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Here are some Youtube vids of my personal collection, now up to approx. 95 phones

Here's the first vid:


second:


And third:


My channel also has other telecom stuff that may be of interest to some of you as well.

Thank you for sharing your collection with us. I guess I'm a phone geek because I enjoyed watching all three!

I only have a tiny collection myself because I look for the bargains at garage sales and flea markets. For me, part of the fun of collecting is in the hunt.

Dave, you're quite welcome! glad you enjoyed it.
This has been an ongoing collection since around 2003-2004, the name TPR (name of my "museum") stands for The Phone Room, because in the beginning I had about 10-15 phones consisting of several "500" sets as well as a few Trimlines and Princess phones in a spare room. Now as you see, it's all in my basement!

Most of my collection has been found at flea markets, garage sales, friends giving me stuff, and a few from Ebay. the two most expensive ones were the 3 slot payphone, and the Kellogg wooden wall phone, which is in another video. both were over $120 apiece.

At 1:42 in tube #3, the red tags indicate "defect" (where the arrow points) and "do not climb."

You mention PBX's. What do you have in the collection? What was that blue-colored thing, off to the right of the screen in tube #3?

Arthur, yes, the red tags were given to me by a lineman, I had the first one wrong, thanks for the correction.
The PBX I have is a WE 551C 1A2 and a Panasonic Easa Phone 308.

Here's the 551:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/phone-man/4986835914/

And the blue thing is my 1972 pinball machine waiting for me to restore it!

Well technically those are not PBXes. Those are key systems