Western Electric No. 51AL Reproduction Candlestick Telephone Antique Phones make and recieve phone calls

make and recieve phone calls

Shell – The metal body has been stripped down and sandblasted using a glass grit media andpainted in a semi-gloss black finish

The displayphone requires an external power source which is being included here

Shell – The metal body has been stripped down and the brass body professionally buffed back to a beautiful shine

Western Electric No. 51AL Reproduction Candlestick Telephone Antique Phones make and recieve phone callsReproduction 51AL black dial candlestick with modern network ringer. Almon Strowger filed his patent for the dial in 1891 and by the early part of the century, the Automatic Electric Company's dial exchanges were being implemented by independent telephone companies across the US. Western Electric had done some work on dial systems prior to 1919, but it was ultimately an operators strike in Boston that shut down telephone service that ultimately