A "art deco" phone

Origin: Atea, +/-1949

Obtained in 2011

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I like the shape of this phone, which has a "art deco" look. I presume it has been designed already before world war II, but this particular phone has been manufactured around 1949.

It is the standard wallphone Atea delivers to the RTT. Unlike the standard deskphone (see my 1957 phone) from around this time, this phone is delivered in a bakelite version.

We do find the phone in the ATEA catalogue with the original name "Telephones" of the end of the 1940s.

double click on a picture to enlarge it article written in "Singing Wires" , an American magazine:
 

How did I obtain this phone?

This phone was obtained from a collectioner.


Last changed on 11/11/14 by  Jan