![Coin Op Pay Phone, Lot 1: This item requires third-party shipping or pickup arrangements to be made.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/7043/333327/179961747_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718324432)
Antique & Vintage Telephones
![Coin Op Pay Phone, Lot 1: This item requires third-party shipping or pickup arrangements to be made.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/7043/333327/179961747_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718324432)
![Western Electric Bell System Telephones: Getting both](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5837/333226/179889826_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718293383)
![Western Electric Railroad Telegraph Gill Selector: Western Electric Railroad Telegraph Gill Selector D-86522 comes with telegraph unit, measures 4 inches tall. This item was taken from an estate where the electronics were set up in a working shortwave](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/315/332593/179393310_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717694197)
![Old WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY industrial amperage meter, found in attic of local estate, great look,: Old WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY industrial amperage meter, found in attic of local estate, great look, details, and in nice found condition. Measures 10.5" x 6".](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/808/333404/180019835_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718375897)
![Coin Op Pay Phone, Lot 2: This item requires third-party shipping or pickup arrangements to be made.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/7043/333327/179961782_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718324432)
![New York Central Railroad West Shore Western Electric Marine Engine Plates and Stony Point Ferry: A pair of New York Central System items including a pair of West Shore New York Central Railroad Western Electric Hawthorn Marine Engine / Electric Generator Plates From Unknown Ferryboat labeled and](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/7489/331729/178958549_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717089630)
![Western Electric Crank Oak Wall Phone: Early 20th century oak wall phone with shelf, plate below mouthpiece marked "Western Electric / 323W / Pat in USA Jan 14 1913", bells ring when crank is turned; 8"W, 18 3/4"L, 9"D---Condition: good co](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1133/333050/179830400_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718220137)
![Lot of 3 Bell System Western Electric Rotary Telephones: Lot of 3 Bell System Western Electric Rotary Telephones. All invoices must be paid within 24 hours of the sale. We offer multiple shipping options please read the shipping terms to understand your opt](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/315/332593/179393144_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717694197)
![Antique Sterling Silver Webster Rotary Phone Dialer Monogramed: Antique Monogrammed Sterling Silver Webster marked Phone dialer for rotary phone. Tip appears to be bakelite or catalin. Measures 3 1/8".](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/7277/331489/178781957_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718383961)
![Antique telephone by Western Electric: Antique oak wall mount telephone by Western Electric est. value $550.00-$650.00](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2863/332656/179448032_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717785368)
![Antique telephone by Western Electric: Antique oak wall mount telephone by Western Electric est. value $550.00-$650.00](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2863/333614/180217657_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718534727)
![Motorola Razor V3: Dark blue Motorola Razor Flip Phone](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9093/331861/179026058_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717710364)
![Art Deco Type 40 Ivory Chrome Trim Telephone by Monophone, Circa 1930: This wonderful working example of 1930s design is sure to fit into your period decorating scheme. The RRRING of this classic is unlike anything available in modern phones, and it is will definitely ge](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5584/330834/178768241_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716923989)
![RARE WESTERN ELECTRIC COFFIN TELEPHONE TRANSMITTER: Consists of two pieces. 1) Early Western Electric New York coffin telephone Transmitter. Numbered 127. 12 1/2 inches long x 6 1/2 inches wide x 5 1/2 inches tall. Good condition. 2) W E M F G NewYork](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6189/332626/179408410_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717712869)
![WESTERN ELECTRIC OAK CASED WALL TELEPHONE: Early 20th c. Crank Operated Wall Phone, with dovetailed oak case, tilting mouthpiece, working bells, original wiring, maker's decal affixed to front, 1913 dated wiring diagram affixed to door interio](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/957/331421/178761153_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716928022)
News about Antique & Vintage Telephones
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Bell telephones from the 1870s answered the call at White’s Auctions
MIDDLEBORO, MA – Relics from the dawn of the electromagnetic telephone created a sensation when they appeared for sale in Plymouth County, Massachusetts earlier this week. The collection of telephone apparatus dating from the pioneering years of the late 1870s was offered at White’s Auctions on April 14 from the estate of a collector. Complete […]
![Antique telephones ring a bell with collectors](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-30-at-6.02.05-PM.png)
Antique telephones ring a bell with collectors
NEW YORK – Have you seen the TV commercial where Alexander Graham Bell is at a play, sitting in the balcony and annoying everyone around him because he’s talking on the phone? The caller got a wrong number and Bell tells him, “No, no, my number is one. You must want two. Two I say!”
![Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers to ring up pioneer telephones Aug. 4](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/63672316_1_x.jpg)
Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers to ring up pioneer telephones Aug. 4
CRANSTON, R.I. – An antique telephone auction featuring items from two regional chapters of Verizon’s Telephone Pioneers of America Museum – one the William J. Denver Chapter no. 20 museum in Providence, R.I., the other the Excelsior Chapter no. 98 in Buffalo, N.Y. – will be held on Saturday, August 4, by Bruneau & Co. […]
![Former TV exec’s antique telephones star in Dec. 7 auction at Morphy’s](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2014_1202_morphy802_lead.jpg)
Former TV exec’s antique telephones star in Dec. 7 auction at Morphy’s
DENVER, Pa. – Peter D’Acosta, whose 25-year collection of antique candlestick phones is featured on day two of Morphy’s Dec. 6-7 Fine & Decorative Arts Auction, says it was a classic American TV show that inspired him to “dial in” to the quaint early devices. “In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I was running […]