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: Friday Apr 22, 11:00 AM
Bidding Ends: Sunday May 22, 6:00 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

TheMulveyCollection.com

FreelandAuctionServices.com

Begins Friday April 22nd 2022 & Ends Sunday, May 22nd, 2022

 

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 3rd  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. If you plan to attend either of the ATCA Conventions this summer (California, KY or Shipshewana, IN) then we can discuss delivery of larger items to those conventions.  Have fun and please contact Barry with Freeland Auction Services if you have any questions!

Mulvey Auction #3 brief listings below

·         Western Electric 20-B Nickel Candlestick with Attachments

·         Wilcox Telephones wooden transmitter string type phones

·         Gray Western Electric PayPhone "Temporarily Out Of Service" sign

·         1880 early Charles Williams 2-line Telephone Switchboard

·         Sunburst Western Electric 5 ft Tandem wall telephone

·         1880 HOLCOMB String Telephone

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. Walnut Extension Bells

·         Early 1880s OAK Western Electric Extension Bell Box

·         Unusual Western Electric Candlestick wooden intercom phone

·         Western Electric Type 294A walnut fiddleback telephone

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. Extension Bell Box

·         Western Electric OAK TYPE 293A wall Apartment telephone

·         Type 57 New England Telephone & Telegraph SLEIGH BELL Extension box

·         1921 HUSH-A-PHONE Telephone attachment, fits over mouthpiece

·         Western Electric OAK magneto Telephone with early handset

·         Early Western Electric POTBELLY Telephone Oak Subset

·         1880s Western Electric 43F Extension Box w/SLEIGH BELLS

·         Chicago Telephone Company Suburban Traffic Dept. SCROLL

·         Western Electric 1928 202 with unusual Brass note pad

·         Western Electric unusual Large 3 Jug Wall Telephone

·         Gray Telephone Pay Station Co. DIRECTIONS CARD

·         Gilliland Electric Co. walnut extension telephone bell box

·         Unknown Blake Style transmitter

·         Pair of Fenton Bell Telephone Paperweights

·         1921 L.C. Mayer EUPHONIA Hide-A-Phone ART DECO

·         Gray Telephone Pay Station Co. DIRECTIONS CARD

·         Three antique telephone instruction card holders

·         John H. Waters & Co. IMPORTERS Boston Telephone attachement

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph Potbelly Magneto box

·         Blake Transmitter

·         1880 Telephone Telegraph Construction Co. Detroit Bell Box

·         rare 1882 Charles Haskins Western Electric Telephone Microphone

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph Type 57 Extension Bell Box

·         1889 NET&T Western Electric walnut magneto box with dummy hook

·         Western Electric walnut 294 Fiddleback Telephone  w/Baird Collector

·         1887 NET&T Western Electric Type 57 extension bell box

·         The Samson Battery  No. 2 Telephone Glass Battery Jar

·         Hudson River Telephone Company New England Area information flyer

·         Baird Telephone MFG Co. Chicago 3 Slot COIN payphone part

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph OAK Wall Telephone

·         Gray Pay Station 3 slot coin collector missing transmitter and door

·         Ericsson Telephone Co. Transmitter and Mount

·         A.B.T. Co. nickle transmitter, faceplate, backcup Telephone part

·         Western Electric 40AL railroad candlestick telephone

·         Pair of BLAKE Transmitter parts

·         Silver Dollar Pay Station Porcelain Instruction Plate

·         Western Electric 7 Digit Nickel Transmitter telephone part

·         Western Electric Type 123 small wall subset with Pony Receiver

·         Charles Williams Jr. Boston Telephone Top Box, early crank

·         Western Electric OAK 6 Foot Floor Model Tandem Telephone

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. 1884 Phone Service Bill

·         Western Electric SPECIAL TYPE 305E Walnut Telephone

·         1950s Western Electric 444ECW 4 line telephone with attachments

·         Western Electric 1886 Walnut topbox with stationary switchook

·         Western Electric APARTMENT Metal Wall Telephone

·         No Shooting Toward Cable AT&T framed sign notification

·         Illinois Bell Telephone Co. CHICAGO 1920s Phone Booth Directory

·         Western Electric 2AB 1930s dial for early WE telephone

·         Art Deco era antique Candlestick Telephone HIDE-A-PHONE

·         Western Electric metal 302 with several unusual attachments

·         Patent 1904 SILVER DOLLAR PAY STATION insert coin chutes

·         Western Electric 302 Desk telephone Note Pad Advertising

·         Charles Williams Jr. OAK Telephone Switchboad

·         Western Electric non dial 202 telephone with several attachments

·         Gray Telephone Pay Station Co. SILVER DOLLAR porcelain plate

·         Western Electric 6013B Volume Control for Candlestick Telephone

·         Western Electric 40-F Railroad Candlestick Telephone

·         Western Electric B1 102 with 2HE Dial "JMRW" Rural

·         Western Electric 1913 Home Compact telephone

·         Western Electric model 294K fiddleback wall telephone

·         Nov 1939 Michigan Bell Telephone Company Phone Directory

·         Alexander Graham Bell Telephone Insulator Paperweight

·         Western Electric 293A Oak wall compact telephone

·         Western Electric 1888 walnut magento box original switchook

·         Western Electric 301 walnut fiddleback with 13A Coin Collector

·         Western Electric 20B Candlestick Railroad Scissors Telephone

·         Western Electric compact apartment style Oak wall telephone

·         NET&T Bell System 12K Gold Filled Tie Clasp Service Award

·         Buerger Bros Supply Co. Keyston 6287 DENVER Candlestick Telephone Base

·         American Bell Telephone Co COFFIN Standard Electric top box

·         NET&T Bell System ANSON 1/2012K GF Tie Clasp Service Award

·         Whispering Glass Telephone Mouthpiece

·         AT&T SCHRADE USA 105 advertising pocket knife

·         Speed-A-Call Manufactured & Sold By F and F Assembly

·         1937 Western Electric short ear metal 302 telephone E1 handset

·         Five Western Electric telephone dial number card parts

·         Western Electric Company telephone number card for #1 dial

·         Western Electric metal 302 Military Telephone with Attachment

·         50 Medicated Air Filters for MAXIM Telephone Mouthpiece

·         1880 Charles Williams Jr Telephone Manufacturer BOSTON Top Box

·         Western Electric Apartment Multi-Line Telephone

·         Pair of 1916 Signal Corps VT1 Western Electric Co TUBES

·         Super Electronics SOFT-TOUCH telephone dial converter

·         Early American Bell Telephone nickel 7 Digit Transmitter

·         Early 1900s Western Electric Type 40 Candlestick Telephone

·         1950s Telephone advertising attachment for numbers

·         Fram Filtered Anti-Bacterial Phone Mouthpiece in BOX

·         Telephone

·         Western Electric model 202 2/4H dial, E1 handset

·         Charles Williams Jr. BLAKE Telephone Switchboard

·         Western Electric 40AL railroad candlestick telephone

·         American Telephone & Telegraph Bell System pocket watch

·         Pillsbury's Farina TEL-A-PHONE novelty string phones

·         Bell System early 1900s Local Long Distance Etiquette Book

·         Rapidex Telephone attachment

·         Western Electric NICKEL Telephone mouthpiece

·         Western Electric Telephone number card ring and advertising

·         Bell System Telephone Phone booth light key

·         Southern New England Telephone Comp LONG POLE Buttons

·         1879 Davis & Watts 3 box telephone with original BLAKE Transmitter

·         Bell System Telephone SECURITY GUARD Badge

·         Group of FIVE New England Bell Telephone advertising items

·         James Cleaning & Pressing Co. Telephone Advertising attachment

·         unusual Telehone related hand helf counter in box

·         Western Electric OAK 301 Fiddleback Telephone A.B.T. Co

·         Phone-Clip attachment for early Telephone by HR Smith Co.

·         FOUR early 1900s advertising Premiums with telephones

·         1879 original PHELPS Receiver cap

·         Large group of Western Electric advertising number cards

·         Charles Williams Jr top box with TWO Long Pole Receivers

·         Early 1900s Telephone related pin "One Flag, One Wife One Telephone"

·         Western Electri 301 walnut fiddleback w/Gray #18 coin collector

·         Three early 1900s Bell Telephone promotional pins

·         Southern New England Telephone Comp LONG POLE Buttons

·         Chicago Telephone Co. OAK VANITY 7 A Coin Collector

·         Moise Klinker Co. Antique Telephone Token California

·         1960 Ohio Bell's Public Affairs Conference Medal and other

·         New Haven CT Telephone BELLES Patch and other items

·         Three GOETZ early 1900s antique telephone tokens

·         Western Electric walnut Type 72 Two Box wall telephone

·         Bashlin Telephone Disinfector GERM PROOF Mouthpiece

·         Western Electrid 150A porcelain telephone dial faceplate

·         Western Electric walnut switchboard #5 arm & Pony receiver

·         Buffalo Telephone Co. TOKEN early 1900s

·         Western Electric unusual OAK 2 Box early telephone 7 Digit

·         NY Telephone Co. Bell System Long Distance buttons

·         SUNSET Telephone And Telegraph Co. group of THREE Tokens

·         Western Electric TYPE 85 S walnut Fiddleback Telephone

·         Large Group of Promotional Bell System pins/mirrors 1941 Mercury Dime

·         Western Electric PARTY LINE unusual Walnut Telephone

·         Hygienic Telephone Disc Co MOUTHPIECE Attachment 1901

·         Three early 1900s GOETZ & MOISE Klinker Co. Telephone Tokens

·         Central Union Telephone Co. promotional advertising

·         Independent Telephone Company Ring

·         Western Electric BLAKE 3 Box Wall Telephone Post & Co. Top Box

·         Set of FOUR Southern New England Telephone Long pole buttons

·         Set of FIVE Holtzer Cabot Telephone Buttons

·         SANI-PHONE Hygienic Telephone Disc mouthpiece attachment

·         Bashlin Telephone Disinfector Germ Proof Mouthpiece brass

·         Western Electric OAK 6ft Floor Tandem w/7 Digit Transmitter

 

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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 to participate in the auction.
Listing Details

The Mulvey Antique Telephone Collection

Historical Online Telephone Collection Auction

TheMulveyCollection.com

FreelandAuctionServices.com

Begins Friday April 22nd 2022 & Ends Sunday, May 22nd, 2022

 

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 3rd  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. If you plan to attend either of the ATCA Conventions this summer (California, KY or Shipshewana, IN) then we can discuss delivery of larger items to those conventions.  Have fun and please contact Barry with Freeland Auction Services if you have any questions!

Mulvey Auction #3 brief listings below

·         Western Electric 20-B Nickel Candlestick with Attachments

·         Wilcox Telephones wooden transmitter string type phones

·         Gray Western Electric PayPhone "Temporarily Out Of Service" sign

·         1880 early Charles Williams 2-line Telephone Switchboard

·         Sunburst Western Electric 5 ft Tandem wall telephone

·         1880 HOLCOMB String Telephone

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. Walnut Extension Bells

·         Early 1880s OAK Western Electric Extension Bell Box

·         Unusual Western Electric Candlestick wooden intercom phone

·         Western Electric Type 294A walnut fiddleback telephone

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. Extension Bell Box

·         Western Electric OAK TYPE 293A wall Apartment telephone

·         Type 57 New England Telephone & Telegraph SLEIGH BELL Extension box

·         1921 HUSH-A-PHONE Telephone attachment, fits over mouthpiece

·         Western Electric OAK magneto Telephone with early handset

·         Early Western Electric POTBELLY Telephone Oak Subset

·         1880s Western Electric 43F Extension Box w/SLEIGH BELLS

·         Chicago Telephone Company Suburban Traffic Dept. SCROLL

·         Western Electric 1928 202 with unusual Brass note pad

·         Western Electric unusual Large 3 Jug Wall Telephone

·         Gray Telephone Pay Station Co. DIRECTIONS CARD

·         Gilliland Electric Co. walnut extension telephone bell box

·         Unknown Blake Style transmitter

·         Pair of Fenton Bell Telephone Paperweights

·         1921 L.C. Mayer EUPHONIA Hide-A-Phone ART DECO

·         Gray Telephone Pay Station Co. DIRECTIONS CARD

·         Three antique telephone instruction card holders

·         John H. Waters & Co. IMPORTERS Boston Telephone attachement

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph Potbelly Magneto box

·         Blake Transmitter

·         1880 Telephone Telegraph Construction Co. Detroit Bell Box

·         rare 1882 Charles Haskins Western Electric Telephone Microphone

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph Type 57 Extension Bell Box

·         1889 NET&T Western Electric walnut magneto box with dummy hook

·         Western Electric walnut 294 Fiddleback Telephone  w/Baird Collector

·         1887 NET&T Western Electric Type 57 extension bell box

·         The Samson Battery  No. 2 Telephone Glass Battery Jar

·         Hudson River Telephone Company New England Area information flyer

·         Baird Telephone MFG Co. Chicago 3 Slot COIN payphone part

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph OAK Wall Telephone

·         Gray Pay Station 3 slot coin collector missing transmitter and door

·         Ericsson Telephone Co. Transmitter and Mount

·         A.B.T. Co. nickle transmitter, faceplate, backcup Telephone part

·         Western Electric 40AL railroad candlestick telephone

·         Pair of BLAKE Transmitter parts

·         Silver Dollar Pay Station Porcelain Instruction Plate

·         Western Electric 7 Digit Nickel Transmitter telephone part

·         Western Electric Type 123 small wall subset with Pony Receiver

·         Charles Williams Jr. Boston Telephone Top Box, early crank

·         Western Electric OAK 6 Foot Floor Model Tandem Telephone

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. 1884 Phone Service Bill

·         Western Electric SPECIAL TYPE 305E Walnut Telephone

·         1950s Western Electric 444ECW 4 line telephone with attachments

·         Western Electric 1886 Walnut topbox with stationary switchook

·         Western Electric APARTMENT Metal Wall Telephone

·         No Shooting Toward Cable AT&T framed sign notification

·         Illinois Bell Telephone Co. CHICAGO 1920s Phone Booth Directory

·         Western Electric 2AB 1930s dial for early WE telephone

·         Art Deco era antique Candlestick Telephone HIDE-A-PHONE

·         Western Electric metal 302 with several unusual attachments

·         Patent 1904 SILVER DOLLAR PAY STATION insert coin chutes

·         Western Electric 302 Desk telephone Note Pad Advertising

·         Charles Williams Jr. OAK Telephone Switchboad

·         Western Electric non dial 202 telephone with several attachments

·         Gray Telephone Pay Station Co. SILVER DOLLAR porcelain plate

·         Western Electric 6013B Volume Control for Candlestick Telephone

·         Western Electric 40-F Railroad Candlestick Telephone

·         Western Electric B1 102 with 2HE Dial "JMRW" Rural

·         Western Electric 1913 Home Compact telephone

·         Western Electric model 294K fiddleback wall telephone

·         Nov 1939 Michigan Bell Telephone Company Phone Directory

·         Alexander Graham Bell Telephone Insulator Paperweight

·         Western Electric 293A Oak wall compact telephone

·         Western Electric 1888 walnut magento box original switchook

·         Western Electric 301 walnut fiddleback with 13A Coin Collector

·         Western Electric 20B Candlestick Railroad Scissors Telephone

·         Western Electric compact apartment style Oak wall telephone

·         NET&T Bell System 12K Gold Filled Tie Clasp Service Award

·         Buerger Bros Supply Co. Keyston 6287 DENVER Candlestick Telephone Base

·         American Bell Telephone Co COFFIN Standard Electric top box

·         NET&T Bell System ANSON 1/2012K GF Tie Clasp Service Award

·         Whispering Glass Telephone Mouthpiece

·         AT&T SCHRADE USA 105 advertising pocket knife

·         Speed-A-Call Manufactured & Sold By F and F Assembly

·         1937 Western Electric short ear metal 302 telephone E1 handset

·         Five Western Electric telephone dial number card parts

·         Western Electric Company telephone number card for #1 dial

·         Western Electric metal 302 Military Telephone with Attachment

·         50 Medicated Air Filters for MAXIM Telephone Mouthpiece

·         1880 Charles Williams Jr Telephone Manufacturer BOSTON Top Box

·         Western Electric Apartment Multi-Line Telephone

·         Pair of 1916 Signal Corps VT1 Western Electric Co TUBES

·         Super Electronics SOFT-TOUCH telephone dial converter

·         Early American Bell Telephone nickel 7 Digit Transmitter

·         Early 1900s Western Electric Type 40 Candlestick Telephone

·         1950s Telephone advertising attachment for numbers

·         Fram Filtered Anti-Bacterial Phone Mouthpiece in BOX

·         Telephone

·         Western Electric model 202 2/4H dial, E1 handset

·         Charles Williams Jr. BLAKE Telephone Switchboard

·         Western Electric 40AL railroad candlestick telephone

·         American Telephone & Telegraph Bell System pocket watch

·         Pillsbury's Farina TEL-A-PHONE novelty string phones

·         Bell System early 1900s Local Long Distance Etiquette Book

·         Rapidex Telephone attachment

·         Western Electric NICKEL Telephone mouthpiece

·         Western Electric Telephone number card ring and advertising

·         Bell System Telephone Phone booth light key

·         Southern New England Telephone Comp LONG POLE Buttons

·         1879 Davis & Watts 3 box telephone with original BLAKE Transmitter

·         Bell System Telephone SECURITY GUARD Badge

·         Group of FIVE New England Bell Telephone advertising items

·         James Cleaning & Pressing Co. Telephone Advertising attachment

·         unusual Telehone related hand helf counter in box

·         Western Electric OAK 301 Fiddleback Telephone A.B.T. Co

·         Phone-Clip attachment for early Telephone by HR Smith Co.

·         FOUR early 1900s advertising Premiums with telephones

·         1879 original PHELPS Receiver cap

·         Large group of Western Electric advertising number cards

·         Charles Williams Jr top box with TWO Long Pole Receivers

·         Early 1900s Telephone related pin "One Flag, One Wife One Telephone"

·         Western Electri 301 walnut fiddleback w/Gray #18 coin collector

·         Three early 1900s Bell Telephone promotional pins

·         Southern New England Telephone Comp LONG POLE Buttons

·         Chicago Telephone Co. OAK VANITY 7 A Coin Collector

·         Moise Klinker Co. Antique Telephone Token California

·         1960 Ohio Bell's Public Affairs Conference Medal and other

·         New Haven CT Telephone BELLES Patch and other items

·         Three GOETZ early 1900s antique telephone tokens

·         Western Electric walnut Type 72 Two Box wall telephone

·         Bashlin Telephone Disinfector GERM PROOF Mouthpiece

·         Western Electrid 150A porcelain telephone dial faceplate

·         Western Electric walnut switchboard #5 arm & Pony receiver

·         Buffalo Telephone Co. TOKEN early 1900s

·         Western Electric unusual OAK 2 Box early telephone 7 Digit

·         NY Telephone Co. Bell System Long Distance buttons

·         SUNSET Telephone And Telegraph Co. group of THREE Tokens

·         Western Electric TYPE 85 S walnut Fiddleback Telephone

·         Large Group of Promotional Bell System pins/mirrors 1941 Mercury Dime

·         Western Electric PARTY LINE unusual Walnut Telephone

·         Hygienic Telephone Disc Co MOUTHPIECE Attachment 1901

·         Three early 1900s GOETZ & MOISE Klinker Co. Telephone Tokens

·         Central Union Telephone Co. promotional advertising

·         Independent Telephone Company Ring

·         Western Electric BLAKE 3 Box Wall Telephone Post & Co. Top Box

·         Set of FOUR Southern New England Telephone Long pole buttons

·         Set of FIVE Holtzer Cabot Telephone Buttons

·         SANI-PHONE Hygienic Telephone Disc mouthpiece attachment

·         Bashlin Telephone Disinfector Germ Proof Mouthpiece brass

·         Western Electric OAK 6ft Floor Tandem w/7 Digit Transmitter

 

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Bidding Starts: Friday Apr 22 , 11:00 AM
Bidding Ends: Sunday May 22 , 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 on Proxibid.com to participate in the auction.
File Attachments

The Mulvey Antique Telephone Collection

Historical Online Telephone Collection Auction

TheMulveyCollection.com

FreelandAuctionServices.com

Begins Friday April 22nd 2022 & Ends Sunday, May 22nd, 2022

 

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 3rd  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. If you plan to attend either of the ATCA Conventions this summer (California, KY or Shipshewana, IN) then we can discuss delivery of larger items to those conventions.  Have fun and please contact Barry with Freeland Auction Services if you have any questions!

Mulvey Auction #3 brief listings below

·         Western Electric 20-B Nickel Candlestick with Attachments

·         Wilcox Telephones wooden transmitter string type phones

·         Gray Western Electric PayPhone "Temporarily Out Of Service" sign

·         1880 early Charles Williams 2-line Telephone Switchboard

·         Sunburst Western Electric 5 ft Tandem wall telephone

·         1880 HOLCOMB String Telephone

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. Walnut Extension Bells

·         Early 1880s OAK Western Electric Extension Bell Box

·         Unusual Western Electric Candlestick wooden intercom phone

·         Western Electric Type 294A walnut fiddleback telephone

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. Extension Bell Box

·         Western Electric OAK TYPE 293A wall Apartment telephone

·         Type 57 New England Telephone & Telegraph SLEIGH BELL Extension box

·         1921 HUSH-A-PHONE Telephone attachment, fits over mouthpiece

·         Western Electric OAK magneto Telephone with early handset

·         Early Western Electric POTBELLY Telephone Oak Subset

·         1880s Western Electric 43F Extension Box w/SLEIGH BELLS

·         Chicago Telephone Company Suburban Traffic Dept. SCROLL

·         Western Electric 1928 202 with unusual Brass note pad

·         Western Electric unusual Large 3 Jug Wall Telephone

·         Gray Telephone Pay Station Co. DIRECTIONS CARD

·         Gilliland Electric Co. walnut extension telephone bell box

·         Unknown Blake Style transmitter

·         Pair of Fenton Bell Telephone Paperweights

·         1921 L.C. Mayer EUPHONIA Hide-A-Phone ART DECO

·         Gray Telephone Pay Station Co. DIRECTIONS CARD

·         Three antique telephone instruction card holders

·         John H. Waters & Co. IMPORTERS Boston Telephone attachement

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph Potbelly Magneto box

·         Blake Transmitter

·         1880 Telephone Telegraph Construction Co. Detroit Bell Box

·         rare 1882 Charles Haskins Western Electric Telephone Microphone

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph Type 57 Extension Bell Box

·         1889 NET&T Western Electric walnut magneto box with dummy hook

·         Western Electric walnut 294 Fiddleback Telephone  w/Baird Collector

·         1887 NET&T Western Electric Type 57 extension bell box

·         The Samson Battery  No. 2 Telephone Glass Battery Jar

·         Hudson River Telephone Company New England Area information flyer

·         Baird Telephone MFG Co. Chicago 3 Slot COIN payphone part

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph OAK Wall Telephone

·         Gray Pay Station 3 slot coin collector missing transmitter and door

·         Ericsson Telephone Co. Transmitter and Mount

·         A.B.T. Co. nickle transmitter, faceplate, backcup Telephone part

·         Western Electric 40AL railroad candlestick telephone

·         Pair of BLAKE Transmitter parts

·         Silver Dollar Pay Station Porcelain Instruction Plate

·         Western Electric 7 Digit Nickel Transmitter telephone part

·         Western Electric Type 123 small wall subset with Pony Receiver

·         Charles Williams Jr. Boston Telephone Top Box, early crank

·         Western Electric OAK 6 Foot Floor Model Tandem Telephone

·         New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. 1884 Phone Service Bill

·         Western Electric SPECIAL TYPE 305E Walnut Telephone

·         1950s Western Electric 444ECW 4 line telephone with attachments

·         Western Electric 1886 Walnut topbox with stationary switchook

·         Western Electric APARTMENT Metal Wall Telephone

·         No Shooting Toward Cable AT&T framed sign notification

·         Illinois Bell Telephone Co. CHICAGO 1920s Phone Booth Directory

·         Western Electric 2AB 1930s dial for early WE telephone

·         Art Deco era antique Candlestick Telephone HIDE-A-PHONE

·         Western Electric metal 302 with several unusual attachments

·         Patent 1904 SILVER DOLLAR PAY STATION insert coin chutes

·         Western Electric 302 Desk telephone Note Pad Advertising

·         Charles Williams Jr. OAK Telephone Switchboad

·         Western Electric non dial 202 telephone with several attachments

·         Gray Telephone Pay Station Co. SILVER DOLLAR porcelain plate

·         Western Electric 6013B Volume Control for Candlestick Telephone

·         Western Electric 40-F Railroad Candlestick Telephone

·         Western Electric B1 102 with 2HE Dial "JMRW" Rural

·         Western Electric 1913 Home Compact telephone

·         Western Electric model 294K fiddleback wall telephone

·         Nov 1939 Michigan Bell Telephone Company Phone Directory

·         Alexander Graham Bell Telephone Insulator Paperweight

·         Western Electric 293A Oak wall compact telephone

·         Western Electric 1888 walnut magento box original switchook

·         Western Electric 301 walnut fiddleback with 13A Coin Collector

·         Western Electric 20B Candlestick Railroad Scissors Telephone

·         Western Electric compact apartment style Oak wall telephone

·         NET&T Bell System 12K Gold Filled Tie Clasp Service Award

·         Buerger Bros Supply Co. Keyston 6287 DENVER Candlestick Telephone Base

·         American Bell Telephone Co COFFIN Standard Electric top box

·         NET&T Bell System ANSON 1/2012K GF Tie Clasp Service Award

·         Whispering Glass Telephone Mouthpiece

·         AT&T SCHRADE USA 105 advertising pocket knife

·         Speed-A-Call Manufactured & Sold By F and F Assembly

·         1937 Western Electric short ear metal 302 telephone E1 handset

·         Five Western Electric telephone dial number card parts

·         Western Electric Company telephone number card for #1 dial

·         Western Electric metal 302 Military Telephone with Attachment

·         50 Medicated Air Filters for MAXIM Telephone Mouthpiece

·         1880 Charles Williams Jr Telephone Manufacturer BOSTON Top Box

·         Western Electric Apartment Multi-Line Telephone

·         Pair of 1916 Signal Corps VT1 Western Electric Co TUBES

·         Super Electronics SOFT-TOUCH telephone dial converter

·         Early American Bell Telephone nickel 7 Digit Transmitter

·         Early 1900s Western Electric Type 40 Candlestick Telephone

·         1950s Telephone advertising attachment for numbers

·         Fram Filtered Anti-Bacterial Phone Mouthpiece in BOX

·         Telephone

·         Western Electric model 202 2/4H dial, E1 handset

·         Charles Williams Jr. BLAKE Telephone Switchboard

·         Western Electric 40AL railroad candlestick telephone

·         American Telephone & Telegraph Bell System pocket watch

·         Pillsbury's Farina TEL-A-PHONE novelty string phones

·         Bell System early 1900s Local Long Distance Etiquette Book

·         Rapidex Telephone attachment

·         Western Electric NICKEL Telephone mouthpiece

·         Western Electric Telephone number card ring and advertising

·         Bell System Telephone Phone booth light key

·         Southern New England Telephone Comp LONG POLE Buttons

·         1879 Davis & Watts 3 box telephone with original BLAKE Transmitter

·         Bell System Telephone SECURITY GUARD Badge

·         Group of FIVE New England Bell Telephone advertising items

·         James Cleaning & Pressing Co. Telephone Advertising attachment

·         unusual Telehone related hand helf counter in box

·         Western Electric OAK 301 Fiddleback Telephone A.B.T. Co

·         Phone-Clip attachment for early Telephone by HR Smith Co.

·         FOUR early 1900s advertising Premiums with telephones

·         1879 original PHELPS Receiver cap

·         Large group of Western Electric advertising number cards

·         Charles Williams Jr top box with TWO Long Pole Receivers

·         Early 1900s Telephone related pin "One Flag, One Wife One Telephone"

·         Western Electri 301 walnut fiddleback w/Gray #18 coin collector

·         Three early 1900s Bell Telephone promotional pins

·         Southern New England Telephone Comp LONG POLE Buttons

·         Chicago Telephone Co. OAK VANITY 7 A Coin Collector

·         Moise Klinker Co. Antique Telephone Token California

·         1960 Ohio Bell's Public Affairs Conference Medal and other

·         New Haven CT Telephone BELLES Patch and other items

·         Three GOETZ early 1900s antique telephone tokens

·         Western Electric walnut Type 72 Two Box wall telephone

·         Bashlin Telephone Disinfector GERM PROOF Mouthpiece

·         Western Electrid 150A porcelain telephone dial faceplate

·         Western Electric walnut switchboard #5 arm & Pony receiver

·         Buffalo Telephone Co. TOKEN early 1900s

·         Western Electric unusual OAK 2 Box early telephone 7 Digit

·         NY Telephone Co. Bell System Long Distance buttons

·         SUNSET Telephone And Telegraph Co. group of THREE Tokens

·         Western Electric TYPE 85 S walnut Fiddleback Telephone

·         Large Group of Promotional Bell System pins/mirrors 1941 Mercury Dime

·         Western Electric PARTY LINE unusual Walnut Telephone

·         Hygienic Telephone Disc Co MOUTHPIECE Attachment 1901

·         Three early 1900s GOETZ & MOISE Klinker Co. Telephone Tokens

·         Central Union Telephone Co. promotional advertising

·         Independent Telephone Company Ring

·         Western Electric BLAKE 3 Box Wall Telephone Post & Co. Top Box

·         Set of FOUR Southern New England Telephone Long pole buttons

·         Set of FIVE Holtzer Cabot Telephone Buttons

·         SANI-PHONE Hygienic Telephone Disc mouthpiece attachment

·         Bashlin Telephone Disinfector Germ Proof Mouthpiece brass

·         Western Electric OAK 6ft Floor Tandem w/7 Digit Transmitter