My Telephone Collection
This page is the front page of the telephone collection! 

These are early examples of the candle stick collection.
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This is a very rare 1800's Walnut 3-box,
To see more of this type of telephone just click on the picture!


  

These are 2 rare hard to find signs. 
To see more just click on the signs above.


  

Here is another rare sign, that went with Independent Coin Telephones at
the turn of the Century.   The Second sign is a flat 11" X 11" Rochester
Telephone painted metal sign that was designed to go in a frame on the side
of early Telephone Booths that were located inside buildings like Hotels and
Restaurants.

  

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.


 

This is an oak  Western Electric "Folding Cabinet Desk Set", more
commonly called a "Vanity Desk Telephone, circa 1892.  It's unique feature
is that it is the original "knock down" model, that could literally be
knocked down and folded, sandwich style, and carried under the arm of a
telephone installer.


 

an oak Stromberg Carlson Vanity Desk Telephone, circa 1894 

Western Electric Floor standing Grave-Marker-top 72" tall
Tandem telephone.  This is called a Grave-Marker-Top because the rounded top resembles a grave stone.  This phone took 3 Wet Cell Batteries in tandem or, in piggy-back fashion one above the other.


  

A Western Electric Floor standing Cathedral top 72" tall
Tandem telephone, that also took 3 wet Cell Batteries.

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