Vintage Telephony Mugs

"So your calls are monitored. Just think of it as an old fashioned party line."

Playing in the park....child on a leash.

'This is a prerecorded message. Thank you for rubbing me. Please state your name and your wish. I will get back to you as soon as possible.'

'Never mind what I'm wearing!'

'Sorry, guys. I can't go out. I'm grounded.'

'Hello, ACME Exterminators,,, ,,,Hello'

"No, it's not valuable it's just a conversation piece."

"In my day we had trimphones."

"I think you need to update your mobile device."

"Oh yes, here it is, early morning call 7:30...I can't imagine how we overlooked it Mr Van Winkle!"

'Yes, this is us speaking.'

Calling Home, "I'll get your mother..."

"Hello. This is the old man across the street. Get off my lawn!"

Shaped telephone box in a maternity ward.

'Help! As a contrarian I invested in rotary and supersized phones.'

Female impersonator hogging the phone box.

Endangered Species

"Smartphone? What's that?"

"Oh no, here comes another one of his 'back in my day' stories."

Sculpture of a telephone wire.

Always leave the booth at the sound of the BEEEEEP!

"I should warn you, I'm expecting a call."

Ballot Boxes and Smoke Signals

'Sorry, I really need to take this.'

Dial M for Mummy.

"Nothing important—nothing on fax, nothing on voice mail, nothing on the Internet. Just, you know, handwritten stuff."

'Hello, Billy I thought I told you to turn off that cell phone,'

"How are we going to sell more landlines?"

'You never see phone booths anymore.'

"Thanks for holding... have you been waiting long?"

Woman wanting to send a telegram.

LOVE your retro phone chic!

'Did you hear they fired Jake? He was caught using e-mail.'