Posted 8 years ago
Schairish9
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I picked up his cool looking rotary telephone while visiting family in TYLOR TEXAS February 2, 2013. I fell in love with it and bought it from an antique shops for myself as my birthday find. I was told it worked but once I got it home and plugged it in, it rang loud but once I answered it - I could vaguely hear the person at the other end. Nevertheless, it's a sleek cool looking telephone. I believe it must have been an uptown phone in its day. What do you think ?? 60'so or 70'something model??
It's called a Handbag/Donut Telephone and is from the 1980s.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-RETRO-SCULPTURA-WESTERN-ELECTRIC-DONUT-HANDBAG-PHONE-MAGIC-JACK-VOIP-/181902494682?hash=item2a5a3bcbda:g:lYQAAOSwAYtWHeJ9
http://www.ebay.com/itm/WORKING-PUSH-BUTTON-HANDBAG-TELEPHONE-/161914285554?hash=item25b2d7edf2:g:VsoAAOSw14xWQTZe
Your Sculptura phone or called donut phone is a reissue in 1989 by a company called polyflame located in Hong-Kong. It's a retro-look of the phone produced by Western Electric Co for the Bell System in 1976.
Thank you do much. Tomtucker and Efesgirl.