The Norm Mulvey Antique Telephone Collection MUSEUM QUALITY Online Auction 2 ICONIC HISTORICAL Items
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Bidding Ends: Sunday Mar 6, 5:00 PM
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Contact: Barry Huckeby
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The Mulvey Antique Telephone Collection

Historical Online Telephone Collection Auction

TheMulveyCollection.com

FreelandAuctionServices.com

Begins Friday February 4, 2022 & Ends Sunday, March 6, 2022

Click Here to REGISTER & BID!

 

Freeland Auction Services has been entrusted to bring to market the Norman “Norm” Mulvey iconic telephone collection.  Norm worked for the Southern New England Telephone company retiring in 1995 and was a devoted member of the Antique Telephone Collectors Association.  His telephone collection was featured in the 1992 book titled “Telephones:  Antique to Modern” and contains several hundred items.  This is the 2nd absolute online auction for the Mulvey Telephone Collection. 

Mr. Mulvey was a collector's collector, specializing in all sorts of antique telephones with a concentration on Western Electric rare telephones; unique National Bell items; scarce Charles Williams phones; and museum quality “Coffin” telephones from the late 1870s. He had amassed a wonderful collection that we will be bringing to you on Proxibid.com with several featured absolute online auctions.  He consistently restored his phones perfectly, sometimes searching for years for the correct part to complete a phone. 

This collection has some of the most sought after items that he personally picked thru the years and enjoyed the ownership of for a long time. Now is your chance to own these rare pieces and add them to your collection. Every item described to a 'T" with dozens of photos so there will be no doubt that you will have value in the years to come.  You now have the opportunity to add one or more of his rare vanities, candlesticks, 6 foot tandems, unique telephone attachments, desk telephones, coin collectors, or coffins to your collection. 

Have a field day and revel in some of the most treasured items in the telephony field brought to you by Freeland Auction Services, a “Premier Auction House” connecting collectors with collections!  Good Luck in your bidding, check back often, and feel confident that you will have a great piece of history.  So, please bid confidently, and enjoy this liquidation of a wonderful ATCA member’s collection.  Shipping is available, as well as local pickup in Freeland, MI. Have fun and please contact Barry with Freeland Auction Services if you have any questions!

Mulvey Auction #2 brief listings below

·         1890 American Bell Telephone Blake Box Candlestick w/Black Box

·         Bell Telephone Laboratories Historical Model Receiver REED

·         1892 Richards Set Test Board Headset telephone part ONLY 1,000 made!

·         Western Electric Bell Telephone ONE RED BAND Long Pole BELGIUM

·         Western Electric PONY Terminal Top telephone receiver

·         1880s round wooden string telephone part

·         Western Electric speckled watchcase telephone receiver

·         1880s pair of Black String Phones with cord

·         Central Scientific Co. Chicago 1914 Brass Barameter

·         Western Electric Nickel Candlestick Telephone w/7 Digit faceplate

·         Western Electric Telephone pony receiver

·         Property of American Bell Telephone Induction Coil

·         Unknown early 1880s Wooden terminal top telephone receiver

·         Unusual telephone attachment base "WHILE TELEPHONING" Radioff

·         1877-78 Bell Telephone #636 COFFIN with wood receiver

·         unusual TOLLOMETER antique telephone attachment timer

·         Western Electric Telephone OAK Subset pat 1906

·         Western Electric wall telephone Switchboard 13" by 19"

·         1880-1892 American Bell Telephone WE Potbelly transmitter back cup

·         Western Electric Telephone PONY terminal top receiver

 

·         1880 Guiland Telephone extension bells

·         1880 Sold by Southern New England Telephone Co watchcase receiver

·         1881 Western Electric EMPTY Coffin Telephone HARD TO FIND

·         1880 Southern New England Telephone Co. version of COFFIN w/2 long poles

·         Charles Williams BOSTON Telephone extension bells stamped 2701

·         1878 Coffin American Bell Telephone Co. with pushbutton & Long Pole

·         Western Electric wall mounted Type 284 A ringer box

·         Pair of Speckled colored Western Electric Watchcase Telephone receivers

·         The American Bell Telephone Co. Long Distance Candlestick Telephone

·         Early 1880s Western Electric Telephone walnut top box

·         unusual early Western Electric Telephone walnut extension bell box

·         Guilland Telephone extension bell box

·         Early Western Electric telephone extension bell box

·         Western Electric COFFIN Telephone ORIGINAL missing switchook

·         Western Electric telephone early extension bell box

·         Western Electric telephone LONG POLE with Red receiver cap

·         Western Electric Oak telephone with Early Cast Iron Coin box apparatus

·         Western Electric walnut telephone fiddleback with BAIRD Pay Station

·         Western Electric American Bell Telephone Walnut magneto with Long Pole

·         Western Electric walnut BLAKE transmitter wall telephone

·         Western Electric 12 button metal wall hotel telephone

·         Western Electric Oak model 293 wall Phone with Gray Coin Collector

·         Western Electric 374A 12 station switchboard intercom telephone

·         1902 Western Electric type 283A oak wall apartment telephone

·         Western Electric 1897 walnut Type 101 telephone subset

·         Western Electric model 202 desk telephone with unusual timer box

·         Western Electric walnut Type 85 fiddleback telephone with Pony receiver

·         Western Electric walnut fiddleback telephone

·         Bell Telephone COFFIN stamped 792 original with 2 wooden receivers

·         Western Electric #10 candlestick telephone with Long Pole receiver

·         1903 Western Electric walnut Type 293 A apartment style telephone

·         Western Electric metal 333B wall telephone

·         Property of New England Telephone & Telegraph WE Walnut Type 85 telephone

·         Western Electric Type 296A walnut apartment style wall telephone

·         FOUR 1930s Advertising calendars with Early Telephone numbers

·         Western Electric Telephone Intercom with watchcase receiver

·         Western Electric oak telephone subset type 318A

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. Switchboard

·         Western Electric Type 24J walnut extension bell box

·         Gray Telephone Pay Station Call Central Office instruction card

·         Three unusual TWIN FONE 1930s/40s duel listening telephone devices

·         Western Union porcelain telephone call box

·         Illinois Bell Telephone Co. instruction card holder

·         Postal Telegraph Commercial Cables porcelain call box

·         1880s Telegraph Rosewood "The G.F.P. Tel Co. NY" Meters

·         Early Canadian Charles Williams JR walnut extension bell box

·         Gray Telephone Silver Dollar Pay Station Co. Porcelain Instruction Plate

·         Gray Telephone Pay Station "Call Central Office" instruction plate

·         Automatic Magneto Bell POST & CO compact COFFIN with Long Pole

·         Western Union porcelain Telegraph and Cable

·         1880 J. R. Holcomb String Phone primitive telephone

·         Porcelain Gray Pay Station Instruction Plate Enameled Iron Co

·         Local and Long Distance Telephone Western Electric name tag

·         Western Electric NE Telephone & Telegraph Long Distance Wall phone

·         American Cable & Radio System via All America Commercial Mackay Radio

·         Primitive Deer Skin ornate 1880s String Telephone

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. extension bells 1890s

·         Rockland Cleansing House TEL 643 Candlestick Telephone attachment

·         American Bell Telephone Co. BLAKE Transmitter on Type 85 fiddleback

·         1880s Charles Williams Battery Bell Telephone Throw Switch Montreal

·         antique telephone oak throw switch

·         1930s candlestick telephone advertising attachment Phone 4-5405

·         Pair of unusual pre-1900 lightening telephone arresters

·         The National Bell Telephone Co Post & Co. Cinn Ohio 1879 Coffin

·         Glass lightening arrestor A E T Co.

·         Western Electric Pay Phone 7A Coin Collector Illinois Bell Telephone

·         C.W. Williams 1877 Generator Box

·         Western Electric Type 105 OAK 4 Party Telephone Subset

·         1879 Western Electric BELGIUM COFFIN marked BLAKE Transmitter

·         1906 BAIRD Equipment Co. Chicago 3 Slot coin collector

·         1921 HUSH-A-PHONE New York Telephone attachment

·         1906 BAIRD Equipment Co. Chicago 3 Slot coin collector

·         1883 Western Electric walnut telephone top box with Long Pole

·         Gray Telephone Co. 23D PayStation w/E1 Handset on wooden backboard

·         Western Electric walnut 294A Fiddleback with Gray Coin Collector

·         Western Electric model 293 wall telephone with Pony Receiver

·         Western Electric 51AL dial candlestick telephone w/2AA dial

·         Western Electric large two box Oak wall telephone  with Cow bells

·         1892 Post & Co. Burlwood Blake 3 Box with Long Pole Receiver

·         Western Electric Type 85A Oak Fiddleback Wall telephone

·         Long Pole Receiver with Hearing Attachmenton oak Blake 3 box phone

·         Bell Telephone advertising with multiple COFFIN telephones

·         Western Electric Grave Marker Top Pay Station used in Phone booths

·         New York & New Jersey Telephone Co OAK Type 98 Fiddleback

·         Western Electric scissors type short candlestick telephone

·         Eugenio Barth CIA Montevideo double box wooden wall telephone

·         Western Electric 50AL with #2 dial mounted on SC subset

·         Western Electric Type 72 Oak Wall Telephone with #5 arm

·         National Bell Telephone Co. POST & CO Cincinnati OHIO 1879

·         Western Electric TYPE 70 2 box telephone #5 Arm 7 Digit transmitter

·         Bates Index The Bates MFG Co. Orange NJ

·         Baird MFG Co. Chicago Coin Collector Porcelain instruction plate

·         Western Electric Master Apartment Telephone switchboard

·         rare 1909 Submarine Signal Co. brass telephone

·         Western Electric Oak Intercom with Graybar Electric 179W receiver

·         1884 Western Electric Candlestick magneto box

·         New England T&T Co. Western Electric POT BELLY walnut subset

·         PubliC Pay Station Local and Long Distance Telephone sign

·         Charles Williams Boston Top Box on 3 box telephone with Long Pole

·         Charles Williams Jr. Telephone and Telegraph BOSTON advertising

·         C. W. Williams 1877 Generator box

·         Western Electric beveled edge 1890s nickel transmitter

·         Group of seven antique telephone instruction card holders

·         Western Electric CHERRY Folding Vanity Telephone

·         Gray Telephone Pay Station Co. large BELL name tag

·         Western Electric donut telephone with marked WE pony receiver

·         Western Electric Walnut 296E 2 line telephone

·         1880 Bell Telephone of Hawaii Stock Certificate framed

·         Western Electric SILVER DOLLAR Oak Telephone Vanity from North Station

·         Western Electric #2 oak ringer box model 271G

·         Southern California Strowger Pacific Bell Telephone 11 Hole phone

·         1898 walnut Western Electric doublebox wall telephone

·         Gray Pay Station #11 coin box for early telephone

·         Western Electric Type 88 compact telephone

·         Western Electric Walnut Subset for Pot Belly candlestick telephone

·         1881 telephone tap bell

·         1897 New England Telephone & Telegraph walnut subset

·         Oak repruction Property of American Bell Telephone BLAKE Transmitter

·         1882 Walnut Davis & Watts Blake 3 Box with Long Pole

·         Western Electric type 295 L walnut telephone subset

·         Western Electric Type 68 walnut telephone with Pony receiver

·         Western Electric OAK 6ft wall telephone with #5 arm 7 Digit Transmitter

·         Unique telephone Intercom push button box with labels

·         Western Electric 20-B nickel candlestick telephone

·         1883 Bell Telephone of Canada 3 Box BLAKE Telephone

·         Western Electric walnut telephone subset

·         Western Electric 50K Gray Pay Phone 2 piece

·         Gray 3 slot Coin Collector Pay Station telephone

·         1893 Western Electric Silver Dollar Pay Station Grave Marker Top

 

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Phone: 9898783308
Sale Location
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Freeland , MI 48623
Sale Dates and Times
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Must register to bid on Proxibid.com. Please contact The Freeland Auction Services LLC for preview or questions.
Listing Details

The Mulvey Antique Telephone Collection

Historical Online Telephone Collection Auction

TheMulveyCollection.com

FreelandAuctionServices.com

Begins Friday February 4, 2022 & Ends Sunday, March 6, 2022

Click Here to REGISTER & BID!

 

Freeland Auction Services has been entrusted to bring to market the Norman “Norm” Mulvey iconic telephone collection.  Norm worked for the Southern New England Telephone company retiring in 1995 and was a devoted member of the Antique Telephone Collectors Association.  His telephone collection was featured in the 1992 book titled “Telephones:  Antique to Modern” and contains several hundred items.  This is the 2nd absolute online auction for the Mulvey Telephone Collection. 

Mr. Mulvey was a collector's collector, specializing in all sorts of antique telephones with a concentration on Western Electric rare telephones; unique National Bell items; scarce Charles Williams phones; and museum quality “Coffin” telephones from the late 1870s. He had amassed a wonderful collection that we will be bringing to you on Proxibid.com with several featured absolute online auctions.  He consistently restored his phones perfectly, sometimes searching for years for the correct part to complete a phone. 

This collection has some of the most sought after items that he personally picked thru the years and enjoyed the ownership of for a long time. Now is your chance to own these rare pieces and add them to your collection. Every item described to a 'T" with dozens of photos so there will be no doubt that you will have value in the years to come.  You now have the opportunity to add one or more of his rare vanities, candlesticks, 6 foot tandems, unique telephone attachments, desk telephones, coin collectors, or coffins to your collection. 

Have a field day and revel in some of the most treasured items in the telephony field brought to you by Freeland Auction Services, a “Premier Auction House” connecting collectors with collections!  Good Luck in your bidding, check back often, and feel confident that you will have a great piece of history.  So, please bid confidently, and enjoy this liquidation of a wonderful ATCA member’s collection.  Shipping is available, as well as local pickup in Freeland, MI. Have fun and please contact Barry with Freeland Auction Services if you have any questions!

Mulvey Auction #2 brief listings below

·         1890 American Bell Telephone Blake Box Candlestick w/Black Box

·         Bell Telephone Laboratories Historical Model Receiver REED

·         1892 Richards Set Test Board Headset telephone part ONLY 1,000 made!

·         Western Electric Bell Telephone ONE RED BAND Long Pole BELGIUM

·         Western Electric PONY Terminal Top telephone receiver

·         1880s round wooden string telephone part

·         Western Electric speckled watchcase telephone receiver

·         1880s pair of Black String Phones with cord

·         Central Scientific Co. Chicago 1914 Brass Barameter

·         Western Electric Nickel Candlestick Telephone w/7 Digit faceplate

·         Western Electric Telephone pony receiver

·         Property of American Bell Telephone Induction Coil

·         Unknown early 1880s Wooden terminal top telephone receiver

·         Unusual telephone attachment base "WHILE TELEPHONING" Radioff

·         1877-78 Bell Telephone #636 COFFIN with wood receiver

·         unusual TOLLOMETER antique telephone attachment timer

·         Western Electric Telephone OAK Subset pat 1906

·         Western Electric wall telephone Switchboard 13" by 19"

·         1880-1892 American Bell Telephone WE Potbelly transmitter back cup

·         Western Electric Telephone PONY terminal top receiver

 

·         1880 Guiland Telephone extension bells

·         1880 Sold by Southern New England Telephone Co watchcase receiver

·         1881 Western Electric EMPTY Coffin Telephone HARD TO FIND

·         1880 Southern New England Telephone Co. version of COFFIN w/2 long poles

·         Charles Williams BOSTON Telephone extension bells stamped 2701

·         1878 Coffin American Bell Telephone Co. with pushbutton & Long Pole

·         Western Electric wall mounted Type 284 A ringer box

·         Pair of Speckled colored Western Electric Watchcase Telephone receivers

·         The American Bell Telephone Co. Long Distance Candlestick Telephone

·         Early 1880s Western Electric Telephone walnut top box

·         unusual early Western Electric Telephone walnut extension bell box

·         Guilland Telephone extension bell box

·         Early Western Electric telephone extension bell box

·         Western Electric COFFIN Telephone ORIGINAL missing switchook

·         Western Electric telephone early extension bell box

·         Western Electric telephone LONG POLE with Red receiver cap

·         Western Electric Oak telephone with Early Cast Iron Coin box apparatus

·         Western Electric walnut telephone fiddleback with BAIRD Pay Station

·         Western Electric American Bell Telephone Walnut magneto with Long Pole

·         Western Electric walnut BLAKE transmitter wall telephone

·         Western Electric 12 button metal wall hotel telephone

·         Western Electric Oak model 293 wall Phone with Gray Coin Collector

·         Western Electric 374A 12 station switchboard intercom telephone

·         1902 Western Electric type 283A oak wall apartment telephone

·         Western Electric 1897 walnut Type 101 telephone subset

·         Western Electric model 202 desk telephone with unusual timer box

·         Western Electric walnut Type 85 fiddleback telephone with Pony receiver

·         Western Electric walnut fiddleback telephone

·         Bell Telephone COFFIN stamped 792 original with 2 wooden receivers

·         Western Electric #10 candlestick telephone with Long Pole receiver

·         1903 Western Electric walnut Type 293 A apartment style telephone

·         Western Electric metal 333B wall telephone

·         Property of New England Telephone & Telegraph WE Walnut Type 85 telephone

·         Western Electric Type 296A walnut apartment style wall telephone

·         FOUR 1930s Advertising calendars with Early Telephone numbers

·         Western Electric Telephone Intercom with watchcase receiver

·         Western Electric oak telephone subset type 318A

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. Switchboard

·         Western Electric Type 24J walnut extension bell box

·         Gray Telephone Pay Station Call Central Office instruction card

·         Three unusual TWIN FONE 1930s/40s duel listening telephone devices

·         Western Union porcelain telephone call box

·         Illinois Bell Telephone Co. instruction card holder

·         Postal Telegraph Commercial Cables porcelain call box

·         1880s Telegraph Rosewood "The G.F.P. Tel Co. NY" Meters

·         Early Canadian Charles Williams JR walnut extension bell box

·         Gray Telephone Silver Dollar Pay Station Co. Porcelain Instruction Plate

·         Gray Telephone Pay Station "Call Central Office" instruction plate

·         Automatic Magneto Bell POST & CO compact COFFIN with Long Pole

·         Western Union porcelain Telegraph and Cable

·         1880 J. R. Holcomb String Phone primitive telephone

·         Porcelain Gray Pay Station Instruction Plate Enameled Iron Co

·         Local and Long Distance Telephone Western Electric name tag

·         Western Electric NE Telephone & Telegraph Long Distance Wall phone

·         American Cable & Radio System via All America Commercial Mackay Radio

·         Primitive Deer Skin ornate 1880s String Telephone

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. extension bells 1890s

·         Rockland Cleansing House TEL 643 Candlestick Telephone attachment

·         American Bell Telephone Co. BLAKE Transmitter on Type 85 fiddleback

·         1880s Charles Williams Battery Bell Telephone Throw Switch Montreal

·         antique telephone oak throw switch

·         1930s candlestick telephone advertising attachment Phone 4-5405

·         Pair of unusual pre-1900 lightening telephone arresters

·         The National Bell Telephone Co Post & Co. Cinn Ohio 1879 Coffin

·         Glass lightening arrestor A E T Co.

·         Western Electric Pay Phone 7A Coin Collector Illinois Bell Telephone

·         C.W. Williams 1877 Generator Box

·         Western Electric Type 105 OAK 4 Party Telephone Subset

·         1879 Western Electric BELGIUM COFFIN marked BLAKE Transmitter

·         1906 BAIRD Equipment Co. Chicago 3 Slot coin collector

·         1921 HUSH-A-PHONE New York Telephone attachment

·         1906 BAIRD Equipment Co. Chicago 3 Slot coin collector

·         1883 Western Electric walnut telephone top box with Long Pole

·         Gray Telephone Co. 23D PayStation w/E1 Handset on wooden backboard

·         Western Electric walnut 294A Fiddleback with Gray Coin Collector

·         Western Electric model 293 wall telephone with Pony Receiver

·         Western Electric 51AL dial candlestick telephone w/2AA dial

·         Western Electric large two box Oak wall telephone  with Cow bells

·         1892 Post & Co. Burlwood Blake 3 Box with Long Pole Receiver

·         Western Electric Type 85A Oak Fiddleback Wall telephone

·         Long Pole Receiver with Hearing Attachmenton oak Blake 3 box phone

·         Bell Telephone advertising with multiple COFFIN telephones

·         Western Electric Grave Marker Top Pay Station used in Phone booths

·         New York & New Jersey Telephone Co OAK Type 98 Fiddleback

·         Western Electric scissors type short candlestick telephone

·         Eugenio Barth CIA Montevideo double box wooden wall telephone

·         Western Electric 50AL with #2 dial mounted on SC subset

·         Western Electric Type 72 Oak Wall Telephone with #5 arm

·         National Bell Telephone Co. POST & CO Cincinnati OHIO 1879

·         Western Electric TYPE 70 2 box telephone #5 Arm 7 Digit transmitter

·         Bates Index The Bates MFG Co. Orange NJ

·         Baird MFG Co. Chicago Coin Collector Porcelain instruction plate

·         Western Electric Master Apartment Telephone switchboard

·         rare 1909 Submarine Signal Co. brass telephone

·         Western Electric Oak Intercom with Graybar Electric 179W receiver

·         1884 Western Electric Candlestick magneto box

·         New England T&T Co. Western Electric POT BELLY walnut subset

·         PubliC Pay Station Local and Long Distance Telephone sign

·         Charles Williams Boston Top Box on 3 box telephone with Long Pole

·         Charles Williams Jr. Telephone and Telegraph BOSTON advertising

·         C. W. Williams 1877 Generator box

·         Western Electric beveled edge 1890s nickel transmitter

·         Group of seven antique telephone instruction card holders

·         Western Electric CHERRY Folding Vanity Telephone

·         Gray Telephone Pay Station Co. large BELL name tag

·         Western Electric donut telephone with marked WE pony receiver

·         Western Electric Walnut 296E 2 line telephone

·         1880 Bell Telephone of Hawaii Stock Certificate framed

·         Western Electric SILVER DOLLAR Oak Telephone Vanity from North Station

·         Western Electric #2 oak ringer box model 271G

·         Southern California Strowger Pacific Bell Telephone 11 Hole phone

·         1898 walnut Western Electric doublebox wall telephone

·         Gray Pay Station #11 coin box for early telephone

·         Western Electric Type 88 compact telephone

·         Western Electric Walnut Subset for Pot Belly candlestick telephone

·         1881 telephone tap bell

·         1897 New England Telephone & Telegraph walnut subset

·         Oak repruction Property of American Bell Telephone BLAKE Transmitter

·         1882 Walnut Davis & Watts Blake 3 Box with Long Pole

·         Western Electric type 295 L walnut telephone subset

·         Western Electric Type 68 walnut telephone with Pony receiver

·         Western Electric OAK 6ft wall telephone with #5 arm 7 Digit Transmitter

·         Unique telephone Intercom push button box with labels

·         Western Electric 20-B nickel candlestick telephone

·         1883 Bell Telephone of Canada 3 Box BLAKE Telephone

·         Western Electric walnut telephone subset

·         Western Electric 50K Gray Pay Phone 2 piece

·         Gray 3 slot Coin Collector Pay Station telephone

·         1893 Western Electric Silver Dollar Pay Station Grave Marker Top

 

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Bidding Starts: Saturday Feb 5 , 11:00 PM
Bidding Ends: Sunday Mar 6 , 5:00 PM
Auction Location

Freeland , MI 48623
Company
Freeland Auction Services, LLC

Contact: Barry Huckeby
Phone: 9898783308
Website: freelandauctionservices.com

Listing Terms and Conditions
Must register to bid on Proxibid.com. Please contact The Freeland Auction Services LLC for preview or questions.

The Mulvey Antique Telephone Collection

Historical Online Telephone Collection Auction

TheMulveyCollection.com

FreelandAuctionServices.com

Begins Friday February 4, 2022 & Ends Sunday, March 6, 2022

Click Here to REGISTER & BID!

 

Freeland Auction Services has been entrusted to bring to market the Norman “Norm” Mulvey iconic telephone collection.  Norm worked for the Southern New England Telephone company retiring in 1995 and was a devoted member of the Antique Telephone Collectors Association.  His telephone collection was featured in the 1992 book titled “Telephones:  Antique to Modern” and contains several hundred items.  This is the 2nd absolute online auction for the Mulvey Telephone Collection. 

Mr. Mulvey was a collector's collector, specializing in all sorts of antique telephones with a concentration on Western Electric rare telephones; unique National Bell items; scarce Charles Williams phones; and museum quality “Coffin” telephones from the late 1870s. He had amassed a wonderful collection that we will be bringing to you on Proxibid.com with several featured absolute online auctions.  He consistently restored his phones perfectly, sometimes searching for years for the correct part to complete a phone. 

This collection has some of the most sought after items that he personally picked thru the years and enjoyed the ownership of for a long time. Now is your chance to own these rare pieces and add them to your collection. Every item described to a 'T" with dozens of photos so there will be no doubt that you will have value in the years to come.  You now have the opportunity to add one or more of his rare vanities, candlesticks, 6 foot tandems, unique telephone attachments, desk telephones, coin collectors, or coffins to your collection. 

Have a field day and revel in some of the most treasured items in the telephony field brought to you by Freeland Auction Services, a “Premier Auction House” connecting collectors with collections!  Good Luck in your bidding, check back often, and feel confident that you will have a great piece of history.  So, please bid confidently, and enjoy this liquidation of a wonderful ATCA member’s collection.  Shipping is available, as well as local pickup in Freeland, MI. Have fun and please contact Barry with Freeland Auction Services if you have any questions!

Mulvey Auction #2 brief listings below

·         1890 American Bell Telephone Blake Box Candlestick w/Black Box

·         Bell Telephone Laboratories Historical Model Receiver REED

·         1892 Richards Set Test Board Headset telephone part ONLY 1,000 made!

·         Western Electric Bell Telephone ONE RED BAND Long Pole BELGIUM

·         Western Electric PONY Terminal Top telephone receiver

·         1880s round wooden string telephone part

·         Western Electric speckled watchcase telephone receiver

·         1880s pair of Black String Phones with cord

·         Central Scientific Co. Chicago 1914 Brass Barameter

·         Western Electric Nickel Candlestick Telephone w/7 Digit faceplate

·         Western Electric Telephone pony receiver

·         Property of American Bell Telephone Induction Coil

·         Unknown early 1880s Wooden terminal top telephone receiver

·         Unusual telephone attachment base "WHILE TELEPHONING" Radioff

·         1877-78 Bell Telephone #636 COFFIN with wood receiver

·         unusual TOLLOMETER antique telephone attachment timer

·         Western Electric Telephone OAK Subset pat 1906

·         Western Electric wall telephone Switchboard 13" by 19"

·         1880-1892 American Bell Telephone WE Potbelly transmitter back cup

·         Western Electric Telephone PONY terminal top receiver

 

·         1880 Guiland Telephone extension bells

·         1880 Sold by Southern New England Telephone Co watchcase receiver

·         1881 Western Electric EMPTY Coffin Telephone HARD TO FIND

·         1880 Southern New England Telephone Co. version of COFFIN w/2 long poles

·         Charles Williams BOSTON Telephone extension bells stamped 2701

·         1878 Coffin American Bell Telephone Co. with pushbutton & Long Pole

·         Western Electric wall mounted Type 284 A ringer box

·         Pair of Speckled colored Western Electric Watchcase Telephone receivers

·         The American Bell Telephone Co. Long Distance Candlestick Telephone

·         Early 1880s Western Electric Telephone walnut top box

·         unusual early Western Electric Telephone walnut extension bell box

·         Guilland Telephone extension bell box

·         Early Western Electric telephone extension bell box

·         Western Electric COFFIN Telephone ORIGINAL missing switchook

·         Western Electric telephone early extension bell box

·         Western Electric telephone LONG POLE with Red receiver cap

·         Western Electric Oak telephone with Early Cast Iron Coin box apparatus

·         Western Electric walnut telephone fiddleback with BAIRD Pay Station

·         Western Electric American Bell Telephone Walnut magneto with Long Pole

·         Western Electric walnut BLAKE transmitter wall telephone

·         Western Electric 12 button metal wall hotel telephone

·         Western Electric Oak model 293 wall Phone with Gray Coin Collector

·         Western Electric 374A 12 station switchboard intercom telephone

·         1902 Western Electric type 283A oak wall apartment telephone

·         Western Electric 1897 walnut Type 101 telephone subset

·         Western Electric model 202 desk telephone with unusual timer box

·         Western Electric walnut Type 85 fiddleback telephone with Pony receiver

·         Western Electric walnut fiddleback telephone

·         Bell Telephone COFFIN stamped 792 original with 2 wooden receivers

·         Western Electric #10 candlestick telephone with Long Pole receiver

·         1903 Western Electric walnut Type 293 A apartment style telephone

·         Western Electric metal 333B wall telephone

·         Property of New England Telephone & Telegraph WE Walnut Type 85 telephone

·         Western Electric Type 296A walnut apartment style wall telephone

·         FOUR 1930s Advertising calendars with Early Telephone numbers

·         Western Electric Telephone Intercom with watchcase receiver

·         Western Electric oak telephone subset type 318A

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. Switchboard

·         Western Electric Type 24J walnut extension bell box

·         Gray Telephone Pay Station Call Central Office instruction card

·         Three unusual TWIN FONE 1930s/40s duel listening telephone devices

·         Western Union porcelain telephone call box

·         Illinois Bell Telephone Co. instruction card holder

·         Postal Telegraph Commercial Cables porcelain call box

·         1880s Telegraph Rosewood "The G.F.P. Tel Co. NY" Meters

·         Early Canadian Charles Williams JR walnut extension bell box

·         Gray Telephone Silver Dollar Pay Station Co. Porcelain Instruction Plate

·         Gray Telephone Pay Station "Call Central Office" instruction plate

·         Automatic Magneto Bell POST & CO compact COFFIN with Long Pole

·         Western Union porcelain Telegraph and Cable

·         1880 J. R. Holcomb String Phone primitive telephone

·         Porcelain Gray Pay Station Instruction Plate Enameled Iron Co

·         Local and Long Distance Telephone Western Electric name tag

·         Western Electric NE Telephone & Telegraph Long Distance Wall phone

·         American Cable & Radio System via All America Commercial Mackay Radio

·         Primitive Deer Skin ornate 1880s String Telephone

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. extension bells 1890s

·         Rockland Cleansing House TEL 643 Candlestick Telephone attachment

·         American Bell Telephone Co. BLAKE Transmitter on Type 85 fiddleback

·         1880s Charles Williams Battery Bell Telephone Throw Switch Montreal

·         antique telephone oak throw switch

·         1930s candlestick telephone advertising attachment Phone 4-5405

·         Pair of unusual pre-1900 lightening telephone arresters

·         The National Bell Telephone Co Post & Co. Cinn Ohio 1879 Coffin

·         Glass lightening arrestor A E T Co.

·         Western Electric Pay Phone 7A Coin Collector Illinois Bell Telephone

·         C.W. Williams 1877 Generator Box

·         Western Electric Type 105 OAK 4 Party Telephone Subset

·         1879 Western Electric BELGIUM COFFIN marked BLAKE Transmitter

·         1906 BAIRD Equipment Co. Chicago 3 Slot coin collector

·         1921 HUSH-A-PHONE New York Telephone attachment

·         1906 BAIRD Equipment Co. Chicago 3 Slot coin collector

·         1883 Western Electric walnut telephone top box with Long Pole

·         Gray Telephone Co. 23D PayStation w/E1 Handset on wooden backboard

·         Western Electric walnut 294A Fiddleback with Gray Coin Collector

·         Western Electric model 293 wall telephone with Pony Receiver

·         Western Electric 51AL dial candlestick telephone w/2AA dial

·         Western Electric large two box Oak wall telephone  with Cow bells

·         1892 Post & Co. Burlwood Blake 3 Box with Long Pole Receiver

·         Western Electric Type 85A Oak Fiddleback Wall telephone

·         Long Pole Receiver with Hearing Attachmenton oak Blake 3 box phone

·         Bell Telephone advertising with multiple COFFIN telephones

·         Western Electric Grave Marker Top Pay Station used in Phone booths

·         New York & New Jersey Telephone Co OAK Type 98 Fiddleback

·         Western Electric scissors type short candlestick telephone

·         Eugenio Barth CIA Montevideo double box wooden wall telephone

·         Western Electric 50AL with #2 dial mounted on SC subset

·         Western Electric Type 72 Oak Wall Telephone with #5 arm

·         National Bell Telephone Co. POST & CO Cincinnati OHIO 1879

·         Western Electric TYPE 70 2 box telephone #5 Arm 7 Digit transmitter

·         Bates Index The Bates MFG Co. Orange NJ

·         Baird MFG Co. Chicago Coin Collector Porcelain instruction plate

·         Western Electric Master Apartment Telephone switchboard

·         rare 1909 Submarine Signal Co. brass telephone

·         Western Electric Oak Intercom with Graybar Electric 179W receiver

·         1884 Western Electric Candlestick magneto box

·         New England T&T Co. Western Electric POT BELLY walnut subset

·         PubliC Pay Station Local and Long Distance Telephone sign

·         Charles Williams Boston Top Box on 3 box telephone with Long Pole

·         Charles Williams Jr. Telephone and Telegraph BOSTON advertising

·         C. W. Williams 1877 Generator box

·         Western Electric beveled edge 1890s nickel transmitter

·         Group of seven antique telephone instruction card holders

·         Western Electric CHERRY Folding Vanity Telephone

·         Gray Telephone Pay Station Co. large BELL name tag

·         Western Electric donut telephone with marked WE pony receiver

·         Western Electric Walnut 296E 2 line telephone

·         1880 Bell Telephone of Hawaii Stock Certificate framed

·         Western Electric SILVER DOLLAR Oak Telephone Vanity from North Station

·         Western Electric #2 oak ringer box model 271G

·         Southern California Strowger Pacific Bell Telephone 11 Hole phone

·         1898 walnut Western Electric doublebox wall telephone

·         Gray Pay Station #11 coin box for early telephone

·         Western Electric Type 88 compact telephone

·         Western Electric Walnut Subset for Pot Belly candlestick telephone

·         1881 telephone tap bell

·         1897 New England Telephone & Telegraph walnut subset

·         Oak repruction Property of American Bell Telephone BLAKE Transmitter

·         1882 Walnut Davis & Watts Blake 3 Box with Long Pole

·         Western Electric type 295 L walnut telephone subset

·         Western Electric Type 68 walnut telephone with Pony receiver

·         Western Electric OAK 6ft wall telephone with #5 arm 7 Digit Transmitter

·         Unique telephone Intercom push button box with labels

·         Western Electric 20-B nickel candlestick telephone

·         1883 Bell Telephone of Canada 3 Box BLAKE Telephone

·         Western Electric walnut telephone subset

·         Western Electric 50K Gray Pay Phone 2 piece

·         Gray 3 slot Coin Collector Pay Station telephone

·         1893 Western Electric Silver Dollar Pay Station Grave Marker Top