Misc. Collectibles

Misc Collectibles

100 years of Bell Telephones (with price guide), by Richard Mountjoy: From the Coffin sets of the 1870’s to the Princess phones of the 1960’s and beyond, this book explores the technology and the history of the telephone. Because the Bell Company was the “sole source” for much telephone technology until very recently, much of the public access to this information has been quite limited. This definitive work will end much uncertainty by providing a vast amount of information never before published. Design changes are carefully chronicled with 350 color photographs. Here is detailed information which will help identify a piece and will take the guess work out of dating equipment. For those who are restoring a telephone and would like to ensure its historical accuracy, this book will make it easy to match pieces correctly. Printed full color plastic coated cover, 175 pages, 8 ½” x 11”.

Bell Telephones.......................................................................................................$29.95

Telephone Collecting, Seven Decades of Design (with price guide), by Kate E. Dooner: The styles of the telephones are often overlooked for their functionality, for nearly everyone uses one. But here, in informative text with over 250 color photographs, a history of the design of the telephone is presented from the Art Deco years to novelty phones of the 1980’s. In this book, the largest telephone companies are discussed including: Western Electric, Automatic Electric, Stromberg-Carlson, Kellogg, and North Electric. Major sections are devoted to European telephones and novelty phones. Memories will recur as you page through the book to see the phones you grew up with. Old telephones are appearing in antiques and collectors’ shops throughout America, becoming one of the hottest new funds for collecting or just as accent pieces. A price guide is included. Printed full color plastic coated cover, 128 pages, 8 ½” x 11”.

Telephone Collecting.............................................................................................$24.95

Scales - A Collector's Guide: At long last, a definitive book about scales. While nearly every business and home has at least one scale, Scales - A Collector's Guide showcases hundreds of color photographs of the most collectible scales ever made. Tucked in its pages are scales for diamonds, eggs, the bathroom, martinis, golf clubs, coin-operated types and even toy scales. Size ranges from fit-in-the-hand styles to large cast iron store scales; from beautiful sterling silver scales made by Tiffany to fishing varieties. Indeed, the range seems almost infinite. Twelve chapters cover specific types of scales, including the above listing, others cover shop types, grain, dairy, gold, coin and gems styles, people scales and miniature types. Another chapter addresses the building and expansion of a collection. A resource section directs the reader to related reading and research material. Most entries include a value, which in our estimation, are accurate. If you like mechanical gadgets, this book is bound to hit your soft spot; if you have ever used a scale, or just love scales, this book is the best ever written on the subject. Scales- A Collectors Guide measures 8 1/2" x 11", contains 160 pages and is perfect bound with a full-color, plastic-coated soft cover.

Scales............................................................................................................................................................$29.95

Mike Munves Arcade Supply Catalog: This 1956 catalog of arcade and amusement machines has just about everything, new and old; kiddie rides, card venders, animated games, shooting galleries, popcorn vender, cigarette machines, photo and recording booths, mutoscope, drop picture machines, fortune tellers, jukeboxes, scales, strength machines, punching bags, counter games, gum and peanut venders, pinballs, tools and coin-counting machines. This authentic reprint has 249 illustrations and is printed with blue ink on white paper, just like the original 28 pages (missing pages 13 through 16). 8 1/2" x 11", saddle-stitched.

Mike Munves Reprint........................................................................................................$3.95