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Originally Posted by Nickthedentist
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Originally Posted by Pellseinydd
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I suppose I could experiment...
I'm still intrigued how a 1950s wall-mounted instrument from NZ ended up over here, being sold by a house clearance outlet on eBay.
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Did it come from Cornwall? I brought quite a few back getting on for twenty years ago. I had a friend (into telephones' since we were at school together in the 1950's!) in Cornwall who sadly passed away about four years ago and his wife had a clearout to a Steve..... who had lots of his Strowger bits and pieces for sale on eBay. It may have come from him?
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Yes, Steve in Redruth!
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That's the guy!
Looks like one from one of the batches that I bought and shipped back to set the party line up and have a few spares. Attached is photo of one of the batches. In those days there were 4NZ$ to the £ compared with the 2NZ$ to the £ now. Average price of a good ivory Tele 332 in good 'nick' was less than £100 inc postage back to UK. Plus an exBT guy appeared in NZ selling and pushed the asking prices right up on
'Trade Me' - the NZ equivalent of eBay. Problem with Trade Me is that you have to live in NZ or Australia to register and bid. Useful that I administer CNet in NZ so am in contact with folk there!