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    Old Australian bakelite phone with letters to be used in the prefix of the phone number.

    It used to be that Melbourne numbers were in a format similar to WL 2587 - then eventually the letters were dropped and numbers substituted. So then the above number became 85 2587. Later the two digit prefix was divided up into more specific and smaller areas and an extra digit was added - eg 857 2587.

    And after that reasonably recently, the dreaded 9 was added - so 9857 2587.

    eriksencosta, c_h13717, mkrill, and 16 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    1. angel pastor 67 months ago | reply

      excellent and nice caption


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    2. Old Telephones 63 months ago | reply

      Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Bakelite Telephones, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

    3. genevievelepine 58 months ago | reply

      Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Phone Call, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

    4. Philipp Spreckels 32 months ago | reply

      Nice shot! We are currently using it as an illustration for one of our articles: www.qhistory.de/kontakt/

    5. DavidAltmann 31 months ago | reply

      thanks for the picture. for your reference: i am currently using it on one of my blogposts: www.davidaltmann.com/den-prozess-nie-aus-der-hand-geben-u...

    6. animchow 28 months ago | reply

      thanks for CCL
      might use it.

    7. shes_so_high 14 months ago | reply

      Great Photo - I'm going to use it as an illustration on my website! Thanks!
      (www.nkirchhoff.de ...coming soon)

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