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What other colors did WECO have in those days? I haven't seen much else on epay or the usual sites.

Every once in a while I'll see a poster or two that shows various colored phones up for sale on eBay. Arthur has quite a collection of phones. I think he posted some pictures a while back.

I'm considering collecting princess phones next. Rotary of course. I want my 500 set collection relatively complete, colorwise, before that though. I don't have the time or money to start chasing down models with dial lights, exclusion switches or 2-line models just yet. Those are all connected, by the way. I'm a little leary of connecting any more to my partner system though. Even though I only have 2 max on any port, I don't want to overload the power supplies every time the phone rings. It's pretty ridiculous as it is. The cats hit the ceiling every time I get a call.

My pink 500 finally arrived!

They came in black, white, beige, ivory, yellow, green, red, blue, turquoise, light gray, pink, clear, dark brown, dark blue, dark beige, dark gray, and a few other special-order colors. One of the members of TCI had a display of all the 500 colors at the recent Lancaster annual meet. ITT made sets in "ash" which is a color that is sort of in-between ivory and gray.

In later years "white" became known as "Dove Gray".

A check of the 900 series telephones manufactured by Philips for AT&T/Lucent shows the telephone boxes were labeled as such. The coiled handset cord included with the 900 series models was a perfect match for white Western Electric telephones.

When VTech acquired the Consumer Product line from Lucent in 2000, the white color changed to a bright white, thus rendering the older white cords a poor match.

SC and probably ITT made orange sets, too.

Still have a ITT in orange.

I would love an SC or ITT in orange but the prices are ridiculous on ebay and such. I also just added a payphone to my collection. I got it to work but it needs reprogramming. Its some sort of Intellicall unit. It has an external 24vac wall wart and has a terrible voice that tells you to add more money.

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