes it into a phone". Now my next challenge is to get a Bell Set Number 1, which are about £170 online. I guess expensive but when complete the setup is worth about £400-£500 depending on the condition, so I guess it really is worth getting.

Two of my oldest phones in my collection are a 1935 232 King Pyramid phone, works beautifully and a 1944 332 telephone. The rings sound epic and i've even gotten use to dialling more than touching buttons. I restore phones myself, one of my hobbies. My favourite restoration was doing my 1935 232. It came in a very bad way from a big house in a nearby village, but I did only pay £40 for it which is very cheap for a 232. It had paint splatter on it, a cracked cradle, no matching bell set and a non stuck dial. It took hours of cleaning, soaking in disinfectants, polishing and over a year to find the correct Bellset in the right condition for the right price, but glad I waited

The before photo I took really doesn't do it justice to how bad it actually looked in person.

Before and After
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Thanks for posting this. Lovely restoration job, and you should be proud of yourself.

That branch of my family were (and are - I still have cousins, and cousins once and twice removed who work in the field of telecommunications) very interested in the whole area of telecommunications. The grandmother who ran the post office (and telephone exchange) was married to a man - my grandfather who was a linesman with the State Department of Posts & Telegraphs; we have papers and letters from before WW1 which show him in places - towns - where he was installing telephone lines. My father was the youngest in that house, and, predictably, he, too found his way into the telecommunications world, and ultimately worked as an engineering superintendent with the Posts & Telegraphs Dept.

As a child, and teenager, I remember him doing exactly what you ahem just done. Neighbours and friends would turn up with exquisite - sometimes battered and broken - antique phones, which they had bought, found in attics, inherited, or just tripped over and liked, (and which I drooled over; they were gorgeous) and my father would find a way of repairing them, ensuring that they could work and could be used in the automatic state system.

Precisely because he was a telephone engineer himself, our house always had the most modern phone equipment, cool cream phones when everyone else had bleak, black ones, sometimes stuff that was years ahead of what was used (or widely available) elsewhere; I suspect that we may have been testing some of the handsets. Anyway, being the historically minded type I am, I loved the old phones, and would love to have one or two of them myself for such purposes…….

Good luck with using them, and long may you enjoy doing so. Keep me posted. It brings back fascinating memories…..

I just bought a pair of glasses similar to those worn by Will Graham on NBC's "Hannibal"; it's going to be a fun Halloween…

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If I am not mistaken, these are made by the Oliver People's company; my own glasses frames come from this lot, but are not this precise model. However, they are lovely glasses to wear, comfortable and stylish.

 

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Guess what just came in the mail! I'm going to wait until Monday to start drinking it. Planning on replacing just breakfast and lunch for now (as I usually little to no breakfast).

 

[GunZi]

Bought my self a Razer Tiamat, with 7.1 surround sound

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[Illuminated]

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Which dispensary?!

 

[snebes]

I picked up a 30" Cinema Display (and a Mac Pro I'm gonna flip) on Craigslist a few weeks ago. Been enjoying it ever since. So much easier on my neck over 2x24" screens.

Not my pic...

 

[S.B.G]

Guess what just came in the mail! I'm going to wait until Monday to start drinking it. Planning on replacing just breakfast and lunch for now (as I usually little to no breakfast).

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Excellent! I've been waiting for my order since May. Received an email a few weeks ago that it should be shipping soon.

 

[sk1wbw]

I just bought a pair of glasses similar to those worn by Will Graham on NBC's "Hannibal"; it's going to be a fun Halloween…

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Nice. Where did you get them from?

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Nice. Where did you get them from?

The frames have been made by the 'Oliver Peoples' company; (I wear them, and mine are a somewhat older design, - the classic 'Riley-R'). High end opticians may stock them, or ought be able to order them for you. Mind you, they are not cheap.

 

[sk1wbw]

The frames have been made by the 'Oliver Peoples' company; (I wear them, and mine are a somewhat older design, - the classic 'Riley-R'). High end opticians may stock them, or ought be able to order them for you. Mind you, they are not cheap.

Thanks, I'm wanting a new pair of specs and those are sharp.

 

[12vElectronics]

16gb iPhone 6+ Silver/White

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[Fried_Gold]

Picked up my Moto 360 from O2 today.

 

[jjk454ss]

Merrell Nepal Down Jacket

 

[Prof.]

After reading SchneiderMan's review on his website, GadgetMac, I decided to buy a Spigen iPhone 6 Plus tough case.

 

[AngerDanger]

If I am not mistaken, these are made by the Oliver People's company; my own glasses frames come from this lot, but are not this precise model. However, they are lovely glasses to wear, comfortable and stylish.

They appear to be Kotelniki Auglasses, but I don't know how indicative that name is of their creators. Had they not been worn by the character I'm portraying, I'd still find them rather appealing. Fashion is one of the things for which I feel that I lack an innate sense, so this is new.

Nice. Where did you get them from?

I ordered them from EyeBuyDirect.

 

[Burglad]

grabbed a couple things off ebay.. carbon fibre key holder and a 16 gig usb swiss army. this should improve my life by 5%

 

[ipodlover77]

Wait, you actually listen to your dentist?? What's that like? LoL.

I'm a dentist. People rarely actually listen to what we tell them, at least around here .


...Good job on the Sonicare though. Life would be rough without my Diamond Clean.

Holy cow, 190? Is it worth it? If its actually a noticeable difference, I might have to invest in a really good toothbrush as well.

 

[thelonelylimo]

I've been meaning to post this, just now getting around to it.

Forza Horizon 2 for Xbox One with the VIP membership.


I honestly just wanted the Tesla.

 

[Big Stevie]

Im maybe a little late to the party, but having still got my original ZX81, SNES, PS1, PS2 & PS3 then I guess I had to jump in at some point