Old Country Wall Phones - Antique Phones

Old Country Wall Phones - Antique Phones
Add a Country Junction Antique Phone to your place of business, restaurant, hotel, inn, or bed and breakfast. Country Junction Phones make a nice vintage accent in your home, game room, rec room, basement workroom, or garage. Also used as props at your local community theater group or high school play and of course movie props.

In the early 1970s, customers in increasing numbers chose to install and use telephones not manufactured by Western Electric. AT&T's wholly owned subsidiary, the Bell System began to offer specialty telephones that could be purchased or leased, called the Design Line series. The Design Line name did not refer to one particular telephone; Design Line was the collective name given to all of the specialty phones, such as the Candlestick phone, Country Junction phone, Mickey Mouse phone, etc. The phones were one of the few that could be purchased, and one of the few in which Western Electric did not produce the housings. Western Electric did supply the internal components of the phones (ringer, receiver, etc.) and placed this disclaimer on all Design Line phones.




The telephone housing is your property. To assure quality of service, all working parts, e.g., dial, cords, and electrical components remain the property and responsibility of the Bell Telephone Company."

As a consequence, Bell customers still had to pay a monthly lease fee in order to 'rent' the phone's internal components, which remained the property and responsibility of the local Bell provider. Design Line phones are one of the few lines of phones produced by Western Electric that were more renowned for their looks than durability.