Thread: "Butt" 'phone
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Old 14th May 2019, 9:13 pm   #4
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Default Re: "Butt" 'phone

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Originally Posted by ChrisC18Mar View Post
The handset and microphone cover look very like a Tele F (etc) handset - could it be military?
The mouthpiece cover is certainly of the field telephone variety, but I have no guarantee that it's original. The rest of the handset has a superficial resemblance to that of said field telephones, but there are significant differences.

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Originally Posted by ChrisC18Mar View Post
The dial looks a bit out of place - could it have replaced an earlier No.10 dial?
As I implied in the OP, the dial is almost certainly something that has just been stuffed in the hole after the original had been removed - rather crudely by snipping its wires.

I think I have a more appropriate dial that I can substitute.
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