The Norm Mulvey Antique Telephone Collection MUSEUM QUALITY Online Auction ICONIC HISTORICAL Items!
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Freeland, MI 48623
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Bidding Starts: Wednesday Dec 28, 9:00 AM
Bidding Ends: Sunday Jan 1, 6:00 PM
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Freeland Auction Services, LLC

Contact: Barry Huckeby
Phone: 9898783308
Email: FreelandAuctioneer@gmail.com
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The Mulvey Antique Telephone Collection

Historical Online Telephone Collection Auction

TheMulveyCollection.com

FreelandAuctionServices.com

Click Here to Register & Bid On Proxibid.com

Begins Sunday, December 4th, 2022 & Ends Sunday, January 1st , 2023

 

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 4th 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; 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, Blake 3 box telephones, 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 #4 brief listings below

·         1891 Walnut Western Electric 2 Box American Bell Wall Telephone

·         Union Telephone Co. HOME TELEPHONE Co. of Palo $25 reward sign

·         Western Electric Walnut Fiddleback w A.B.T. Co. Nickel transmitter

·         1900 Western Electric TYPE 98 S fiddleback telephone

·         1893 The Colorado Telephone Co. Capital Stock Share framed

·         Western Electric OAK 273F Candlestick Telephone Ringer Box

·         Western Electric small metal intercom telephone

·         2 piece Gray Pay Station 3 Slot Coin "TEMPORARILY OUT OF SERVICE" tag

·         1894 Western Electric 3 Jug Walnut Telephone MUSEUM QUALITY

·         The BLISS Individual Signal made for American Bell Telephone Co. UNDER BLAKES Pat's

·         1894 Western Electric walnut subset extension telephone bell box

·         American Bell Telephone New England T&T walnut 3 Box BLAKE telephone

·         1880s wood telephone terminal top receiver

·         early 1890s Long Pole telephone receiver EXCELLENT Condition

·         rare telephone nickel transmitter with unusual brown mouthpiece

·         Western Electric 301E walnut fiddleback telephone w/#11 Coin Collector

·         Black wooden telephone terminal top receiver stamped "A POTVIN"

·         Western Electric OAK single box telephone with GRAY COIN COLLECTOR

·         Western Electric Walnut TYPE 2 Two Box Wall Telephone

·         Western Electric OAK TYPE 72 unusual telephone top box

·         Studebaker Machine Co. Desk Telephone advertising attachment

·         1884 walnut Western Electric magneto ringer box with crank

·         walnut Bell Telephone wooden terminal top reproduction receiver

·         American Bell Telephone terminal top PONY transitional receiver

·         rare The Miniature Telephone Booth Co. NEW YORK 1908 Oak booth

·         Beveled edge nickel over brass telephone transmitter

·         1880 POST & CO. Coffin telephone switchhook

·         original 1880s Bell Telephone wooden terminal top receiver Model #2

·         Western Electric New England T & T WALNUT 2 Box Telephone

·         1884 Bell Telephone Buffalo NY rental receipts COFFIN on front

·         1889 Viaduct Telephone Co. wooden receiver

·         Western Electric unusual OAK Warehouse Telephone

·         4 Pin early telephone receiver cloth cord

·         "Positive" Telephone Reminder attachment in original package

·         early 1880s wooden terminal top telephone receiver

·         Western Electric black 533 telephone with backboard & battery box

·         Eastern No 2 Dry Cell for all open circuit work by Eastern Carbon Works

·         unmarked 1878-1879 Bell Telephone wooden receiver

·         Northern Electric Extension Bells Montreal Red Ringer box

·         Western Electric Walnut Tandem Telephone with 7 Digit transmitter

·         New England Telehone & Telegraph 10 line type 271G ringer box

·         Long Pole telephone receiver

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph Type 111B two box telephone

·         Western Electric #70 watchcase telephone receiver

·         The GERSON System blake style telephone transmitter unit

·         Western Electric OAK Folding Vanity w/Long Pole receiver

·         Western Electric 297G Oak 2 party telephone subset

·         Victorian era unique "HIDE A PHONE" art deco décor

·         1880s wooden BELL telephone receiver stamped on side

·         1880s Telephone & Telegraph Construction Detroit 3 box phone

·         1892 ELSON improved wooden receiver

·         Time-O-Call telephone call timer Mid-Century 1950s

·         Western Electric walnut Type 40 extension bell box

·         Graybar INTER-PHONE model 383 J wall hanging handset phone

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph OAK wall Telephone

·         1879 Charles Williams wooden terminal top telephone receiver

·         Illinois Bell Telephone Company Directory For Chicago

·         1879/1880 stamped American Bell Telephone 2 box telephone

·         Bell System New York Telephone Company BLUE BELL PAPERWEIGHT

·         Dan Mac SLUG Deflector For PayStations for installation on PayPhones

·         Late 1890s Western Electric walnut Type 312A Fiddleback Telephone

·         Pair of Bell System Telephone Cobalt Blue Bell Paperweights

·         Gray Telephone Pay Station 3 Slot portable Coin Collector

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph 3 BOX w/Canadian BLAKE Transmitter

·         1880s Charles Williams Jr walnut Annunciator 100 Court St BOSTON

·         Local & Long Distance Telephone Cobalt Blue Bell System Paperweight

·         1879 Charles Williams Jr. wooden terminal top telephone receiver

·         Western Electric Oak model 283 w/Battery Box & PONY Receiver

·         American Bell Telephone Edison Carbon BLAKE Transmitter reproduction

·         1879 magneto transmitter telephone part unknown maker

·         Early 1920s PHONOMETER fancy timer made by C. H. Grave Co

·         1888 Western Electric walnut Type 21 Wall Telephone w/attachments

·         Gray 3 Slot TWO PIECE Payphone Telephone 2A coin box

·         Pair of Western Electric 3" telephone dials #2AB & #2AE

·         1884 American Bell Telephone BLAKE 3 Box with #2 stamped top box

·         Western Electric extension bell box original POST & CO. ringer

·         Western Electric C1 1930s Space Saver wall telephone

·         Western Electric telephone sounder

·         Western Electric mutli-line 1920s telephone model 1324C12

·         1879 BELGIUM Coffin Telephone with PONY CROWN Receiver

·         Western Electric 1893 walnut Type 21 top box

·         New England Tel & Telegraph walnut 2 Box Telephone 1893

·         1880 Charles Williams wooden telephone receiver

·         Western Electric watchcase telephone receiver

·         Western Electric 1889 48" LARGE walnut wall telephone

·         Group of 5 Cobalt blue Bell System Bell Telephone paperweights

·         Three cast iron GRAY PayStation coin drawers

·         1880s Western Electric BLAKE box 3 Jug walnut wall telephone

·         Western Electric 1911 Candlestick telephone with LADY Hide A Phone

·         GLOBE Phone Mfg Co. unique piece of telephony history

·         Missouri & Kansas Telephone Company BLUE Cobalt Bell Paperweight

·         Unrestored 1884 American Bell Telephone Co. walnut wall telephone

·         1892 American Bell Telephone TOLL TEST Head Set VERY RARE!

·         Southern New England Telephone Co. August 1950 directory & two others

·         unusual OAK early telephone plug board

·         early Telephone wood mouthpiece for 3 box telephone with screen

·         Western Electric transitional Pony Terminal top telephone receiver

·         Western Electric Type 85 walnut fiddleback telephone

·         New England Tel & Telegraph OAK Type 217F  10 line box

·         Western Electric OAK Telephone Vanity w/A.B.T Transmitter & Long Pole receiver

·         Chicago Telephone Company RULES dated 1887

·         Baird Telephone Coin Collector for parts

·         Pair of station boards GrayBar InterPhone

·         Group of Telephone attachment BOXES ONLY

·         1891 Western Electric 2 box walnut telephone with excellent parts

·         Early PayStation 1 arm bandit coin collector

·         32" fancy 4 pin cloth telephone receiver cord

·         Western Electric C1 non dial space saver telephone with NO GROOVE E1 handset

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph walnut 301A fiddleback telephone

·         Western Electric Bell System KS-7118 unusual Telephone receiver part

·         unusual DETROIT Extension Bell Telephone ringer box

·         Early telephone Long Pole terminal top receiver

·         Western Electric OAK 294A Fiddleback wall telephone

·         American Bell Telephone BLAKE TRANSMITTER Edison Carbon Reproduction

·         Western Electric Telephone & Telegraph Apparatus Cobalt Blue Bell Paperweight

·         rare New England Telephone & Telegraph "Why Not Telephone & Find Out"

·         Western Electric Oak unusual Intercom 12 button with 1 bell on top

·         Old Telephones Scrapbook Volumes I, II, and III from the Smithsonian

·         Bell System Telephone & Telegraph Company Local & Long distance Paperweight

·         Long Pole telephone receiver

·         Western Electric 1894 Two-Box walnut telephone

·         Speed-A-Call antique telephone directory attachment

·         Western Electric INTER-PHONE metal wall telephone

·         Pair of Western Electric model 211 Spacesaver Telephones

·         Western Electric 50" Oak SUNBURST Tandem MUSEUM QUALITY TELEPHONE!

·         Gray Pay Station payphone coin collector telephone

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph LARGE BELL Extension bell box

·         Handi-Pad desk telephone attachment in original box

·         Saltillo Telephone Company PA $25 reward framed

·         Western Electric Type 271G 10 line telephone bell box

·         Magna-Dialer telephone desk phone attachment

·         Large group of telephone attachment advertising boxes only

·         Late 1880s Western Electric walnut Blake telephone

·         Western Electric Co. telephone extension bell ringer box

·         1894 Western Electric OAK Type 68 unusual compact wall telephone

·         The Southern New England Telephone Company Phone Booth Directory

·         1880s Western Electric 2 Box Walnut Telephone w/7 Digit Transmitter

·         Argonne AR 20 Telephone Pickup recording device

·         Western Electric OAK Type 44 1893 top box

·         Primitive early 1880s Oak telephone table top candlestick ringer box

·         Western Electric OAK Vanity Switchboard VERY RARE!

·         The Telephone Patent Book 1876-1920 Reference Guide

·         The Southwestern Bell Telephone Company COBALT Blue Bell Paperweight

·         Wooden Terminal Top telephone receiver

·         Western Electric OAK Wall Telephone with Gray Coin Collector

·         1880s Western Electric unusual TALL extension bell box

·         New York Telephone Co. "Open The Future" advertising item

·         1880s American Bell Telephone early COFFIN magneto box

·         WH Dunhain FERROTYPES FOR TELEPHONE in original box

·         Western Electric OAK 6 Ft Tandem on the Stilts MUSEUM Quality

 

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The Mulvey Antique Telephone Collection

Historical Online Telephone Collection Auction

TheMulveyCollection.com

FreelandAuctionServices.com

Click Here to Register & Bid On Proxibid.com

Begins Sunday, December 4th, 2022 & Ends Sunday, January 1st , 2023

 

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 4th 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; 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, Blake 3 box telephones, 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 #4 brief listings below

·         1891 Walnut Western Electric 2 Box American Bell Wall Telephone

·         Union Telephone Co. HOME TELEPHONE Co. of Palo $25 reward sign

·         Western Electric Walnut Fiddleback w A.B.T. Co. Nickel transmitter

·         1900 Western Electric TYPE 98 S fiddleback telephone

·         1893 The Colorado Telephone Co. Capital Stock Share framed

·         Western Electric OAK 273F Candlestick Telephone Ringer Box

·         Western Electric small metal intercom telephone

·         2 piece Gray Pay Station 3 Slot Coin "TEMPORARILY OUT OF SERVICE" tag

·         1894 Western Electric 3 Jug Walnut Telephone MUSEUM QUALITY

·         The BLISS Individual Signal made for American Bell Telephone Co. UNDER BLAKES Pat's

·         1894 Western Electric walnut subset extension telephone bell box

·         American Bell Telephone New England T&T walnut 3 Box BLAKE telephone

·         1880s wood telephone terminal top receiver

·         early 1890s Long Pole telephone receiver EXCELLENT Condition

·         rare telephone nickel transmitter with unusual brown mouthpiece

·         Western Electric 301E walnut fiddleback telephone w/#11 Coin Collector

·         Black wooden telephone terminal top receiver stamped "A POTVIN"

·         Western Electric OAK single box telephone with GRAY COIN COLLECTOR

·         Western Electric Walnut TYPE 2 Two Box Wall Telephone

·         Western Electric OAK TYPE 72 unusual telephone top box

·         Studebaker Machine Co. Desk Telephone advertising attachment

·         1884 walnut Western Electric magneto ringer box with crank

·         walnut Bell Telephone wooden terminal top reproduction receiver

·         American Bell Telephone terminal top PONY transitional receiver

·         rare The Miniature Telephone Booth Co. NEW YORK 1908 Oak booth

·         Beveled edge nickel over brass telephone transmitter

·         1880 POST & CO. Coffin telephone switchhook

·         original 1880s Bell Telephone wooden terminal top receiver Model #2

·         Western Electric New England T & T WALNUT 2 Box Telephone

·         1884 Bell Telephone Buffalo NY rental receipts COFFIN on front

·         1889 Viaduct Telephone Co. wooden receiver

·         Western Electric unusual OAK Warehouse Telephone

·         4 Pin early telephone receiver cloth cord

·         "Positive" Telephone Reminder attachment in original package

·         early 1880s wooden terminal top telephone receiver

·         Western Electric black 533 telephone with backboard & battery box

·         Eastern No 2 Dry Cell for all open circuit work by Eastern Carbon Works

·         unmarked 1878-1879 Bell Telephone wooden receiver

·         Northern Electric Extension Bells Montreal Red Ringer box

·         Western Electric Walnut Tandem Telephone with 7 Digit transmitter

·         New England Telehone & Telegraph 10 line type 271G ringer box

·         Long Pole telephone receiver

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph Type 111B two box telephone

·         Western Electric #70 watchcase telephone receiver

·         The GERSON System blake style telephone transmitter unit

·         Western Electric OAK Folding Vanity w/Long Pole receiver

·         Western Electric 297G Oak 2 party telephone subset

·         Victorian era unique "HIDE A PHONE" art deco décor

·         1880s wooden BELL telephone receiver stamped on side

·         1880s Telephone & Telegraph Construction Detroit 3 box phone

·         1892 ELSON improved wooden receiver

·         Time-O-Call telephone call timer Mid-Century 1950s

·         Western Electric walnut Type 40 extension bell box

·         Graybar INTER-PHONE model 383 J wall hanging handset phone

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph OAK wall Telephone

·         1879 Charles Williams wooden terminal top telephone receiver

·         Illinois Bell Telephone Company Directory For Chicago

·         1879/1880 stamped American Bell Telephone 2 box telephone

·         Bell System New York Telephone Company BLUE BELL PAPERWEIGHT

·         Dan Mac SLUG Deflector For PayStations for installation on PayPhones

·         Late 1890s Western Electric walnut Type 312A Fiddleback Telephone

·         Pair of Bell System Telephone Cobalt Blue Bell Paperweights

·         Gray Telephone Pay Station 3 Slot portable Coin Collector

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph 3 BOX w/Canadian BLAKE Transmitter

·         1880s Charles Williams Jr walnut Annunciator 100 Court St BOSTON

·         Local & Long Distance Telephone Cobalt Blue Bell System Paperweight

·         1879 Charles Williams Jr. wooden terminal top telephone receiver

·         Western Electric Oak model 283 w/Battery Box & PONY Receiver

·         American Bell Telephone Edison Carbon BLAKE Transmitter reproduction

·         1879 magneto transmitter telephone part unknown maker

·         Early 1920s PHONOMETER fancy timer made by C. H. Grave Co

·         1888 Western Electric walnut Type 21 Wall Telephone w/attachments

·         Gray 3 Slot TWO PIECE Payphone Telephone 2A coin box

·         Pair of Western Electric 3" telephone dials #2AB & #2AE

·         1884 American Bell Telephone BLAKE 3 Box with #2 stamped top box

·         Western Electric extension bell box original POST & CO. ringer

·         Western Electric C1 1930s Space Saver wall telephone

·         Western Electric telephone sounder

·         Western Electric mutli-line 1920s telephone model 1324C12

·         1879 BELGIUM Coffin Telephone with PONY CROWN Receiver

·         Western Electric 1893 walnut Type 21 top box

·         New England Tel & Telegraph walnut 2 Box Telephone 1893

·         1880 Charles Williams wooden telephone receiver

·         Western Electric watchcase telephone receiver

·         Western Electric 1889 48" LARGE walnut wall telephone

·         Group of 5 Cobalt blue Bell System Bell Telephone paperweights

·         Three cast iron GRAY PayStation coin drawers

·         1880s Western Electric BLAKE box 3 Jug walnut wall telephone

·         Western Electric 1911 Candlestick telephone with LADY Hide A Phone

·         GLOBE Phone Mfg Co. unique piece of telephony history

·         Missouri & Kansas Telephone Company BLUE Cobalt Bell Paperweight

·         Unrestored 1884 American Bell Telephone Co. walnut wall telephone

·         1892 American Bell Telephone TOLL TEST Head Set VERY RARE!

·         Southern New England Telephone Co. August 1950 directory & two others

·         unusual OAK early telephone plug board

·         early Telephone wood mouthpiece for 3 box telephone with screen

·         Western Electric transitional Pony Terminal top telephone receiver

·         Western Electric Type 85 walnut fiddleback telephone

·         New England Tel & Telegraph OAK Type 217F  10 line box

·         Western Electric OAK Telephone Vanity w/A.B.T Transmitter & Long Pole receiver

·         Chicago Telephone Company RULES dated 1887

·         Baird Telephone Coin Collector for parts

·         Pair of station boards GrayBar InterPhone

·         Group of Telephone attachment BOXES ONLY

·         1891 Western Electric 2 box walnut telephone with excellent parts

·         Early PayStation 1 arm bandit coin collector

·         32" fancy 4 pin cloth telephone receiver cord

·         Western Electric C1 non dial space saver telephone with NO GROOVE E1 handset

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph walnut 301A fiddleback telephone

·         Western Electric Bell System KS-7118 unusual Telephone receiver part

·         unusual DETROIT Extension Bell Telephone ringer box

·         Early telephone Long Pole terminal top receiver

·         Western Electric OAK 294A Fiddleback wall telephone

·         American Bell Telephone BLAKE TRANSMITTER Edison Carbon Reproduction

·         Western Electric Telephone & Telegraph Apparatus Cobalt Blue Bell Paperweight

·         rare New England Telephone & Telegraph "Why Not Telephone & Find Out"

·         Western Electric Oak unusual Intercom 12 button with 1 bell on top

·         Old Telephones Scrapbook Volumes I, II, and III from the Smithsonian

·         Bell System Telephone & Telegraph Company Local & Long distance Paperweight

·         Long Pole telephone receiver

·         Western Electric 1894 Two-Box walnut telephone

·         Speed-A-Call antique telephone directory attachment

·         Western Electric INTER-PHONE metal wall telephone

·         Pair of Western Electric model 211 Spacesaver Telephones

·         Western Electric 50" Oak SUNBURST Tandem MUSEUM QUALITY TELEPHONE!

·         Gray Pay Station payphone coin collector telephone

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph LARGE BELL Extension bell box

·         Handi-Pad desk telephone attachment in original box

·         Saltillo Telephone Company PA $25 reward framed

·         Western Electric Type 271G 10 line telephone bell box

·         Magna-Dialer telephone desk phone attachment

·         Large group of telephone attachment advertising boxes only

·         Late 1880s Western Electric walnut Blake telephone

·         Western Electric Co. telephone extension bell ringer box

·         1894 Western Electric OAK Type 68 unusual compact wall telephone

·         The Southern New England Telephone Company Phone Booth Directory

·         1880s Western Electric 2 Box Walnut Telephone w/7 Digit Transmitter

·         Argonne AR 20 Telephone Pickup recording device

·         Western Electric OAK Type 44 1893 top box

·         Primitive early 1880s Oak telephone table top candlestick ringer box

·         Western Electric OAK Vanity Switchboard VERY RARE!

·         The Telephone Patent Book 1876-1920 Reference Guide

·         The Southwestern Bell Telephone Company COBALT Blue Bell Paperweight

·         Wooden Terminal Top telephone receiver

·         Western Electric OAK Wall Telephone with Gray Coin Collector

·         1880s Western Electric unusual TALL extension bell box

·         New York Telephone Co. "Open The Future" advertising item

·         1880s American Bell Telephone early COFFIN magneto box

·         WH Dunhain FERROTYPES FOR TELEPHONE in original box

·         Western Electric OAK 6 Ft Tandem on the Stilts MUSEUM Quality

 

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Auction Date(s)
Bidding Starts: Wednesday Dec 28 , 9:00 AM
Bidding Ends: Sunday Jan 1 , 6:00 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 MUSEUM QUALITY TELEPHONES! 12% Buyers Premium, 4% CC fee. Local pickup and Shipping available

The Mulvey Antique Telephone Collection

Historical Online Telephone Collection Auction

TheMulveyCollection.com

FreelandAuctionServices.com

Click Here to Register & Bid On Proxibid.com

Begins Sunday, December 4th, 2022 & Ends Sunday, January 1st , 2023

 

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 4th 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; 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, Blake 3 box telephones, 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 #4 brief listings below

·         1891 Walnut Western Electric 2 Box American Bell Wall Telephone

·         Union Telephone Co. HOME TELEPHONE Co. of Palo $25 reward sign

·         Western Electric Walnut Fiddleback w A.B.T. Co. Nickel transmitter

·         1900 Western Electric TYPE 98 S fiddleback telephone

·         1893 The Colorado Telephone Co. Capital Stock Share framed

·         Western Electric OAK 273F Candlestick Telephone Ringer Box

·         Western Electric small metal intercom telephone

·         2 piece Gray Pay Station 3 Slot Coin "TEMPORARILY OUT OF SERVICE" tag

·         1894 Western Electric 3 Jug Walnut Telephone MUSEUM QUALITY

·         The BLISS Individual Signal made for American Bell Telephone Co. UNDER BLAKES Pat's

·         1894 Western Electric walnut subset extension telephone bell box

·         American Bell Telephone New England T&T walnut 3 Box BLAKE telephone

·         1880s wood telephone terminal top receiver

·         early 1890s Long Pole telephone receiver EXCELLENT Condition

·         rare telephone nickel transmitter with unusual brown mouthpiece

·         Western Electric 301E walnut fiddleback telephone w/#11 Coin Collector

·         Black wooden telephone terminal top receiver stamped "A POTVIN"

·         Western Electric OAK single box telephone with GRAY COIN COLLECTOR

·         Western Electric Walnut TYPE 2 Two Box Wall Telephone

·         Western Electric OAK TYPE 72 unusual telephone top box

·         Studebaker Machine Co. Desk Telephone advertising attachment

·         1884 walnut Western Electric magneto ringer box with crank

·         walnut Bell Telephone wooden terminal top reproduction receiver

·         American Bell Telephone terminal top PONY transitional receiver

·         rare The Miniature Telephone Booth Co. NEW YORK 1908 Oak booth

·         Beveled edge nickel over brass telephone transmitter

·         1880 POST & CO. Coffin telephone switchhook

·         original 1880s Bell Telephone wooden terminal top receiver Model #2

·         Western Electric New England T & T WALNUT 2 Box Telephone

·         1884 Bell Telephone Buffalo NY rental receipts COFFIN on front

·         1889 Viaduct Telephone Co. wooden receiver

·         Western Electric unusual OAK Warehouse Telephone

·         4 Pin early telephone receiver cloth cord

·         "Positive" Telephone Reminder attachment in original package

·         early 1880s wooden terminal top telephone receiver

·         Western Electric black 533 telephone with backboard & battery box

·         Eastern No 2 Dry Cell for all open circuit work by Eastern Carbon Works

·         unmarked 1878-1879 Bell Telephone wooden receiver

·         Northern Electric Extension Bells Montreal Red Ringer box

·         Western Electric Walnut Tandem Telephone with 7 Digit transmitter

·         New England Telehone & Telegraph 10 line type 271G ringer box

·         Long Pole telephone receiver

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph Type 111B two box telephone

·         Western Electric #70 watchcase telephone receiver

·         The GERSON System blake style telephone transmitter unit

·         Western Electric OAK Folding Vanity w/Long Pole receiver

·         Western Electric 297G Oak 2 party telephone subset

·         Victorian era unique "HIDE A PHONE" art deco décor

·         1880s wooden BELL telephone receiver stamped on side

·         1880s Telephone & Telegraph Construction Detroit 3 box phone

·         1892 ELSON improved wooden receiver

·         Time-O-Call telephone call timer Mid-Century 1950s

·         Western Electric walnut Type 40 extension bell box

·         Graybar INTER-PHONE model 383 J wall hanging handset phone

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph OAK wall Telephone

·         1879 Charles Williams wooden terminal top telephone receiver

·         Illinois Bell Telephone Company Directory For Chicago

·         1879/1880 stamped American Bell Telephone 2 box telephone

·         Bell System New York Telephone Company BLUE BELL PAPERWEIGHT

·         Dan Mac SLUG Deflector For PayStations for installation on PayPhones

·         Late 1890s Western Electric walnut Type 312A Fiddleback Telephone

·         Pair of Bell System Telephone Cobalt Blue Bell Paperweights

·         Gray Telephone Pay Station 3 Slot portable Coin Collector

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph 3 BOX w/Canadian BLAKE Transmitter

·         1880s Charles Williams Jr walnut Annunciator 100 Court St BOSTON

·         Local & Long Distance Telephone Cobalt Blue Bell System Paperweight

·         1879 Charles Williams Jr. wooden terminal top telephone receiver

·         Western Electric Oak model 283 w/Battery Box & PONY Receiver

·         American Bell Telephone Edison Carbon BLAKE Transmitter reproduction

·         1879 magneto transmitter telephone part unknown maker

·         Early 1920s PHONOMETER fancy timer made by C. H. Grave Co

·         1888 Western Electric walnut Type 21 Wall Telephone w/attachments

·         Gray 3 Slot TWO PIECE Payphone Telephone 2A coin box

·         Pair of Western Electric 3" telephone dials #2AB & #2AE

·         1884 American Bell Telephone BLAKE 3 Box with #2 stamped top box

·         Western Electric extension bell box original POST & CO. ringer

·         Western Electric C1 1930s Space Saver wall telephone

·         Western Electric telephone sounder

·         Western Electric mutli-line 1920s telephone model 1324C12

·         1879 BELGIUM Coffin Telephone with PONY CROWN Receiver

·         Western Electric 1893 walnut Type 21 top box

·         New England Tel & Telegraph walnut 2 Box Telephone 1893

·         1880 Charles Williams wooden telephone receiver

·         Western Electric watchcase telephone receiver

·         Western Electric 1889 48" LARGE walnut wall telephone

·         Group of 5 Cobalt blue Bell System Bell Telephone paperweights

·         Three cast iron GRAY PayStation coin drawers

·         1880s Western Electric BLAKE box 3 Jug walnut wall telephone

·         Western Electric 1911 Candlestick telephone with LADY Hide A Phone

·         GLOBE Phone Mfg Co. unique piece of telephony history

·         Missouri & Kansas Telephone Company BLUE Cobalt Bell Paperweight

·         Unrestored 1884 American Bell Telephone Co. walnut wall telephone

·         1892 American Bell Telephone TOLL TEST Head Set VERY RARE!

·         Southern New England Telephone Co. August 1950 directory & two others

·         unusual OAK early telephone plug board

·         early Telephone wood mouthpiece for 3 box telephone with screen

·         Western Electric transitional Pony Terminal top telephone receiver

·         Western Electric Type 85 walnut fiddleback telephone

·         New England Tel & Telegraph OAK Type 217F  10 line box

·         Western Electric OAK Telephone Vanity w/A.B.T Transmitter & Long Pole receiver

·         Chicago Telephone Company RULES dated 1887

·         Baird Telephone Coin Collector for parts

·         Pair of station boards GrayBar InterPhone

·         Group of Telephone attachment BOXES ONLY

·         1891 Western Electric 2 box walnut telephone with excellent parts

·         Early PayStation 1 arm bandit coin collector

·         32" fancy 4 pin cloth telephone receiver cord

·         Western Electric C1 non dial space saver telephone with NO GROOVE E1 handset

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph walnut 301A fiddleback telephone

·         Western Electric Bell System KS-7118 unusual Telephone receiver part

·         unusual DETROIT Extension Bell Telephone ringer box

·         Early telephone Long Pole terminal top receiver

·         Western Electric OAK 294A Fiddleback wall telephone

·         American Bell Telephone BLAKE TRANSMITTER Edison Carbon Reproduction

·         Western Electric Telephone & Telegraph Apparatus Cobalt Blue Bell Paperweight

·         rare New England Telephone & Telegraph "Why Not Telephone & Find Out"

·         Western Electric Oak unusual Intercom 12 button with 1 bell on top

·         Old Telephones Scrapbook Volumes I, II, and III from the Smithsonian

·         Bell System Telephone & Telegraph Company Local & Long distance Paperweight

·         Long Pole telephone receiver

·         Western Electric 1894 Two-Box walnut telephone

·         Speed-A-Call antique telephone directory attachment

·         Western Electric INTER-PHONE metal wall telephone

·         Pair of Western Electric model 211 Spacesaver Telephones

·         Western Electric 50" Oak SUNBURST Tandem MUSEUM QUALITY TELEPHONE!

·         Gray Pay Station payphone coin collector telephone

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph LARGE BELL Extension bell box

·         Handi-Pad desk telephone attachment in original box

·         Saltillo Telephone Company PA $25 reward framed

·         Western Electric Type 271G 10 line telephone bell box

·         Magna-Dialer telephone desk phone attachment

·         Large group of telephone attachment advertising boxes only

·         Late 1880s Western Electric walnut Blake telephone

·         Western Electric Co. telephone extension bell ringer box

·         1894 Western Electric OAK Type 68 unusual compact wall telephone

·         The Southern New England Telephone Company Phone Booth Directory

·         1880s Western Electric 2 Box Walnut Telephone w/7 Digit Transmitter

·         Argonne AR 20 Telephone Pickup recording device

·         Western Electric OAK Type 44 1893 top box

·         Primitive early 1880s Oak telephone table top candlestick ringer box

·         Western Electric OAK Vanity Switchboard VERY RARE!

·         The Telephone Patent Book 1876-1920 Reference Guide

·         The Southwestern Bell Telephone Company COBALT Blue Bell Paperweight

·         Wooden Terminal Top telephone receiver

·         Western Electric OAK Wall Telephone with Gray Coin Collector

·         1880s Western Electric unusual TALL extension bell box

·         New York Telephone Co. "Open The Future" advertising item

·         1880s American Bell Telephone early COFFIN magneto box

·         WH Dunhain FERROTYPES FOR TELEPHONE in original box

·         Western Electric OAK 6 Ft Tandem on the Stilts MUSEUM Quality