People often purchase Princess phones from various places such as yard sales, Estate sales, or perhaps from eBay. They do not always realize that the phones will not light without a transformer and the appropriate materials needed to plug them in for power. Read the rest of this post »

“It’s little, it’s lovely, it lights….”

That is what Western Electric said about their new desk telephone in 1959. When the Princess phone was first released the manufacturer didn’t know how to squeeze a ringer bell assembly inside the housing of the telephone as Western Electric had done with the model 302 and later the 500 sets. Read the rest of this post »