By Dave Margulius — Every collector dreams of being the person to uncover cities of lost gold, the next Tutankhamen's tomb, or if not that, an overgrown, abandoned railroad depot packed to the rafters with relics and surprises. That hasn't happened to me yet, but here's something almost as good that did happen: Click the photo above to read how I uncovered a stash of antique telephones that had been hidden in a warehouse for 60 years, new in their boxes. It may not seem like much to you, but for me it...

The Ericofon: When the Telephone Was Mid-Century Mod

By Maribeth Keane — I like mechanical things. I’ve collected outboard motors, things like that in the past. I got into the telephones probably 15 years ago, and I’ve been there ever since. Starting to collect all the Ericofon colors was just an attempt to try and find out everything there was to know on the Ericofon. Since little information was known on the Ericofon, I made it my mission. And I decided to build a website so other people wouldn’t have to do the same research. I picked the Ericofon because I...

Antique Telephone Collector Gary Goff Talks Candlesticks and Desk Sets

By Maribeth Keane — How did I get started collecting antique telephones? As a kid I always liked phones, using them, talking on them. As a teenager I had some business telephone equipment that was taken out of an old building that was being demolished. Bell System or Western Electric 1A equipment. I took it off the wall of this old building that my father had purchased that was in the path of the I5 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles. I took that equipment home, I was 15 or 16, and figured out how to hook it to...