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Vintage COOL BLUE Bell System Western Electric Rotary Dial Telephone. Model 500

$ 36.96

Availability: 86 in stock
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Brand: Western Electric
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Featured Refinements: Rotary Dial Telephone
  • Condition: Estate find
  • Modified Item: No

    Description

    Here I have a great vintage powder blue rotary dial telephone by Western Electric. The Handset and dial have aged to a slightly different color than the phone itself. Phone is clean with no breaks on body or handset. One of the plastic tabs on the end of the blue curly cord is broken. Phone is heavy weighing over 4.5 lbs.
    The model 500 was the Bell System's mainstay
    telephone
    from the 1950s through the 1980s. When it was designed in 1949 by Henry Dreyfuss, whose firm also conceived the
    WE 302
    , rotary-dial technology was state of the art