[Boatanchors] Carbon Mics

[Jim Haynes]

Sounds like what you would really like to have is a military T-32, which
is a "candlestick" body with a push-to-talk replacing the switch hook.

Outside of that, probably your best bet is to get into the Yahoo group
groups.yahoo.com/singingwires    which is a group of rabid telephone
collectors.

Now if you intend to actually use this thing on the air, keep in mind
that carbon mikes do not improve with age.  If you have an actual old
phone transmitter it will be pretty awful.

One way to improve it is called a "bulldog" and is a replacement for
the original carbon transmitter that takes a 1940s-era F1 carbon
telephone element.  I'm not sure why it's called a bulldog, but it
has a considerably larger mouthpiece than the original thing that
looks like a shot glass.

But you can do better than that.  Since people have been using 
"candlestick" phones in real telephone service there was a rule requiring
that they have modern stuff inside.  So there is an industry making
parts for telephones so they look old but have up-to-date elements.
There is a company named phonecoinc.com that sells old telephone
stuff and parts for updating them.  But I'd start with the Yahoo group.

Jim W6JVE