Western Electric No. 51AL Reproduction Candlestick Telephone Antique Phones Sales Brochure

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

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make and recieve phone calls

Base – The base is completely stripped of all its components and sandblasted clean

Western Electric No. 51AL Reproduction Candlestick Telephone Antique Phones Sales BrochureReproduction 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