Thread: "Butt" 'phone
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Old 28th May 2019, 3:14 pm   #46
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Default Re: "Butt" 'phone

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Originally Posted by QQVO6/40 View Post
I keep wondering how a poor lonely little Aussie butt phone found itself in a car boot sale in the "Old Dart"?
Just to clarify, this 'phone wasn't bought at a car boot sale, it was from a telephone dealer at the National Vintage Telecommunications Fair.

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Originally Posted by QQVO6/40 View Post
I guess Dave that your phone somewhere along has been discarded or nicked way back in the mists of history.
I assume it entered the collectors' market in a similar manner to the ones displayed earlier in this thread, but somehow accompanied its then owner on a trip from Oz to Blighty.
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