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I was looking for some advice on the best way to display my collection. I know that's a loaded question, but my collection consists of mostly 2500 and 256x series desk phones. Anything else that I have will fit in the same footprint.

What works best? Shelving? Cabinets?

Thanks...Lou

Lou, where are you going to display them. Home, office, etc.
That will help to ans your question .

I use plain white shelf material, supported by brackets, or "assemble-it-yourself" white book shelf units from Home Depot. The one in the picture was a dump find that seemed to work for a traveling display. It's about 3' by 5' by 10" deep.

They will be displayed at home. I do have plenty of wall space in my downstairs rooms.

Nice Arthur...love that pink.

I'm not too much of a phone nerd, but in the movie "Midnight Cowboy" there is one of those pink 565 keysets.

Really? I will have to check that out and add it to my "phones in the movies" spreadsheet. There was a pink 565 in the film "Bye Bye Birdie" starring Ann Margret, who waltzed around the room holding and talking on the phone. I seem to recall that the line 1 lamp was lit, but the phone had a 25' pink 4-conductor cord, not the standard 25-pair one.