Great for a collector or for that cool "olde world" display in the house
Fully working
Telecom Home Telephone
Cream case - the photographs look far more yellow than it is in reality (bad daylight/bad lighting)
Model 802
Clear plastic finger stop on the dial, numbering inside the dial ring
Circa 1970's
Rotary dial which means pulse signalling (decadic pulses) ONLY SEE MY COMMENTS ABOUT THIS BELOW
COSMETIC CONDITION:
Very clean, sterilised
Curly cord to the handset is in very good condition
Internally, stock standard and no modifications have been made
Typical with these cases, light case fading (the cream going slightly yellow)
Centre of the dial number circle (light cardboard) is missing as is the clamp - just cut a nice white circle to fit, making it slightly oversized so the circle stays in place.
TESTING:
Supplied with a standard Telco wall plug, plugged it in and then checked outgoing and incoming calls - no problems at all
Lovely old bell ringing - this has an adjustment underneath so you vary the incoming ringing from a buzzing sound to the full on bells ringing - electro mechanical bells not the horrible electronic ringers in later models.
Rotary dial speed is correct and smooth in operation
*** these telephones were designed to use the old pulse signalling - sending pulses to the exchange to indicate the number you have dialled - these days tones are used however MOST Telstra telephone exchanges will still "understand" the phone but these phones will NOT work with modern private phone systems that are expecting to receive tones - example: say you called a large business and the message you get is something like "please dial 1 for customer service, 2 for billing enquiries etc" - this phone will not be able to tell those systems what service you require because it does not send tones.
To use this telephone you MUST have a two wire landline service (active) to your home, OR you can use it via a VOIP box to answer calls however you will not be able to call out - this phone does not produce the required DTMF tones
Functional old world telephone where you have a desire to create that olde world feel in the house or even on a film/video set, which many of my phones being used as set props
