The Norm Mulvey Antique Telephone Collection MUSEUM QUALITY Online Auction ICONIC HISTORICAL Items!
Listing ID#: 1339602

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Freeland , MI 48623
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Bidding Starts: Friday Oct 8, 10:00 AM
Bidding Ends: Sunday Nov 7, 7:00 PM
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Freeland Auction Services, LLC

Contact: Barry Huckeby
Phone: 9898783308
Email: FreelandAuctioneer@gmail.com
Website: freelandauctionservices.com

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The Mulvey Antique Telephone Collection

Historical Online Telephone Collection Auction

FreelandAuctionServices.com

Begins Friday October 8, 2021 & Ends Sunday, November 7, 2021

 TheMulveyCollection.com

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 will be the first of several absolute online auctions 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 #1 brief listings below

·         Gray Portable Pay Station #24 "Wanamaker" Coin Pay Phone

·         Western Electric 20AL Candlestick Telephone with Gray #14 3-Slot Coin Collector

·         Western Electric 20B Nickel Candlestick Telephone w/7 Digit Transmitter & 13A Gray Coin Collector

·         Western Electric Type 22 Candlestick Telephone with Pony Receiver & Early #14 Gray Coin Collector

·         Western Electric 20B Re-nickeled Candlestick Telephone with GRAY #14 Coin Collector

·         Western Electric 20B Candlestick Telephone with Pony Receiver & Several Attachments

·         Gray Pay station model 23D Western Electric F1 Handset

·         Late 1890s Short Eared 3 Slot GRAY Coin Collector

·         Western Electric VANITY Telephone magneto 22A

·         Charles Williams Jr. Manufacturer BOSTON extension ringer bell box stamped 2768

·         Western Electric 20pc rare A1 Conversion Telephone Desk Set 

·         Western Electric HERSHEY KISS Candlestick Telephone and 7 Digit Transmitter

·         Western Electric 20S Nickel Candlestick Telephone with Lock, Pony Receiver & Glass Mouthpiece

·         Western Electric San Francisco Pot Belly Candlestick Telephone with Long Pole Receiver

·         Baird Steel 3 Slot Telephone Pay Station single lever coin collector

·         Western Electric HERSHEY KISS Candlestick Telephone with STENO Attachment

·         Western Electric model 20AS 4 button candlestick telephone intercom

·         Western Electric Black 20AL Candlestick Telephone with Small Transmitter

·         Property of American Bell Telephone Co. patented 1877 Long Pole receiver cap

·         Clark's Supply House Noblesville, Indiana TELEPHONE Number Card Attachment CALL PHONE 115

·         Western Electric Company telephone watchcase receiver

·         unusual Wooden Telephone receiver with intercom button

·         John H. Waters & Co. IMPORTERS 1441 Washington St. Boston Telephone attachment

·         Western Electric 20B Nickel Candlestick Telephone with Buerger Bros base attachment

·         Gray 10A Shield Coin Collector with Stromberg Carlson embossed transmitter

·         Western Electric Type 22 Candlestick Telephone Black over Brass with FLORIDA notebook

·         National Bell Telephone POST & CO. Cincinnati 1879 COFFIN with no switchook

·         Western Electric 283 Pay Phone with 5 cent Coin Collector

·         Western Electric black 20BH candlestick intercom with original advertising rubber base

·         Ward's Tip Top BREAD "Number Please" early telephone advertising attachment

·         Western Electric 20B nickel candlestick with Pony Receiver and advertising attachments

·         Canadian Extension Bells C W Williams walnut ringer box with 2 UNUSUAL different bells

·         Western Electric 102 B1 desk telephone with BUERGER BROS Supply advertising base

·         1922 Western Electric A1 desk telephone with dial lock 2AA Dial and base attachment

·         1880 Viaduct Extension or Desk bells 2 BARS Gold

·         Reproduction FANCY walnut BLAKE telephone transmitter

·         1901 Baird Triplet 3 slot coin PAY STATION made in Chicago, IL

·         Western Electric 102 B1 desk telephone with JMRW Rural dial faceplate and dialer attachment

·         Bell Telephone of Montreal 1880 Long Pole receiver with Red Band C. W. Williams of Boston

·         rare Western Electric 1904 D-4508 Non-Dial Candlestick with cast iron attachment base only 1 known

·         Western Electric nickel 20BC with WONDERPHONE Transmitter Pony receiver and two attachments

·         Tucker Electrical Auto Telephone System patented March 13, 1894 Intercom

·         Western Electric Company Chicago New York, GRAY & Lewis Patented 1871 1875 1878

·         EZ Receiver Company 1910 with NICKEL Western Electric Type 22 Candlestick & ABT Co Transmitter

·         Western Electric 533 Top Box with Short Ear GRAY 3-Slot Coin Collector including cast iron backboard

·         Western Electric wall mounted Railroad Candlestick Telephone 1909 with cast iron mount

·         The Red Cross Germ Proof Glass Telephone Mouthpiece fits Western Electric Threads

·         Western Electric 7 digit telephone transmitter faceplate and marked back cup.

·         Pair of Original Western Electric #2 telephone dials 2HB and 2AA in excellent condition

·         Western Electric 1892 Black box fluted shaft Candlestick telephone

·         TELERAD round base candlestick telephone attachment Cut off base

·         Western Electric 20AL Dial Candlestick telephone with BRAILLE Attachment & Butter Nut Ad

·         Western Electric 20B nickel Candlestick telephone with Pony receiver & original 5 cent courtesy box

·         Western Electric 302 with unusual attachments including ashtray & Hush a Phone

·         Western Electric walnut 294 Fiddleback Telephone with Gray Coin Collector and Pony receiver

·         A B T Co nickel telephone transmitter

·         Western Electric 102 B1 round base with 2HB dial E1 Handset and dial advertising

·         Western Electric 302 with musical hold and Morris Phone Rest METAL/ZINC 302

 
 

·         Mountain States Telephone OAK Gray Silver Dollar Pay Station Hartford Connecticut wall tandem

·         1898 Oak Gray Telephone Silver Dollar Pay Station stamped 1345

·         Bell of Canada Walnut 3 box Blake Transmitter with Crows Feet and Red Banded Long Pole

·         Bell of Canada Walnut 3 Box Blake Transmitter with marked 1877 Canadian Bell Telephone Long Pole

·         Western Electric Oak 293A Common Battery Shelf and Backboard

·         Property of New England Bell Telephone Western Electric 301 walnut fiddle back w/Gray #11

·         1894 Western Electric 301A walnut fiddleback telephone with early Gray Pay Station

·         1894 Western Electric 301A walnut fiddleback with 5" round instruction sign & 7 Digit transmitter

·         Charles Williams Jr. Boston COFFIN telephone National Bell Telephone Co. with Charles Williams receiver

·         30" unusual early 1890s walnut Western Electric wall telephone with Blake transmitter

·         Western Electric OAK rare model 2010 fiddleback with pony receiver marked 70

·         Western Electric model 301 walnut fiddleback with BAIRD 3 slot coin collector pay station

·         Post & Company Burlwood 3 Box original Blake refinished with Long Pole receiver

·         Western Electric OAK 5' GRAVE MARKER Tandem with Beveled edge 250 transmitter & Long Pole

·         NY & NJ Tel Co. walnut three jug wall telephone 1896 with 7 digit transmitter and pony receiver

·         Western Electric Blake 3 box walnut telephone original refinished with Long Pole receiver

·         Western Electric OAK model 252 E wall 2 box telephone with Pony Receiver

·         Western Electric 1894 walnut Tandem wall telephone with Pony receiver No 5 Arm & 7 digit transmitter

·         Western Electric 2 box walnut wall telephone type 21 top box with Pony Receiver

·         Western Electric Oak GRAVE MARKER Tandem with Long Pole receiver, Glass Mouthpiece

·         July 1927 Muskogee, Oklahoma American Telephone & Telegraph Telephone Directory

·         Western Electric Candlestick telephone with Hershey Kiss Pony Receiver Butternut Bread directory

·         Western Electric nickel 20B Candlestick with A.B.T. Co transmitter and Pony receiver

·         Western Electric nickel 20B candlestick telephone with Pony receiver and CARTERS TAXI Ad

·         Western Electric 8 button candlestick model 20AT intercom with Clarks Supply House attachment

·         original wooden telephone terminal top receiver

·         reproduction Butterstamp wooden terminal top BELL Receiver dated 1877

·         original wooden telephone terminal top receiver

·         Waltham Switchboard Timer Property of The New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. No 299

·         7 digit American Bell Telephone Co. nickel transmitter 5233186

·         Western Electric Nickel Candlestick 20B with Pony Receiver Glass Mouthpiece and Celluloid Ad

·         Western Electric Nickel 20S Candlestick Telephone with Pony Receiver and Celluloid Mouthpiece

·         Western Electric model D 4275 6 button intercom with 10 station nickel shaft

·         Western Electric Model 20B nickel candlestick telephone with Pony Receiver & Red Cross Mouthpiece

·         Western Electric model 20B black over brass with Pony receiver and Mother-In-Law switchook

·         Western Electric Hershey Kiss Candlestick Nickel telephone with Pony Receiver and Attachments

·         rare Western Electric 5 digit beveled edge nickel transmitter "23342"

·         rare 1930s metal Western Electric 302 desk telephone with Westinghouse Sterl-A-Fone and ashtray

·         Property of the American Bell Telephone Co. Reproduction BLAKE Candlestick Telephone

 

·         Western Electric No. 10 BLAKE Candlestick Telephone ORIGINAL 1 of 2 known

·         Charles Williams Jr. COFFIN TELEPHONE 1878-1879 First Commercial Telephone Serial Number 091

·         Western Electric with G.M. PHELPS Receiver Blake all original RARE Telephone 1879

·         Western Electric HERSHEY KISS Candlestick Telephone with Pony Receiver and Directory

·         1880 C. W. Williams BELL CANADA Candlestick BLAKE SET no magneto Repo Hook marked Long Pole

·         Western Electric Type 22 Candlestick nickel telephone BEVELED EDGE Transmitter and Attachments

·         Western Electric Hershey Kiss nickel telephone with 7 digit transmitter, Pony receiver and attachments

·         Western Electric 20B nickel candlestick telephone with wire cord, pencil holder and BLUE PRINTING base

·         Western Electric 20PC Candlestick telephone with 5 cent courtesy pays box ORIGINAL

·         Western Electric RAILROAD Candlestick Scissors Telephone with cast iron base and mother-in-law receiver

·         Western Electric Dial Candlestick Telephone with 2AB dial and attachments on BURNS scissors gate

·         1917 LC Mayer Hide A Phone WORLD ART

·         Gray Pay Phone model 23D coin collector with several advertising attachments

·         Western Electric 102 B1 round base non-dial with advertising attachment

·         Western Electric 102 B1 round base with 2HB dial E1 Handset and base advertising

·         Western Electric 302 unique telephone with ashtray, pullout directory, and attachments

·         Western Electric IVORY 302 desk telephone in good original condition

·         Western Electric walnut model 294 fiddleback wall telephone with pony receiver

·         Western Electric walnut fiddleback SAN FRANCISCO Model 1901 patent dates model 291 E

·         Western Electric OAK TELEPHONE VANITY with beveled 7 digit transmitter & Long Pole Receiver

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Contact: Barry Huckeby
Phone: 9898783308
Sale Location
5868 Midland Rd
Freeland , MI 48623
Sale Dates and Times
Sale Terms and Conditions
Must register on PROXIBID.COM in order to bid. Local pickup is available, deliver is possibly with fee, and we use FEDEX, UPS and USPS for shipping. We accept CASH, CHECK or Credit Card payments 4% FEE FOR USE OF CC)
Listing Details

The Mulvey Antique Telephone Collection

Historical Online Telephone Collection Auction

FreelandAuctionServices.com

Begins Friday October 8, 2021 & Ends Sunday, November 7, 2021

 TheMulveyCollection.com

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 will be the first of several absolute online auctions 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 #1 brief listings below

·         Gray Portable Pay Station #24 "Wanamaker" Coin Pay Phone

·         Western Electric 20AL Candlestick Telephone with Gray #14 3-Slot Coin Collector

·         Western Electric 20B Nickel Candlestick Telephone w/7 Digit Transmitter & 13A Gray Coin Collector

·         Western Electric Type 22 Candlestick Telephone with Pony Receiver & Early #14 Gray Coin Collector

·         Western Electric 20B Re-nickeled Candlestick Telephone with GRAY #14 Coin Collector

·         Western Electric 20B Candlestick Telephone with Pony Receiver & Several Attachments

·         Gray Pay station model 23D Western Electric F1 Handset

·         Late 1890s Short Eared 3 Slot GRAY Coin Collector

·         Western Electric VANITY Telephone magneto 22A

·         Charles Williams Jr. Manufacturer BOSTON extension ringer bell box stamped 2768

·         Western Electric 20pc rare A1 Conversion Telephone Desk Set 

·         Western Electric HERSHEY KISS Candlestick Telephone and 7 Digit Transmitter

·         Western Electric 20S Nickel Candlestick Telephone with Lock, Pony Receiver & Glass Mouthpiece

·         Western Electric San Francisco Pot Belly Candlestick Telephone with Long Pole Receiver

·         Baird Steel 3 Slot Telephone Pay Station single lever coin collector

·         Western Electric HERSHEY KISS Candlestick Telephone with STENO Attachment

·         Western Electric model 20AS 4 button candlestick telephone intercom

·         Western Electric Black 20AL Candlestick Telephone with Small Transmitter

·         Property of American Bell Telephone Co. patented 1877 Long Pole receiver cap

·         Clark's Supply House Noblesville, Indiana TELEPHONE Number Card Attachment CALL PHONE 115

·         Western Electric Company telephone watchcase receiver

·         unusual Wooden Telephone receiver with intercom button

·         John H. Waters & Co. IMPORTERS 1441 Washington St. Boston Telephone attachment

·         Western Electric 20B Nickel Candlestick Telephone with Buerger Bros base attachment

·         Gray 10A Shield Coin Collector with Stromberg Carlson embossed transmitter

·         Western Electric Type 22 Candlestick Telephone Black over Brass with FLORIDA notebook

·         National Bell Telephone POST & CO. Cincinnati 1879 COFFIN with no switchook

·         Western Electric 283 Pay Phone with 5 cent Coin Collector

·         Western Electric black 20BH candlestick intercom with original advertising rubber base

·         Ward's Tip Top BREAD "Number Please" early telephone advertising attachment

·         Western Electric 20B nickel candlestick with Pony Receiver and advertising attachments

·         Canadian Extension Bells C W Williams walnut ringer box with 2 UNUSUAL different bells

·         Western Electric 102 B1 desk telephone with BUERGER BROS Supply advertising base

·         1922 Western Electric A1 desk telephone with dial lock 2AA Dial and base attachment

·         1880 Viaduct Extension or Desk bells 2 BARS Gold

·         Reproduction FANCY walnut BLAKE telephone transmitter

·         1901 Baird Triplet 3 slot coin PAY STATION made in Chicago, IL

·         Western Electric 102 B1 desk telephone with JMRW Rural dial faceplate and dialer attachment

·         Bell Telephone of Montreal 1880 Long Pole receiver with Red Band C. W. Williams of Boston

·         rare Western Electric 1904 D-4508 Non-Dial Candlestick with cast iron attachment base only 1 known

·         Western Electric nickel 20BC with WONDERPHONE Transmitter Pony receiver and two attachments

·         Tucker Electrical Auto Telephone System patented March 13, 1894 Intercom

·         Western Electric Company Chicago New York, GRAY & Lewis Patented 1871 1875 1878

·         EZ Receiver Company 1910 with NICKEL Western Electric Type 22 Candlestick & ABT Co Transmitter

·         Western Electric 533 Top Box with Short Ear GRAY 3-Slot Coin Collector including cast iron backboard

·         Western Electric wall mounted Railroad Candlestick Telephone 1909 with cast iron mount

·         The Red Cross Germ Proof Glass Telephone Mouthpiece fits Western Electric Threads

·         Western Electric 7 digit telephone transmitter faceplate and marked back cup.

·         Pair of Original Western Electric #2 telephone dials 2HB and 2AA in excellent condition

·         Western Electric 1892 Black box fluted shaft Candlestick telephone

·         TELERAD round base candlestick telephone attachment Cut off base

·         Western Electric 20AL Dial Candlestick telephone with BRAILLE Attachment & Butter Nut Ad

·         Western Electric 20B nickel Candlestick telephone with Pony receiver & original 5 cent courtesy box

·         Western Electric 302 with unusual attachments including ashtray & Hush a Phone

·         Western Electric walnut 294 Fiddleback Telephone with Gray Coin Collector and Pony receiver

·         A B T Co nickel telephone transmitter

·         Western Electric 102 B1 round base with 2HB dial E1 Handset and dial advertising

·         Western Electric 302 with musical hold and Morris Phone Rest METAL/ZINC 302

 
 

·         Mountain States Telephone OAK Gray Silver Dollar Pay Station Hartford Connecticut wall tandem

·         1898 Oak Gray Telephone Silver Dollar Pay Station stamped 1345

·         Bell of Canada Walnut 3 box Blake Transmitter with Crows Feet and Red Banded Long Pole

·         Bell of Canada Walnut 3 Box Blake Transmitter with marked 1877 Canadian Bell Telephone Long Pole

·         Western Electric Oak 293A Common Battery Shelf and Backboard

·         Property of New England Bell Telephone Western Electric 301 walnut fiddle back w/Gray #11

·         1894 Western Electric 301A walnut fiddleback telephone with early Gray Pay Station

·         1894 Western Electric 301A walnut fiddleback with 5" round instruction sign & 7 Digit transmitter

·         Charles Williams Jr. Boston COFFIN telephone National Bell Telephone Co. with Charles Williams receiver

·         30" unusual early 1890s walnut Western Electric wall telephone with Blake transmitter

·         Western Electric OAK rare model 2010 fiddleback with pony receiver marked 70

·         Western Electric model 301 walnut fiddleback with BAIRD 3 slot coin collector pay station

·         Post & Company Burlwood 3 Box original Blake refinished with Long Pole receiver

·         Western Electric OAK 5' GRAVE MARKER Tandem with Beveled edge 250 transmitter & Long Pole

·         NY & NJ Tel Co. walnut three jug wall telephone 1896 with 7 digit transmitter and pony receiver

·         Western Electric Blake 3 box walnut telephone original refinished with Long Pole receiver

·         Western Electric OAK model 252 E wall 2 box telephone with Pony Receiver

·         Western Electric 1894 walnut Tandem wall telephone with Pony receiver No 5 Arm & 7 digit transmitter

·         Western Electric 2 box walnut wall telephone type 21 top box with Pony Receiver

·         Western Electric Oak GRAVE MARKER Tandem with Long Pole receiver, Glass Mouthpiece

·         July 1927 Muskogee, Oklahoma American Telephone & Telegraph Telephone Directory

·         Western Electric Candlestick telephone with Hershey Kiss Pony Receiver Butternut Bread directory

·         Western Electric nickel 20B Candlestick with A.B.T. Co transmitter and Pony receiver

·         Western Electric nickel 20B candlestick telephone with Pony receiver and CARTERS TAXI Ad

·         Western Electric 8 button candlestick model 20AT intercom with Clarks Supply House attachment

·         original wooden telephone terminal top receiver

·         reproduction Butterstamp wooden terminal top BELL Receiver dated 1877

·         original wooden telephone terminal top receiver

·         Waltham Switchboard Timer Property of The New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. No 299

·         7 digit American Bell Telephone Co. nickel transmitter 5233186

·         Western Electric Nickel Candlestick 20B with Pony Receiver Glass Mouthpiece and Celluloid Ad

·         Western Electric Nickel 20S Candlestick Telephone with Pony Receiver and Celluloid Mouthpiece

·         Western Electric model D 4275 6 button intercom with 10 station nickel shaft

·         Western Electric Model 20B nickel candlestick telephone with Pony Receiver & Red Cross Mouthpiece

·         Western Electric model 20B black over brass with Pony receiver and Mother-In-Law switchook

·         Western Electric Hershey Kiss Candlestick Nickel telephone with Pony Receiver and Attachments

·         rare Western Electric 5 digit beveled edge nickel transmitter "23342"

·         rare 1930s metal Western Electric 302 desk telephone with Westinghouse Sterl-A-Fone and ashtray

·         Property of the American Bell Telephone Co. Reproduction BLAKE Candlestick Telephone

 

·         Western Electric No. 10 BLAKE Candlestick Telephone ORIGINAL 1 of 2 known

·         Charles Williams Jr. COFFIN TELEPHONE 1878-1879 First Commercial Telephone Serial Number 091

·         Western Electric with G.M. PHELPS Receiver Blake all original RARE Telephone 1879

·         Western Electric HERSHEY KISS Candlestick Telephone with Pony Receiver and Directory

·         1880 C. W. Williams BELL CANADA Candlestick BLAKE SET no magneto Repo Hook marked Long Pole

·         Western Electric Type 22 Candlestick nickel telephone BEVELED EDGE Transmitter and Attachments

·         Western Electric Hershey Kiss nickel telephone with 7 digit transmitter, Pony receiver and attachments

·         Western Electric 20B nickel candlestick telephone with wire cord, pencil holder and BLUE PRINTING base

·         Western Electric 20PC Candlestick telephone with 5 cent courtesy pays box ORIGINAL

·         Western Electric RAILROAD Candlestick Scissors Telephone with cast iron base and mother-in-law receiver

·         Western Electric Dial Candlestick Telephone with 2AB dial and attachments on BURNS scissors gate

·         1917 LC Mayer Hide A Phone WORLD ART

·         Gray Pay Phone model 23D coin collector with several advertising attachments

·         Western Electric 102 B1 round base non-dial with advertising attachment

·         Western Electric 102 B1 round base with 2HB dial E1 Handset and base advertising

·         Western Electric 302 unique telephone with ashtray, pullout directory, and attachments

·         Western Electric IVORY 302 desk telephone in good original condition

·         Western Electric walnut model 294 fiddleback wall telephone with pony receiver

·         Western Electric walnut fiddleback SAN FRANCISCO Model 1901 patent dates model 291 E

·         Western Electric OAK TELEPHONE VANITY with beveled 7 digit transmitter & Long Pole Receiver

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Bidding Starts: Friday Oct 8 , 10:00 AM
Bidding Ends: Sunday Nov 7 , 7:00 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 on PROXIBID.COM in order to bid. Local pickup is available, deliver is possibly with fee, and we use FEDEX, UPS and USPS for shipping. We accept CASH, CHECK or Credit Card payments 4% FEE FOR USE OF CC)
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The Mulvey Antique Telephone Collection

Historical Online Telephone Collection Auction

FreelandAuctionServices.com

Begins Friday October 8, 2021 & Ends Sunday, November 7, 2021

 TheMulveyCollection.com

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 will be the first of several absolute online auctions 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 #1 brief listings below

·         Gray Portable Pay Station #24 "Wanamaker" Coin Pay Phone

·         Western Electric 20AL Candlestick Telephone with Gray #14 3-Slot Coin Collector

·         Western Electric 20B Nickel Candlestick Telephone w/7 Digit Transmitter & 13A Gray Coin Collector

·         Western Electric Type 22 Candlestick Telephone with Pony Receiver & Early #14 Gray Coin Collector

·         Western Electric 20B Re-nickeled Candlestick Telephone with GRAY #14 Coin Collector

·         Western Electric 20B Candlestick Telephone with Pony Receiver & Several Attachments

·         Gray Pay station model 23D Western Electric F1 Handset

·         Late 1890s Short Eared 3 Slot GRAY Coin Collector

·         Western Electric VANITY Telephone magneto 22A

·         Charles Williams Jr. Manufacturer BOSTON extension ringer bell box stamped 2768

·         Western Electric 20pc rare A1 Conversion Telephone Desk Set 

·         Western Electric HERSHEY KISS Candlestick Telephone and 7 Digit Transmitter

·         Western Electric 20S Nickel Candlestick Telephone with Lock, Pony Receiver & Glass Mouthpiece

·         Western Electric San Francisco Pot Belly Candlestick Telephone with Long Pole Receiver

·         Baird Steel 3 Slot Telephone Pay Station single lever coin collector

·         Western Electric HERSHEY KISS Candlestick Telephone with STENO Attachment

·         Western Electric model 20AS 4 button candlestick telephone intercom

·         Western Electric Black 20AL Candlestick Telephone with Small Transmitter

·         Property of American Bell Telephone Co. patented 1877 Long Pole receiver cap

·         Clark's Supply House Noblesville, Indiana TELEPHONE Number Card Attachment CALL PHONE 115

·         Western Electric Company telephone watchcase receiver

·         unusual Wooden Telephone receiver with intercom button

·         John H. Waters & Co. IMPORTERS 1441 Washington St. Boston Telephone attachment

·         Western Electric 20B Nickel Candlestick Telephone with Buerger Bros base attachment

·         Gray 10A Shield Coin Collector with Stromberg Carlson embossed transmitter

·         Western Electric Type 22 Candlestick Telephone Black over Brass with FLORIDA notebook

·         National Bell Telephone POST & CO. Cincinnati 1879 COFFIN with no switchook

·         Western Electric 283 Pay Phone with 5 cent Coin Collector

·         Western Electric black 20BH candlestick intercom with original advertising rubber base

·         Ward's Tip Top BREAD "Number Please" early telephone advertising attachment

·         Western Electric 20B nickel candlestick with Pony Receiver and advertising attachments

·         Canadian Extension Bells C W Williams walnut ringer box with 2 UNUSUAL different bells

·         Western Electric 102 B1 desk telephone with BUERGER BROS Supply advertising base

·         1922 Western Electric A1 desk telephone with dial lock 2AA Dial and base attachment

·         1880 Viaduct Extension or Desk bells 2 BARS Gold

·         Reproduction FANCY walnut BLAKE telephone transmitter

·         1901 Baird Triplet 3 slot coin PAY STATION made in Chicago, IL

·         Western Electric 102 B1 desk telephone with JMRW Rural dial faceplate and dialer attachment

·         Bell Telephone of Montreal 1880 Long Pole receiver with Red Band C. W. Williams of Boston

·         rare Western Electric 1904 D-4508 Non-Dial Candlestick with cast iron attachment base only 1 known

·         Western Electric nickel 20BC with WONDERPHONE Transmitter Pony receiver and two attachments

·         Tucker Electrical Auto Telephone System patented March 13, 1894 Intercom

·         Western Electric Company Chicago New York, GRAY & Lewis Patented 1871 1875 1878

·         EZ Receiver Company 1910 with NICKEL Western Electric Type 22 Candlestick & ABT Co Transmitter

·         Western Electric 533 Top Box with Short Ear GRAY 3-Slot Coin Collector including cast iron backboard

·         Western Electric wall mounted Railroad Candlestick Telephone 1909 with cast iron mount

·         The Red Cross Germ Proof Glass Telephone Mouthpiece fits Western Electric Threads

·         Western Electric 7 digit telephone transmitter faceplate and marked back cup.

·         Pair of Original Western Electric #2 telephone dials 2HB and 2AA in excellent condition

·         Western Electric 1892 Black box fluted shaft Candlestick telephone

·         TELERAD round base candlestick telephone attachment Cut off base

·         Western Electric 20AL Dial Candlestick telephone with BRAILLE Attachment & Butter Nut Ad

·         Western Electric 20B nickel Candlestick telephone with Pony receiver & original 5 cent courtesy box

·         Western Electric 302 with unusual attachments including ashtray & Hush a Phone

·         Western Electric walnut 294 Fiddleback Telephone with Gray Coin Collector and Pony receiver

·         A B T Co nickel telephone transmitter

·         Western Electric 102 B1 round base with 2HB dial E1 Handset and dial advertising

·         Western Electric 302 with musical hold and Morris Phone Rest METAL/ZINC 302

 
 

·         Mountain States Telephone OAK Gray Silver Dollar Pay Station Hartford Connecticut wall tandem

·         1898 Oak Gray Telephone Silver Dollar Pay Station stamped 1345

·         Bell of Canada Walnut 3 box Blake Transmitter with Crows Feet and Red Banded Long Pole

·         Bell of Canada Walnut 3 Box Blake Transmitter with marked 1877 Canadian Bell Telephone Long Pole

·         Western Electric Oak 293A Common Battery Shelf and Backboard

·         Property of New England Bell Telephone Western Electric 301 walnut fiddle back w/Gray #11

·         1894 Western Electric 301A walnut fiddleback telephone with early Gray Pay Station

·         1894 Western Electric 301A walnut fiddleback with 5" round instruction sign & 7 Digit transmitter

·         Charles Williams Jr. Boston COFFIN telephone National Bell Telephone Co. with Charles Williams receiver

·         30" unusual early 1890s walnut Western Electric wall telephone with Blake transmitter

·         Western Electric OAK rare model 2010 fiddleback with pony receiver marked 70

·         Western Electric model 301 walnut fiddleback with BAIRD 3 slot coin collector pay station

·         Post & Company Burlwood 3 Box original Blake refinished with Long Pole receiver

·         Western Electric OAK 5' GRAVE MARKER Tandem with Beveled edge 250 transmitter & Long Pole

·         NY & NJ Tel Co. walnut three jug wall telephone 1896 with 7 digit transmitter and pony receiver

·         Western Electric Blake 3 box walnut telephone original refinished with Long Pole receiver

·         Western Electric OAK model 252 E wall 2 box telephone with Pony Receiver

·         Western Electric 1894 walnut Tandem wall telephone with Pony receiver No 5 Arm & 7 digit transmitter

·         Western Electric 2 box walnut wall telephone type 21 top box with Pony Receiver

·         Western Electric Oak GRAVE MARKER Tandem with Long Pole receiver, Glass Mouthpiece

·         July 1927 Muskogee, Oklahoma American Telephone & Telegraph Telephone Directory

·         Western Electric Candlestick telephone with Hershey Kiss Pony Receiver Butternut Bread directory

·         Western Electric nickel 20B Candlestick with A.B.T. Co transmitter and Pony receiver

·         Western Electric nickel 20B candlestick telephone with Pony receiver and CARTERS TAXI Ad

·         Western Electric 8 button candlestick model 20AT intercom with Clarks Supply House attachment

·         original wooden telephone terminal top receiver

·         reproduction Butterstamp wooden terminal top BELL Receiver dated 1877

·         original wooden telephone terminal top receiver

·         Waltham Switchboard Timer Property of The New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. No 299

·         7 digit American Bell Telephone Co. nickel transmitter 5233186

·         Western Electric Nickel Candlestick 20B with Pony Receiver Glass Mouthpiece and Celluloid Ad

·         Western Electric Nickel 20S Candlestick Telephone with Pony Receiver and Celluloid Mouthpiece

·         Western Electric model D 4275 6 button intercom with 10 station nickel shaft

·         Western Electric Model 20B nickel candlestick telephone with Pony Receiver & Red Cross Mouthpiece

·         Western Electric model 20B black over brass with Pony receiver and Mother-In-Law switchook

·         Western Electric Hershey Kiss Candlestick Nickel telephone with Pony Receiver and Attachments

·         rare Western Electric 5 digit beveled edge nickel transmitter "23342"

·         rare 1930s metal Western Electric 302 desk telephone with Westinghouse Sterl-A-Fone and ashtray

·         Property of the American Bell Telephone Co. Reproduction BLAKE Candlestick Telephone

 

·         Western Electric No. 10 BLAKE Candlestick Telephone ORIGINAL 1 of 2 known

·         Charles Williams Jr. COFFIN TELEPHONE 1878-1879 First Commercial Telephone Serial Number 091

·         Western Electric with G.M. PHELPS Receiver Blake all original RARE Telephone 1879

·         Western Electric HERSHEY KISS Candlestick Telephone with Pony Receiver and Directory

·         1880 C. W. Williams BELL CANADA Candlestick BLAKE SET no magneto Repo Hook marked Long Pole

·         Western Electric Type 22 Candlestick nickel telephone BEVELED EDGE Transmitter and Attachments

·         Western Electric Hershey Kiss nickel telephone with 7 digit transmitter, Pony receiver and attachments

·         Western Electric 20B nickel candlestick telephone with wire cord, pencil holder and BLUE PRINTING base

·         Western Electric 20PC Candlestick telephone with 5 cent courtesy pays box ORIGINAL

·         Western Electric RAILROAD Candlestick Scissors Telephone with cast iron base and mother-in-law receiver

·         Western Electric Dial Candlestick Telephone with 2AB dial and attachments on BURNS scissors gate

·         1917 LC Mayer Hide A Phone WORLD ART

·         Gray Pay Phone model 23D coin collector with several advertising attachments

·         Western Electric 102 B1 round base non-dial with advertising attachment

·         Western Electric 102 B1 round base with 2HB dial E1 Handset and base advertising

·         Western Electric 302 unique telephone with ashtray, pullout directory, and attachments

·         Western Electric IVORY 302 desk telephone in good original condition

·         Western Electric walnut model 294 fiddleback wall telephone with pony receiver

·         Western Electric walnut fiddleback SAN FRANCISCO Model 1901 patent dates model 291 E

·         Western Electric OAK TELEPHONE VANITY with beveled 7 digit transmitter & Long Pole Receiver