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Post by EXO on Sept 3, 2010 16:15:15 GMT 8
As received: (I have absolutely not the slightest idea what it is! - What about you blokes? ExO) __________________________ Pictured here is a small object found at C1. It is about the size of a hockey puck and half as thick. The majority is plastic or hard rubber. As you can see, it says "Masterplan" on the top. The bottom is missing. Any idea what this is? I doubt it's WWII vintage but who knows? Steve on the Rock
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Post by tomasctt on Sept 4, 2010 17:13:15 GMT 8
Looks like it says "Masterphone" (the "L" looks to be too far from the "A").
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Post by EXO on Sept 4, 2010 19:35:47 GMT 8
"No idea." - Shawn Welsh
"Doesn't ring a bell." - Bolling Smith
Good observation from Tomasctt, the word is most likely Masterphone, not Masterplan. D'oh! - A mute for a voice tube? A vibration damper for something? Exo
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Post by westernaus on Sept 4, 2010 22:41:03 GMT 8
Hi EXO, westernaus her'e That item may have some historical value. ""Masterphone"" was the name of a line of phones, made by a phone company Called Kelloggs in Kansas Missouri that manufactured and reconditioned phones way back in the 1920's. to 1950s. The component in the photograph would have been a bung that went where the dial would have gone if it was a dialling phone, but this item possibly came from a wall mounted steel box type housing either with a crank generator or it may have been powered by batteries and had ringer bells on top with a receiver hand piece hooked on the side . A close up photograph of phones used by the military on Corregidor could confirm this.
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Post by tomasctt on Sept 5, 2010 0:33:23 GMT 8
I asked at another forum, and was told it could be a telephone alright, something like this:
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2010 3:16:23 GMT 8
On the information from westernaus I poked around a little and came up with this on the bobsoldphones.net website To me, it look like a phone (minus the dial) that would have linked battery control to the battery itself. Does anybody have a pre-war photo that show the phone that hangs in a niche in the wall of one of the batterys?
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Post by okla on Sept 5, 2010 5:32:04 GMT 8
Hey Guys....It's gotta be from where a phone dial would normally be located. If I'm not mistaken, isn't that "719" (maybe a hand written extension number,etc ) located in the lower portion of the object. Are there any old Corregidor Signal Corps phone directories out there anywhere? Maybe this gadget is actually from the good Colonel Bunker's actual telephone. Now, wouldn't that be something?
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Post by buster on Sept 5, 2010 10:45:16 GMT 8
Was Bolling Smith being quite clever punning about what might turn out to be a telephone part "not ringing a bell"?
Can't help but smile as I admire the great detective work being done by you guys.
Westernaus may have nailed it. That's pretty authoritative.
Do we announce "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" yet?
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Post by steveontherock on Sept 6, 2010 7:37:40 GMT 8
Mission accomplished!
Excellent, as I really thought that this was post war.
Steve on the Rock
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Post by tomasctt on Sept 6, 2010 8:11:23 GMT 8
Another picture: If phone parts could talk, imagine the tales that would tell....
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