On Thu, 13 May 2010 09:47:35 -0700, terry wrote:

The phone picture
seems to indicate that it may not be a genuine 'vintage' phone? Maybe
something made to look 'old'! But have no definitive information.

"It is a replica of an old one." kind of gives that away ;-)

If it is an old European phone there is some chance when dialling that
its dial speed and/or interval of dial pulsing may not be suitable for a
North American dial system

Yes, I've been trying to find information on the exact differences for a
while; I've got a 1940's UK phone that I'd like to use with the system in
the US if possible one day. All strowger-based setups (or modern systems
designed to emulate them) in different territories seem to be similar,
but not necessarily identical.

So some of these quaint phones may be suitable to only talking,
not dialling.

I wired up another 1960's-vintage rotary when I was living in the UK. It
had probably been 20 years since I last used one. It was amazing how much
longer it took to dial numbers compared to a more modern tone-based phone!

cheers

Jules