Vintage MonoPhone Rotary

I rescued this from a garage north of Detroit that was about to be demolished. If you're interested I have some amazing pictures of the place, which had been out of business since the early 2000's.

I remember the Bell and AT&T system phones from the 80's, and they were nowhere this heavy. I GUESS that the 61 on the bottom is a manufacture date of 1961, perhaps a phone collector can help me with dating this. It has an advertising sticker on the back of the handset that adds to the patina, and the phone number of the garage in typewriter font that we now call Courier. This was the only item in the garage office that wasn't absolutely destroyed to 20+ years of a leaky roof and animal infestation, a testament to how solid it is.

Thanks for looking!


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About Us

We sell radios, cameras, antiques, collectables, clothes, oddities, household goods, records, and all sorts of fun things. We're an ordinary couple with full-time jobs who love garage sales, auctions, estate sales, consignment stores, hamfests, and thrift stores. We are always on the hunt for unique, vintage, and beautiful items.

Take a look around, our inventory is constantly changing. If you want to get to know us, visit our YouTube Channel The Adventures of Yorksie and Me.



Shipping

Our items are well-packed, with valuable items in NEW double wall ULINE boxes, with plenty of bubble pack and peanuts.

We prefer to ship with the post office, offering Priority or Ground service. Modern automated postal handling machines are not kind to fine antiques and collectables, and despite our best efforts at diligent packaging we have had items destroyed, and a few have simply vanished. For this reason, we will not ship any item with a value greater than $25 without adding insurance. As eBay has no way to do this, the insurance is added as a handling fee of $1.70.

Large, heavy items we ship UPS ground. As we live 15 minutes from the nearest UPS store, please be patient with us when purchasing a large, heavy item.

Any of our items are available for pickup at our Pinckney, Michigan location. If you choose to pickup, either pay on eBay or bring cash, we do not take checks.

If the item shows up damaged, destroyed, or doesn't show up at all YOU need to work with us so we can submit the claim to ShipCover (eBay/USPS) or UPS. Take plenty of pictures, and don't throw away the box or packaging.

eBay quotes the shipping cost using post office or UPS API's that return the rates. We don't know what you were quoted. Some international rates quoted by eBay are just crazy.. When you purchase the item, we buy the shipping from eBay, print the label, and drop it off to the post office or the UPS store. Please don't ask us to "reduce the shipping cost" - we can't. It is not under our control. Please don't counteroffer with "X amount including shipping" as we do not know what the shipping cost to your location is. If you're international, and you get a crazy rate from eBay, if you give us your full address we will quote shipment through Pirate Ship which may or may not give a better rate.



Warranty

Nothing we sell is new. These are used items. Everything is sold AS-IS unless explicitly stated otherwise.

For electronic items, if they work, will add a video of it working. We sell a lot of vintage electronic items that are 20, 30, 40, and even 80 years old, and they do not take kindly to being shipped. If it worked when it left our store, it worked when it left our store. If it doesn't work, we will clearly state this in the description. Please, if you're buying vintage electronics, READ THE DESCRIPTION. If it says "For Parts or Repair Only", or we indicate we couldn't test it, and it doesn't work when it arrives, it is because it didn't work when it left our store! Please don't demand we return it and threaten us with a negative review because it doesn't work when we told you it didn't. Read the Description, and know what you are buying, and everyone will be happy.

Returns

We offer returns. We have the right to adjust your return if you made a false claim, damaged the item, failed to pack it properly for the return journey, or are returning it simply because you changed your mind. If you buy an item where the shipping is more than what you paid for the item and return it, we will report you as a bad buyer, and block you from the store.