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17th Feb 2015, 7:14 pm | #1 |
Nonode
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Milton Keynes, Bucks. UK.
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'Toy' Telephones (Intercom Set)
I know this will not please the true "Telephone" collector but I've been buying a few different style/models of this genre. The majority of them made in (the former) Yugoslavia.
Most of them suffer from battery leakage, probably common for the period, whilst other suffer from poor connecting twin wire & some have poor internal switches or tarnised contacts. The majority have problems with non working carbon (?) mouth pieces (senders ?). Is this a common fault?
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17th Feb 2015, 8:47 pm | #2 |
Heptode
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Hakadal, Norway
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Re: 'Toy' Telephones (Intercom Set)
The toys telephones are often the most lo-cost versions of intercoms. Transmitters may be often be replaced with transmitters from typical German or Italian telephones, and here is it just the size who matters. When I grew up leaking batteries was the rule.
Toy telephones are also a part of the history. dsk |
17th Feb 2015, 9:09 pm | #3 |
Dekatron
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Oxford, UK.
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Re: 'Toy' Telephones (Intercom Set)
I saw a lovely brown Bakelite set based on the 200-series pyramid phones in my local antiques centre for not very much recently. I was tempted, but I've got enough real phones to keep me happy.
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