Larry Caldwell wrote:
In article , (dpb) says...
Larry Caldwell wrote:
In article ,
(Irene) says...
There's an old, wall-mounted rotary phone in the kitchen ...
...the house was built in 1972. ...
That phone was an antique in 1972. It's probably about 70 years old.
...
???
They took a 1930's-vintage phone and hung it in a new kitchen in 1972?
_Highly_ unlikely, I'd say...
It depends on what it looks like. In 1972, it was still illegal for
anyone to connect personal equipment to phone company lines. Ma Bell
would have installed a wall mount phone with a plastic case. If it has
a wood case, it's an antique.
OP never said it had a wooden case. He said it was mounted on a board
fastened to the wall. Not uncommon in older houses with plaster walls,
but a little unusual in a 1972 house, unless installer couldn't find a
stud, or wall was damaged when somebody knocked it off wall or
something. Maybe the board is all that was left of a
chalkboard/corkboard that the builder put the kitchen prewire in. (Until
WWII, they used to put a niche in hallway wall for the phone, since each
house only got one.)
Note to OP- if you can post some digital pics somewhere, and put a link
back here, we can tell you exactly what you have and how it is mounted.
Closeup front and side views, please.
aem sends...