My Wood telephone  Collection

This is a close-up of 3 of my Rare Western Electric Phones:
Circa 1888 Blake 3-Box with lettered Blake Transmitter and lettered Cap Long pole.  Transmitter is mounted on an American Bell "Crows Foot" mount. The middle phone is a rare Type 91K Common Battery long Distance 2-box, with an original White Bakelite mouthpiece, with a * in the center.  This phone has a writing shelf and no battery box---because it is "Common Battery" (Central Energy); e.g. it received it's power from the local Exchange instead of from local batteries. The right phone is a New England Long Distance 2-Box set.


  

These are 2 rare "Three Jug" (so called because it took 3 wet Cell
Batteries, wired in series) Long Distance Telephones.  The left one is oak and the right is in walnut.