Comment by jacquesm
2 days ago
That restoration work on the speaker and the paper box is so well done. I spent some time under the Rijksmuseum in the workshops and the people there are similarly skilled and it was very impressive to see them at work, infinite patience and the result of all that work as invisible as possible. That's the bit that really got me, good restorers don't have any fingerprints, their biggest successes are the works that look like they were never worked on in the first place. Which is almost the opposite of every other form of creative art, and yet, they are amongst the best in the field.
That transformer from last link about the phone looks like it was made yesterday.
I knew I could count on you to ignore the gorilla, my friend.
Remember, January 31 is National Gorilla Suit Day. You have 121 days to get your affairs in order.
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My grandmother had a wall mounted phone in the hallway that could serve as a means of defense if you ever had a reason for such a thing. The whole affair was probably 10 Kg and the handset alone was more than a kilo. It helped keeping phone calls short I guess :)
It was this huge mounting plate with a separate set of bells (really big ones too, large house). The whole thing easily came to 25 cm off the wall. Unfortunately my family does not really appreciate old tech and it got thrown away. I think it was a pre-war device, all glossy wood with a built in shelf for your phone number book.