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Posted 3 years ago
leef28
(5 items)
Phone reads on back....
Signal Corp U.S. ARMY
Telephone TP-6-A
Order No. 6511-PHILA-5?
The North Electric MGF.Co.
Can anyone help identify the year, cost, value, and history on this phone?
please call Jim at 724-261-7529
he is interested in selling
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North Electric was based in Gallion, OH. This phone (1940s/50s model) even in good shape is not worth much at all... unless you happen to have a colored catalin one. See this page: http://www.telephonearchive.com/phones/north/north-h6.html
I love it, it looks alot like an old phone that I got when I worked at the Joliet Army Ammunition plant in Joliet IL. I still have it and it still works just fine.