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hi,
jusr curious. does the spacesaver phone have a battery in it to carry the voice, or does it get its line voltage from the co? a friend of mine has one. it is in good condition, are they worth anything? or a dime a dozen???....bob

spacesaver is a regular compact phone ,no internal bell was one way to save space

no battery

they have some collector value amount depends on which model , color and condition

The phone came without a ringer and a network. As I recall you needed an external box that contained both those items.

Sam

Sam
all the ones Ive seen had networks , just no ringer
(external ringer box's if needed )

without a network you just have a handset and hook switch

off course "space saver " covers a broad range

as I recall candlesticks and 202 had external ringer /network box's

Skip -

WECO 212 "Hang-up-on-top" space saver sticks in my memory as no network as well as no ringer.

But It's a long time ago. You're probably right.

Now that you mention it, maybe the AE phones had the network?

Oy! My head hurts from all this.

Sam

Sam

I'm down here in GTE area and this spacesaver I'm thinking off is this AE which had a network



Ive seen the WE ones and I thought they had a network but I could be wrong its been a while since Ive seen one and as I mentioned there where quite a few "space savers "

Yes,the network was in the base. (no ringer, had to use ringer box)

We had AE 43 then 83 and finally the 183 they had networks but no ringer. The 183 space saver was very rare up here.

183 was the DTMF version, right? Probably rare because trimline type phones 'hit the market'. But, I still am trying to snag a spacesaver for the counter/work bench from an old hardware store that I have in the garage. No big hurry, the garage is FULL of stuff from 3 kids and trying to jam stuff from a 3000 sq ft house, not counting the basement or separate oversize 2-car garage, into a 1500 sq ft house with a 2-car garage, WITH NO BASEMENT! John C.

do not I repeat NEVER clean out your garage; it just allows a place for your kids to store their stuff. I speak from experience!