May 20, 2020 12:48 PM

Novelty Phones

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A hamburger phone.
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A golf bag phone.

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An orange airplane phone.
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Novelty Phones: Grand Piano, Garfield and Hot Lips at Hello Darling QVB. November 10, 1987.

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A clam shell phone.
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A plastic 'Garfield' phone on the beach in Le Conquet, France on March 30, 2019. For more than 30 years, plastic phones in the shape of the famous cat 'Garfield' have been washing up on French beaches. The mystery is now solved: a shipping container which washed up during a storm in the 1980s was found in a hidden sea cave.

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A see-through phone.
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Yellow circle touchtone phone.

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Red lips phone.
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Touchtone phone.

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Red British phone booth.
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Entrepreneur David LeBleu dialing on one of his novelty sneaker phones attached to a person's foot.

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Tin can phone.

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