For all intents and purposes, this is an antique. For starters, it's a rotary phone - the likes of which have disappeared in the 80s when the button type - of which I thought was high tech then, but equally phased out now with the advent of the iPhones and their like... using touch screen capabilities.
Nope, the rotary phone was long gone. Add to that the fact that this particular phone is also an early model of the rotary style, with its long neck rising up to the microphone that people need to talk into and the small speaker-like receiver to be placed by the ear for listening.
I'd hazard a guess that this particular model came from the 1950s, maybe older. So why did I take this picture? I;m a bit of an anachronist. I like time displaced stuff, just like this, for display purposes... and if they still work... wow, that would be something (which is why I also like the TV show restorers - I love seeing them restore antique stuff).
This phone is part of history... you'll probably see it in some old black and white (or sepia) photo - or maybe, if you happen to go into curio shops, you might chance upon a similar (maybe even better shaped) model , and if you're like me... you'll someday have the chance to display such a piece, for others to look at and marvel. After all, rotary type phones have not been around for decades - today's teens have never seen it used, and people like me just think about the times when private lines were a status symbol... where phones were not something anyone had and applications for such sometimes took years, and party-lines were tolerated.
Sounds like a nightmare in this day and age, where having two cellular phones is seemingly normal? You bet. Thank God for progress.
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