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Intercoms

This is the first intercom I bought, it's marked Yankee Telecom on the bottom. The really cool thing about this phone (besides the neat-o euro-styling), is that it has 10 buttons in two rows. There are two hookup lines. One for the phone line, and another for 12 volts DC. When it's connected to power, pushing one of the buttons yields a series of clicks, so you can use it just like a regular pulse phone, and when it rings, it does so with a strangely musical buzz, and the little orange light on top goes blinkie blinkie.

This is an Ericsson intercom. It has eight buttons arranged in a circle on top. I bought this one on-line. I saw a picture and fell in love with the streamlined styling. I'm pretty sure it's from the early fifties.

This bulky item is called a Fanon-Fone. It was made by a company in New Jersey that I can't find anything out about. What I love about this piece is that the dial has 12 numbers on it, and the whole assembly rotates when you turn it.

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