If These Shirts Could Talk: The Tantalizing Tales Behind Used Clothes
Jockeying for Position: How Boxers and Briefs Got Into Men's Pants
Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
Blood, Sweat, and Steel: My Afternoon with the Ace of Swords
'The Great Gatsby' Still Gets Flappers Wrong
Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
Forget TV Pickers, Meet the Real Mavericks of the Antiques World
Coveting The Craziest Cat-People Collectibles
Posted 1 year ago
alexanderp…
(1 item)
This phone was given to me as a gift by someone who worked for the old UNION TELEFONICA of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in or about 1969.
Please notice the engraved triangle with the letters UT at the bottom of the phone's front shot. I am interested in knowing who made this antique phone. The inner parts were gutted, so, I need to restore the inner magneto and crank, but would rather use the original rather than import one from any American wall phone. Please note that the British installed and ran most Argentina's infrastructure at the time of these phones. Also, its approximate value. Thank you.
Wood TelephonesThe telephone was introduced by Alexander Graham Bell at a world's fair, th…