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Decorative Cradle Antique Telephones

Decorate your home with a beautiful antique decorative phone accent today. Many colors and styles to choose from for every room!

Great Vintage phones for props in movies, plays, and theater productions. Place an antique phone in your place of business, restaurants, bed and breakfast, hotels, and inns.

In the 1890's a new smaller style of telephone was introduced, packaged in three parts. The transmitter stood on a stand, known as a "candlestick" for its shape. When not in use, the receiver hung on a hook with a switch in it, known as a "switchhook." Previous telephones required the user to operate a separate switch to connect either the voice or the bell. With the new kind, the user was less likely to leave the phone "off the hook". In phones connected to magneto exchanges, the bell, induction coil, battery and magneto were in a separate "bell box." In phones connected to common battery exchanges, the bell box was installed under a desk, or other out of the way place, since it did not need a battery or magneto.
More about the Western Electric model at the bottom of this page..

Decorator Antique CradleTelephone Brocade Red Libstick Color Decorative Phone great for Hotels, Bed and Breakfast, Inns, Bedrooms, Home or Office. $165.00	Decorator Pink CradleTelephone Elegant Decorator Telephones in rich colors to match your decor $165.00	Decorator Cradle Telephone Green Marble Rich Green Marble Decorative Phone would make a beautiful statement in your Bed and Breakfast Inn. $165.00
Decorator Cradle Telephone Marble Brown Rich Brown Marble Color Decorative Phone would look very elegant anywhere from your bedroom to your office. $165.00	Decorator CradleTelephone Green Marble Black Handset Green Marble With Black Handset Classic and Elegant Decorative Phone. $165.00	Decorator CradleTelephone Gold Brocade Gold Brocade Rich Looking with Elegant Handset. $165.00
Blue/White Figurine Decorator Phone Blue and White Figurine $165.00	1970's Decorator Cradle Telephone Anitque White All of these old phones have been reconditioned and refurbished to varying degrees depending on each phones condition. $165.00	1970's Decorator Cradle Telephone Gold Trim Our old phones range from the late 20's, early 30's and up to the 70's. $165.00
American Cradle Wood Decorative Phone Our antique phones are inspected and tested inside and out. $165.00	Wood 1970's Decorator Phone For Bed & Breakfast Inns We feature ultra-sonically cleaned dials as well as standard RJ11 plugs to hook into your existing system. $165.00	Grecian Cameo Cradle Decorator Telephone Our old phones range from the late 20's, early 30's and up to the 70's. $165.00
Decorator Cradle Telephone Canning Trim Beautiful Canning Textured Phone with Cherub Decoration on back panel. Makes a statement. $165.00	Decorator Cradle Telephone Gold/White Handset Beautiful Wood Telephone trimmed in Gold and White Handset. $165.00	European Art Decorator Phone 1920's Vintage Phone for collecting or decorating. $242.00
European Art Decorator Phone 1920's European Art Decorator Phone from the 1920's $242.00	Sultan Antique Phone Black $342.00	European Hi-Boy Telephone Hi-Boy European Telephone sure to make a statement in your place of business or home. $175.00
European Cradle Telephone Our antique phones are inspected and tested inside and out. $115.00	European French Telephone All of these antique phones are not the cheap imitation reproductions, but are the actual old telephones. Anitque French Phones. $293.00	Short European Hi-Boy Telephone $195.00
Baroque Two-Piece Phone Baroque Elegant European Phone. Perfect for your home, office, Inn, or Hotel. $247.00	Baroque French Handset Phone Elegant French Handset Phone. Perfect for a Bed and Breakfast, Inn, or Hotel. $247.00	Hollywood Telephone $122.00
Coquette French Style Telephone $150.00	Sweet Pillow Talk Telephone $94.00	Decorator Stylish Cradle Telephone $145.00
Pancake Phone Perfect little phone for any room in your house or place of business such as a restaurant, hotel, or office. "Pancake Phone" Retro Decor Phone $95.00	Danish Telephone - Denmark Old Telephone $345.00	Celebrity Old Telephone $153.00

The Model 202 telephone was produced by Western Electric from 1930 through 1936. It is sometimes referred to informally as a "Depression phone" since the years of its manufacture coincide with the core period of the Great Depression. Most people know the Western Electric cradle telephone mounts by number designations rather than their proper letter/number designation. 102 refers to side tone circuitry, 202 refers to anti-side tone circuitry.

The 202 was a modified version of the earlier 102 phone which, introduced in 1928, was the first commonly available Bell System telephone to include the transmitter and receiver in a single handset. The 102 had a round base, while the 202 was slightly larger and had an oval base.

The vast majority of Model 202 phones were produced in a single color � black � but examples of the phone in many other colors (ivory being most common among them) can also be found. Barbara Stanwyck talked on an ivory Model 202 phone in the 1948 motion picture Sorry, Wrong Number.

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