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Telephone Dials and Pushbuttons by Stanley Swihart

Updates Wanted.  This monumental two-volume reference work was started as a planned 32-page book with mainly photos and little text. Great collector interest gave it a life of its own, growing to 584 pages and with over 150 contributors in 22 countries. It covers not only the dials themselves, but also their use – including the evolution of numbering schemes in different parts of the world. Needless to say, info was still pouring in at publication time in 2010.

TCI members will find George Howard’s review in the July 2010 issue of Singing Wires, highlighting many of the book’s strengths. Unfortunately, Stanley’s passing eliminated plans for a second edition.

In the years since its publication, contributors and collectors have wanted to fill some of the remaining gaps and add their comments, corrections and related original research.

This page provides a place to post additional material that may be helpful to readers. Send your comments!

While comments in any reasonable format are welcome, a Word document is provided as a guideline for those who are submitting primarily errata or minor changes.

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25 pages of extensive comments and additional photographs, plus an added section:
Overview of dials and pushbuttons of Eastern Germany.  Contributed in January 2019 by Herbert Schwarz.

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