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Model: Candlestick Telephone
Made by: Various
From: 1870s-1920s
Materials: wood, brass, nickel plating, etc.
Made by: Various
From: 1870s-1920s
Materials: wood, brass, nickel plating, etc.
Men with sticks, courtesy old-picture.com
From Farr Telephone Catalog 15
Notes
The candlestick (officially 'upright desk stand') phone market around 1900 was very fragmented and competitive - a lot of manufacturers made these phones, including:
- Acme Electric Co.
- American Bell
- American Electric
- Automatic Electric
- B-R Electric and Tel Mfg.
- Canadian Bell
- Century Telephone Construction
- Chicago Hotel Telephone
- Chicago Telephone Supply
- Columbia Telephone Mfg.
- Connecticut
- Couch and Seeley
- Cracraft-Leich Electric
- Dean Electric Telephone Apparatus
- DeVeau Telephone Mfg.
- Eastern Telephone Co.
- Elliott Telephone and Electric
- Electric Engineering Co.
- Elston Telephone
- Eureka Electric Co.
- Farr Telephone
- Federal Telephone and Telegraph
- Holtzer-Cabot
- Julius Andrae and Sons
- Kellogg Switchboard and Supply
- L.M. Ericsson
- Manhattan Electric Supply
- Monarch Telephone Mfg.
- Montgomery Ward
- North Electric
- Northern Electric
- Schmidt and Bruckner
- Sterling Electric
- Stromberg Carlson
- Strowger Automatic
- Sumter Telephone Mfg.
- Swedish American
- Western Electric
- Whitman and Couch
- Williams Abbott Electric
- Williams Telephone and Supply Co.
- Wilhelm Telephone Mfg.