Phones and Phoneys

I reblog pictures of old phones and related things. Sometimes I identify them if I can. Sometimes I infodump.

[chuckletons]

oddly delightful homers

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Western Electric Autovon Type 3500

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oddly delightful homers

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Western Electric Autovon Type 3500

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I love when phones are insane and evil like this. Like what the hell do you think you're doing.

[cravinganescape]

Transparent desktop phone from the 1980's !

[huntedspy]

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Western Electric Type 2500

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Found something fun and that is that the Socotel S63 (brown) isnt the only telephone with the little round ears; the Dutch PTT T65 (grey) does too. This will be good to remember when identifying phones since its a really stand out feature.

The Ericsson Dialog also seems to have similar sort of round ears but the thing is, Ericssons are SO easy to identify bc the things stand out like a sore thumb. They have so many little things like the square at the bottom and the silly dial like they're always similar but too different to your other brands.

Here's also a super cool article going into the history of the T65. I usually struggle reading articles but this one is very accessible and well formatted.

[petpetpinixy]

can't draw phones for shit so i'm using the ones from adventure time as references. they're cute i think

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Coin OP NTT 675S-A2; Western Electric Type 500; Western Electric Type 2500 (x2!)

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[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

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Iskra ETA 82

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Hi :3

Okay first and foremost SUCH a cutie absolutely love it. I love wide and round telephones like this. Always so silly.

That aside, I'll admit I can't identify this to save my life. But! BUT ☝️ before I'm egged for failing at my sole gimmick I'll defend myself saying this is not a classic rotary but a retro simil one.

The closest I managed to get where these two:

Astral Belgravia Telephone & Microtel 96410

Both are fake rotaries, have golden details, the same rotary dial style (very distinctive; gpo makes similar telephones yet is plain), same stand, and both are waterdrop shaped, thin at the top thick at the bottom. But Microtel is WAY too thin, and Astral is So close but it's not wide enough!

So yes, no. This phone is so cute and I love its curves but I'm not the guy to identify it SMDHNFVF </3

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Huge day for me because I haven't stopped thinking about this telephone since I got the ask, I have found which one it is LIKELY based on. The ATC empress rotary.

I still have no clue which company made the push button version but this is a step on the right direction

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Just found out about the Siemens S62! Not only is it a very cute and silly phone with its little round ears like a hamster but it's also very common in customizing circles, and in Italy!

It also had a push button version (unsurprising, this same method was used on the 791 and 611) and a wall version. The wall version looks even sillier and cuter ♥

[junk-disorderly]

Telephone Sheep by Jean Luc Cornec

[femmeharlequin-deactivated20240]

Oh these are the electric sheep the androids dream about

[kshaar]

ohhh “cable knit” i get it now

[eight-times-nine]

@entities-of-posts the Extinction?

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Seconded

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Siemens FeTAp 61

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Cool website found :3 limited but cool!!!

[raccoonmilf]

Just had a zoom call with my advisor and it turned out I made a very important raccoon behavior discovery and it’s so important that she specifically told me “DO NOT POST ABOUT WHAT YOU SAW ON SOCIAL MEDIA.”

So I’m not gonna. But trust it was real cool and hopefully y’all will know about it some time this year or next once I write about and get it published 😎

[tyrannosaurus-tex]

Raccoons are secretly aliens.

[pleurocoelus]

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Can raccoons can use rotary telephones? Maybe?

[helloparkerrose]

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Top to bottom, left to right: Standard Electric B-5111; Standard Electric type B-5111; Siemens FeTAp 611; Standard Electric type B-5111; Siemens FeTAp 791; Siemens FeTAp 611; Siemens FeTAp 791; Western Electric type 500; Budavox MT-015053; Siemens FeTAp 611; Siemens FeTAp 611; SIP Sirio

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CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD (2025) dir. Eli Craig

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Western Electric type 500

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Office Halloween Party, 1980s

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Western Electric Type 2500

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My favorite genre of self-portrait is cartoonists being bothered by their characters while trying to draw

Bill Watterson – Calvin and Hobbes (1986)

Hergé – Tintin (1947, Tintin Magazine)

Jeff Smith – Bone (1993, Bone Holiday Special)

Walt Kelly – Pogo (1950, Maclean's Magazine)

And a bonus:

Berkeley Breathed – Bloom County

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Siemens W48