One 1940 – 1949 Non Dial 3-Slot Western Electric Payphone 182D - Working

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1940 – 1949 Non Dial 3-Slot Western Electric Payphone 182D  -  Working - #182D 30C lock and key, 65 on door (1965). Old direction card 1958. F handset with correct hook, 21B key lock in top. Key may be 1980s or 90s. Old cast back. Single coil or tray added in 1960s or 1970s. A 1945 101B, appears to work. Non dial originally; proper Bakelite bucket and original Western Electric/Bell System nameplate. Old channels, coins should ding, dong okay. Not many of these remaining in North America. This one has a dated 1945 101 coil (network) 1980 single coil update inside the bottom's tray, as stated this has an old 30C (Western Electric lock) door, F handset. Also an original bakelike bucket, date is 1961 on the channels, so it got converted to dime without changing the number from 182 to a 190 something. The 180 series began in 1940 with/as the 1
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handset offering. It overlapped (and was converted into) the 190 series beginning with number 191 since it then required a dime instead of a nickle. The 180 series are an “endangered species” even though they are not real popular, without a dial. But they are original as this 182D without a dial for areas with no dial service. The 180 series had the acclaimed “first handset”. I question this as authentic because there is evidence of an E handset before 1940. I don't expect that there may be many around for years to come. I recall removing one for Sid P. from a Canadian border phone booth in the early 1990s or late 19880s. It seemed strange to find a Western Electric in the small community of Niagara, WI. I don't think that Ray and Sid's company was with Bell; and they may have come across the phone at the Supply Co. in Shiocton, WI (Midwest Telephone Supply Co, Appleton, WI. Who encountered older phones (even 1905 type Grays) from helter skelter sources even maybe Bell companies around Milwaukee, North, South and West. This phone is expected to talk and listen.