Lost Phone

[Speicher]

A guess, Agatha's Christie's house at Greenhill, near Dartmouth

(or Bertie Wooster's London flat)

am I close? with either of those?

 

[classic33]

I think I am going to start looking for one of those with the dial at the bottom of a small tower, the microphone is at the top and there is a separate earpiece. They have a special name, do you know what it is?


Edit, is it Candlestick?

What about this one:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ANTIQUE-OAK-K...in_0?hash=item27ac3941bf&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

 

[Cheddar George]

(resisting the urge to Google)
Is it Siegfied Farnon the vet in "all creatures great and small", he was always answering his candlestick telephone at the bottom of the stairs.

 

[Speicher]

What about this one:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ANTIQUE-OAK-K...in_0?hash=item27ac3941bf&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

Did that belong to Alexander Graham Bell or Gugliemo Marconi?

 

[Chuffy]

A guess, Agatha's Christie's house at Greenhill, near Dartmouth

(or Bertie Wooster's London flat)

am I close? with either of those?

In the right ballpark, both in genre and period. Cheddar George is a little further off the mark.

 

[purplepolly]

Incidentally, there are bonus points on offer if you can tell me who might answer if you rang Tilling 5647.

I may need to look it up on a Mapp

 

[Chuffy]

I may need to look it up on a Mapp

Oh well done Polly, although there were other possible answers. Did you have to Google cheat?

 

[purplepolly]

Did you have to Google cheat?

The 20s and 30s are a favourite era of mine for fiction, although I prefer books actually written then rather than just set.

 

[Mr Pig]

Just to check, does anyone actually care about Blazed's lost phone?

 

[Chuffy]

The 20s and 30s are a favourite era of mine for fiction, although I prefer books actually written then rather than just set.

I thought they were? Oh well, glad to see that someone knew what I was talking about.

 

[Speicher]

Management Advisory Package for Potatoes?

 

[Chuffy]

Just to check, does anyone actually care about Blazed's lost phone?

No.

 

[Speicher]

Just to check, does anyone actually care about Blazed's lost phone?

Whatever gave you that impression?

Chuffy, I am sure we never meant to de-rail his thread completely, did we?

 

[Chuffy]

Management Advisory Package for Potatoes?

Er, no. Tilling was the town where some of the Mapp & Lucia novels by EF Benson were set. If you haven't read them, please do. They are very, very good.

 

[Chuffy]

Whatever gave you that impression?

Chuffy, I am sure we never meant to de-rail his thread completely, did we?

Oopsy. I'll say a Hail Mary before bedtime.