Modern Art telephones: 8 models from the collection of the MOMA
Common household items, that is what telephones are. But are they art? Or even Art? Of course opinions and tastes differ widely. Nevertheless MOMA, the […]
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Grey mice : what is the difference between a T65 and FeTAp 61?
So similar that it is hard to tell them apart: the Dutch T65 (left) and the German FeTAp 61 (right), known in Germany as Graue […]
Brand new dial, suspended in acrylic
That moment when you see an object and you just know that if you do not get it, it will keep gnawing at you forever? […]
Farmfresh, or so I thought: Heemaf model 1931
A couple of years ago I bought this Heemaf 1931 on line. Not that I needed one. I already had several of them. But this […]
Radio flea market Rosmalen 11 maart 2017
Flea market is perhaps not quite the correct term. It’s all too clean and neat for t hat. Well sorted stalls, reasonably carefully arranged wares, no boxes with dirty […]
A real fake and I did not spot it at first!
Fake, not real. Intentionally made to look like something it is not. And for months I thought it was real. Until I got it home […]
Hitler’s telephone for sale!
Oh wow! Imagine that, owning this red beauty. But it is very unlikely that much German was ever spoken through its mouth piece. It certainly […]
THG Swap meet and sofa surfing, October 8th 2016
I had never been to a swap meet before. My friend Andy suggested it to me and I could sleep on his sofa. Sounded like […]
Where do I put my finger?
To dial a telephone number, you put your finger in a disc with holes in it, right? Well, actually no, not always. Although the rotary dial […]
Belgian automatic magic: 4 ITT/Standard Electric dial telephones that came from Antwerp and went global
BTMC, the Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company, was founded as a base from which Europe could be conquered for the Bell telephone company, later for the […]