The Oslo phone with an unusual accessory

This phone has a standard dial, not the often seen backwards dial on other Oslos.  It also has a one-inch diameter 3-position switch knob and an unused look to it all, except for the handset, which may have been exposed more to the elements over the 80 or so years.  The plug is an eggshell white 3-prong.

Numerous additional phones are available like this one but without switch knobs, and many may have oak wall crank phone size brass bells and most have cloth cords.  We will sell these for $2.00 each in quantities via eBay.  A sample may be purchased for $15.00 via eBay.

Bob Prosser saw old telephones while in Europe serving in the Army in 1944.  He found that the telcos were going to replace their old crank phones with dial-type, and he brought thousands of old telephones out of Europe.

The cheap plain multi-colored plastic phones weren't quite on the market yet, especially from Europe; however, a few colored phones were already in elaborate homes in the 1940s.

Bob bought these phones in the 1960s.  I bought these and others from Bob in the 1970s and 1980s.  Just three colors were amongst them:  ivory (which is beautiful), gray, and black.  Many still had the woodwall crank phone size bells in them and cloth cords.  I want to sell the real estate that houses thousands of old telephone items and am unable to inspect each one unless it was for a higher value.

So you do risk that these are or are not equipped with 2-1/2" brass bells, and/or cloth or rubber cords, and if any function electrically/mechanically works satisfactorily.  I can supply smaller bells and make these so that they will function on even a cell line.

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