field phones

[Lassi]

Hi first of all, nice phones but I would also like to know what type of battery they take?

Regards Lassi

[Lassi]

IS it 3 volt?

Regards Lassi

[david stone]

Just a clue...I noticed on your battery the top line reads EVP 2,40. This is very typical of EAST GERMAN marked items - the price was 2.40 East German Marks. I forget what EVP means, but my East German friend joked that it meant Eternal Value Price because prices hardly ever changed in the DDR. So far as I know, the voltage for such batteries is 1.5 volts. Only source I know of is for Swiss batteries for similar Swiss phones. The closest American equivalent that is 1.5 volts is a trifle too big to fit in the case, and it is very rare in itself...

Dave

i finally recived 3 of them and have got them working yey one is all WaA stamped including thr box and generator but the other has been de-nazfied by scratching the eagle off but is dated 1945 which is excellent my main area of collecting items dated 1945 but this one si in slightly worse condition but i can still hear my little brother speeking from a room down the hall on it
also i think they came with origional wartime? battries they are made by columbus and stamped made in germany so not post war?

EVP 2,40 MDN Nr103
OTTO UHRBACH ZEITZ
KG MIT STAATLICHER
BETEILIGUNG
COLUMBUS
ELEMENT
ELL
1,5 VOLT
LAGEFAHIG: 12 MONATE
KUHL UND TROCKEN LARGERN
MADE IN GERMANY
Any one tell me anout these battries? and where i can get them from now?
Cheers Adam

[GELIS44]

1944 field telephone

Here are some pics of my German field phone. Mine is dated 1944. Picked this up at the annual machine gun shoot at Knob Creek, Kentucky near FT. Knox.

Enjoy!!

Nate

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500 POSTS!!!

[reidmuller]

heres some of mine

2nd one

WaA with date



the battery that came with them

the rieciver with a 1944 stamp

the phonetic code on top

the WaA on the generator

WaA on the box

Enjoy

[mons]

can any one tell me how to tell wartime phield fones from post war ones? as i have just managed to buy 4 on ebay.de for less than £10 each and was wondering how to tell if they are wartime i know the insides are WaA stamped but what about the cases?
Also how do they work? as i want to wire them up and use them
Thanks Adam

hi reidmuller
i was wondering if you found out about the type of batteries the field telephone uses, i recently bought 2 but didnt get any batteries with them so im kind of in the dark as to the voltage and would love to get them working.
hope you can help.
thanks.

[reidmuller]

Sorry no i use an improvised battery and holder (from an old toy) useing the 2 wires to connect up

[Craigob]

a single D cell battery will get them working, Then you have to wire them up, how many do you want to put together?. also when you get them, check the mouthpiece and earpiece to make sure the actual condensors are still inside the hand sets .

i have a couple of repop battery holders in mine (D cell slips right in and they are already wired.

see pic

[Viktor]

Hello again, Reidmuller!
Is this the phonetic plate on the top-right of your field phones?
This is the one on mine, a German wartime, not Norwegian reissue.

This System was used by the DDR as well.