Although I have been in the telecommunications business for most of my life, I did not get interested in old phones until about 1996 when my wife bought me an old Western Electric wooden oak wall phone for Christmas. I restored the phone and that lead to a snow balling of buying and restoring phones for my personal collection. It soon became apparent that I needed a way of funding my habit so I started to sell duplicates of my collection. My first venture into selling phones was to set up a booth in an antique mall in Manassas, Virginia. The booth did very well and customers soon started to bring their old phones in for repair and restoration enhancing the sales. The booth did so well that after two years of keeping up with the sales inventory, repairing phones and having a real full time job it became too much, so I had to give up the booth and selling phones for awhile. I still did some word-of-mouth business. I started up again by selling phones at antique shows in the Washington D.C. area. I now have a booth at A&B Antiques to sell phones and to have a place for local customers to drop off and pick up repairs and restorations. Larry Kolb