Sold on Ebay for Winning bid:
US $1,036.00
https://www.ebay.com/itm/160880470351?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649 Ed, How many of these do you have in your warehouse?
I'm not sure why people refer to -62 blue as "aqua", but that is beside the point. Ivory (-50) is also referred to as 'beige'. These people have NO idea what beige really is!
I know that this is a rare find, and obviously genuine based upon the picture, but $1,036.00? Are you kidding me? That is just insane!
I can't even begin to imagine how many hundreds (perhaps thousands) of 1A2 phones that I threw away. ComKey sets as well. Oh, if only I got a few dollars for each one of them back in the day.........
yes, and last week a WE551c sold for $520.99
Oh boy. I need to go back to stripping wire closets (as a courtesy, of course) for the customers. This is insane. At over $500.00, I could afford to fly to my sister's house and scoop up the abandoned 551C that is in her basement, pack it, ship it, have a few airport beers, a few more on the plane and fly home while still making a profit!
It is advertised as Aqua Blue because that is the official Bell System name for color suffix -62
Here are a few more:
3 BLACK
56 YELLOW, pastel
57 BLUE, teal
58 WHITE
59 PINK, rose
60 BEIGE, light
61 GRAY
62 BLUE, aqua “
63 GOLD bell chime
64 TURQUOISE
It was purchased by a friend of mine in the collecting community who has an extensive collection of aqua WE equipment. He will probably sell one of his other not-so-perfect blue KV's to cover part of the purchase price for this absolutely mint example. It's just like stamp collecting or car collecting. You keep upgrading the collection.
Just curious...In the photos you can see slight surface rust around the rubber feet. About half the phones in my collection have this problem.
Was this caused by dissimilar metals in the base and rivets for the feet, or was it some kind of reaction between the rubber and the base of the phone?
According to some people who have studied this problem, it is caused by a chemical deterioration of the rubber feet. Something acidic leaches out and attacks the plating of the metal base, allowing rust to get started.