Please be sure to read the description as the payphone is sold as shown and described; and if you have any questions please call us at Phoneco (608) 582-4124. No returns. We are not responsible for your mistake for not reading our description. Sold as shown in the photographs, please see photos for best description of cosmetic condition and style.

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This item expected to ship on the following Wednesday or Thursday after bid close and payment is received.

This phone does not work and is not wired so it will not immediately work.

This one has a 1930's style old vault door but is held in by a spring, no lock therefore no key. 

Western Electric-Tagged 1950s-60s 3-Slot Payphone

Very typical of most any 212, 223, 233, 234, 236 Western Electric or 1950s-1960s Northern Electric. The original number likely was painted over without reverence to designation. No recent part were purposely used in the reassembly of this old payphone except for perhaps for small incidentals such as screws, nuts or rivet type small hardware. Perhaps some signage. In other words, the top, top sign, back, bottom, switch, hook, dial and other incidentals are old and for the most part, original equipment.  The top sign came off of a phone with one of these numbers.  The phone came out of Indianapolis. Whether the effects the capability of the coil is not readily known. A 427-type network is available inside for assist in wiring the phone to talk, listen and dial out. The top houses a recent channel and tray.  The dial finger wheel is metal and the handset is an ordinary old Western Electric.  No coin return / reject button which leads to suspect it is an older top housing or was strictly post-pay.  The relay coil on the bottom housing tray is the old Automatic Electric double coil type with 1 coil smaller but a Western Electric design in so far as the "A frame" design with springs.

The Vault Door you see on this phone is NOT a re-pro, but genuine old vault door originally equipped with lock and key. These doors are the same as those which date back into the 1930's. I am not familiar with subtle details which determine exact dates; I just know that the doors were made prior to the early 1970's and used in Automatic Electric payphones until both Northern Electric and Automatic Electric ceased making them in 1972. If you had these made in the same design as these in 2016, the cost would likely exceed $35. Old doors such as these are, can have a peak value of $60 or more. And here they are, being offered as part of the payphone adding to the credibility of an old assembly.

Options:

Old Read Sign or Dial First $19.00

Make Functional $60.00

Add Ringer $15 

Old Locking Door with key $45.00

History of the Payphone Book $9.95

Other changes can be made. We welcome your calls w/questions 608 582 4124 

I want to sell completely out! So I scraped up numerous unfinished payphone bottoms and tops, some new pieces but mostly old parts that had been sitting around here for decades. Some of these bodies were refinished. I've reassembled a few using mostly old parts that also had accumulated through the years beginning in the early 1980's.

Where a payphone is sold as is such via Ebay, I will make observations and hope that my assistant-repairman will assist in this to seek contentment. Very strong effort is applied to represent the phone as it is described and shown; that is what you should receive. These are not lightweight, and shipping costs be what they are don't seem to reduce even though gasoline prices have gone down. A certain amount of responsibility lies with you, a buyer in observing the reality of the purchase. And, again to my knowledge, all transactions have been successful so far as contentment of purchase is concerned. Thank you for acknowledging the conditions of sales.

Anything that was phone can still be a phone; with the re-arranging of wires and hooking up a line-cord (providing that the dial is okay and the handset has functioning capsules). I have more of these and am in pursuit of selling all. If you drop coins through, the gong and dong should sound off as originally, although I did not try it. This is a nice coin-op item although it doesn't require a coin to operate as it is now.