Art Deco AE40 Automatic Electric antique desk telephone
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Art Deco AE40 Automatic Electric antique desk telephone In October of 1891, Almon Strowger, a Kansas City mortician and part-time inventor, with the aid of Joseph Harris and Moses Meyer formed The Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange. Their business was based on new "tapper" key telephones. By 1896, the "tapper" keys had morphed into a dial similar to the ones that would be used on telephones for the next 80 years. In 1901, the company was renamed Automatic Electric Co. and emerged as one of the largest among the independent telephone manufacturers. In 1957, AECo became a part of GTE and by year 2000 was absorbed by Verizon.... Up for auction is a Automatic Electric Type 40 desk telephone. These art deco Bakelite desk phones were from an age when style was king and function was always reliable. It is an authentic, working collectible antique from the 1940's era cleaned, polished and restored. The entire phone was completely disassembled and every part was cleaned and/or polished and tested for good working order. The Automatic Electric dial was sent to a professional for calibration and reconditioning. The rural-style (numbers only) porcelain dial plate is in very good shape. The logo card in the dial center is new and printed on good card stock. The fingerwheel is brass painted black and was polished out. The cradle grab bar has
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