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Solid Brass Ships Telephone On Pedesta
Located in Norwell, MA
Highly polished brass ships telephone on pedestal. Meticulously polished andl lacquered head by
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1920s North American Antique Telephones

Materials

Brass

Vintage Southern California Telephone Company Badge
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Vintage enamel Bell shaped Southern CA Telephone Co badge with employee number 649 labeled along
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Early 20th Century Antique Telephones

Materials

Metal, Enamel

Early 20th century Swedish metal telephone by Rikstelefon
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Early 20th century Swedish metal telephone by rikstelefon circa 1900. Quite possibly early than
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Early 20th Century Swedish Edwardian Antique Telephones

Materials

Metal, Brass

Fancy Antique Swedish Telephone Early 20th Century
Located in Rochester, NY
Fancy brass , black lacquer with gilded decoration. A work of art. Swedish Coat of arms on dial. . Circa 1910. Working condition. Made by L.M. Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Early 20th Century Antique Telephones

Materials

Brass

The Biggest of All; Telephone and Telegraph Building.
By Joseph Pennell
Located in Storrs, CT
The Biggest of All; Telephone and Telegraph Building. 1925. Etching. Wuerth 853. 9 7/8 x 11
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Early 20th Century American Modern Antique Telephones

Materials

Etching, Drypoint

Original Antique War Propaganda Poster Enemy Listening Careful Telephone WWI
Located in London, GB
is Listening! Be Careful on the Telephone! - featuring a design in blue and white depicting a soldier
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1910s German Antique Telephones

Materials

Paper

Antique Print of the First Dutch Telephone Company, c.1890
Located in Langweer, NL
antique print of the first telephone company of the Netherlands. Published circa 1890. Artists and
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19th Century Antique Telephones

Materials

Paper

Antique French Style Chased Repoussé Gilt Telephone with Carved Jade Inset
Located in Rochester, NY
Antique French style telephone. Decorated in the Asian style. Hand chased gilt brass. Inset with
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Early 20th Century American Antique Telephones

Materials

Jade, Metal, Brass

Antique L. M. Ericsson AC110 Iron Skeleton Telephone Taxen Eiffel Dachshund #3
By L.M. Ericsson
Located in Sweden, SE
Desktop telephone model AC 110 (Old catalogue No. 375) made by L. M. Ericsson, Stockholm in period
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Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Antique Telephones

Materials

Metal, Brass, Bronze

Oscar Bach Attributed Figural Bronze Marble Top Telephone Hall Stand with Chair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique Oscar Bach Attributed Figural Bronze Marble Top Telephone Hall Stand with Chair. Item
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Late 19th Century Unknown Renaissance Antique Telephones

Materials

Marble, Bronze

Antique Wrought Tiered Iron Parlor Organ Floor Lamp Table Telephone Stand 46"
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique Art Nouveau style parlor floor lamp / telephone / plant stand / side table featuring a two
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Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Antique Telephones

Materials

Iron

Cat Kitten On Bell Telephone Austrian Vienna Bronze circa 1900 Miniature Bronze
Located in New York, NY
TELEPHONES. This wonderful antique Austrian Vienna Bronze (Bronze de Vienne, Wiener Bronze, Cold Painted
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Early 20th Century Austrian Gilded Age Antique Telephones

Materials

Bronze

Antique Wooden Ericsson MB 115 Crank Magneto Field Telephone 1895 С Mark 1
By L.M. Ericsson
Located in Sweden, SE
Rare, hard to find. Telephone “C” Mark 1 (Mk 1), designed by Ericsson’s of Stockholm, was the first
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Late 19th Century Swedish Art Nouveau Antique Telephones

Materials

Metal, Brass

Antique Art Deco Sterling Silver and Bakelite Telephone Child's Toy Baby Rattle
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique figural telephone child's baby rattle is presumed to have been made in the United
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Early 20th Century American Art Deco Antique Telephones

Materials

Sterling Silver

Antique Swedish Wooden Wall Telephone L.M. Ericsson model 305 Crank Magneto 1918
By L.M. Ericsson
Located in Sweden, SE
Rather small size wall telephone model 305 with detached earpiece, made in 1918 by L.M. Ericsson
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Early 20th Century Swedish Art Nouveau Antique Telephones

Materials

Metal, Brass

Vintage Oscar Bach Attr Telephone Table or Bar Cabinet, Bronze Steel Iron Marble
By Oscar Bruno Bach
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A unique bronze, iron and marble telephone stand (better use today is a bar cabinet) Attributed to
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1920s American Gothic Revival Antique Telephones

Materials

Belgian Black Marble, Bronze, Iron

L. M. Ericsson BC 2000 Telephone Made in 1900 Designed as Old Times Book Press
By L.M. Ericsson
Located in Sweden, SE
Very rare collectible desktop telephone L. M. Ericsson model BC 2000 (Old Catalogue No. 400) for
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1890s Art Nouveau Antique Telephones

Materials

Metal, Brass

Antique extra bell for L.M. Ericsson telephone model RA 10/2 RA 10/2000
By L.M. Ericsson
Located in Sweden, SE
telegraph equipment before shifting its focus to telephones. By the early 20th century, the company was
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Early 20th Century Swedish Art Deco Antique Telephones

Materials

Metal, Brass

Le Théâtrophone - Vintage Art Nouveau Lithograph Poster by Jules Cheret
By Jules Chéret
Located in East Quogue, NY
listeners to enjoy opera and theatre performances for a small fee over the telephone. It began in Paris in
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Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Telephones

Materials

Paper

Original Antique Exhibition Poster Sample Fair Bufalo Brito Latvian Trade Fair
Located in London, GB
telephone numbers below. Good condition, creasing, tears, folds, signature in pencil on bottom left corner.
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1920s Latvian Antique Telephones

Materials

Paper

ANTIQUE good HARDING Rocking Chair in Good Condition - W991
By Harden Furniture 1
Located in Shamokin Dam, PA
is completed, we'll need your telephone number for delivery. W991
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Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Antique Telephones

Materials

Oak

An Early 20th Century Sign for Rav Naftali Horowitz , Boro Park, New York
Located in New York, NY
Horowitz's name Prominently displayed in both English and Hebrew at the center. His telephone number is
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Early 20th Century American Antique Telephones

Materials

Hardwood

Vintage Phone, 1930s/40s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage telephone is an original design object realized in the 1930s/40s. A brass and wood
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Early 20th Century Italian Antique Telephones

Materials

Brass

Vintage Phone, 1930s/40s
Vintage Phone, 1930s/40s
H 13 in W 10.24 in D 5.12 in
19th Century French Renaissance Hall Bench
Located in Dallas, TX
visitors to a home. In the days before telephones, one simply stopped by and waited until the host was
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Mid-19th Century Antique Telephones

Materials

Oak

Vintage New York Sunday World Poster - Woman Kicking Football, 1895
Located in Langweer, NL
York Women Who Gamble in Wall Street" and "An Actual Telephone to the Moon." A rare and striking piece
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1890s Antique Telephones

Materials

Paper

Beautiful Roycroft Chair, Made circa 1910 (Stickley Era) - W5395
By Roycroft
Located in Shamokin Dam, PA
your telephone number for the freight company. W5395
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1910s American Arts and Crafts Antique Telephones

Materials

Oak

Art Deco Electric Bakerlite Mantel Clock
By Temco
Located in Norwich, GB
markers and gilded hands. Electric movement by Temco ( \telephone manufacturing company ltd)., circa
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1920s English Art Deco Antique Telephones

Materials

Bakelite

Hardy Uniqua Trout Fly Fishing Reel
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
fly reel with alloy foot and with double check mechanism. It has a nickle silver telephone shaped drum
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Early 20th Century British Antique Telephones

Materials

Metal

Antique Edwardian 9K Rose Gold and Enamel Cigarette Case
By Joseph Gloster
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
a business card, denoting: the telegraphic address 'Shamefaced, London', the telephone details 'No
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Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Telephones

Materials

Gold, Enamel

French school landscape Oil painting Post Impressionist
Located in Zofingen, AG
label attached to the back of the painting. Indeed, from 1920 onwards, telephone numbers in France
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1920s Post-Impressionist Antique Telephones

Materials

Gesso, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Early 20th Century American Prisoner Art Diorama Monkey Saloon Bar 'Bills Bar'
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
”, the bar, the piano, the telephone kiosk and 2 tables of cards This is a wonderful piece, all obviously
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1910s American Craftsman Antique Telephones

Materials

Wood

Aerial Photographs of San Francisco, George R. Lawrence, 1906 Earthquake
Located in San Francisco, CA
. Fortunately his fall was broken by telephone and telegraph wires; he landed unharmed. Lawrence continued to
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Early 20th Century American Victorian Antique Telephones

Materials

Paper

1920s Églomisé Checker Board with Advertising Surround From Middletown CT.
Located in Savannah, GA
dating it from the older telephone numbers with only three digits. Later, four digits were used. In
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1920s American Folk Art Antique Telephones

Materials

Glass, Wood

A Rare & Unusual Art Nouveau Guéridon Table
Located in London, GB
world-famous Lobster Telephone by Salvador Dali.
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19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Telephones

Materials

Pine

Edison: His Life and Inventions by Frank L. Dyer and Thomas C. Martin, 2 Volumes
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
the telephone, incandescent lamp, phonograph, motion picture inventions and more. The book is "long
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1910s American Edwardian Antique Telephones

Materials

Fabric, Paper

Antique French Marquetry Bonheur du Jour 19th Century
Located in London, GB
this delightful writing table with our team of experts please contact us by telephone or email and
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1850s French Antique Telephones

Materials

Walnut

Original Antique Advertising Poster Lloyds France Maritime Transports Insurance
Located in London, GB
contact details - 99 rue de Richelieu Paris Telephone Louvre 5576 / 5577. Printed by Lloyd de France Mme
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1920s French Antique Telephones

Materials

Paper

French Kingwood Bureau Plat
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
, Passage St-pierre-anelot, Paris -zl/telephone 279-04
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19th Century French Antique Telephones

Materials

Kingwood

French Kingwood Bureau Plat
French Kingwood Bureau Plat
H 31.5 in W 73.23 in D 38.98 in
Le Théâtrophone
By Jules Chéret
Located in East Quogue, NY
listeners to enjoy opera and theatre performances for a small fee over the telephone. It began in Paris in
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1890s Art Nouveau Antique Telephones

Materials

Lithograph

Juvenia Sterling Silver Campaign Style Rotary Phone Bezel Manual Wristwatch
By Juvenia
Located in Long Beach, CA
never seen this example of the shrapnel watch with the "telephone" bezel done by Juvenia. Uniquely, both
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1910s Swiss Art Deco Antique Telephones

Original Antique Lithograph Poster Voitures Prosper Lambert Cars Automobile Art
Located in London, GB
and contact information in black - Voitures Prosper Lambert Nanterre 18 Rue du Cherbourg Telephone 31
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Early 1900s French Antique Telephones

Materials

Paper

Henry Charles Bryant 19th century oil, genre scene, children at fair
Located in York, GB
please provide telephone/email details for courier. All taxes/customs etc to be paid for by purchaser.
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19th Century English School Antique Telephones

Materials

Oil

19th Century Portrait Of A Young Woman Oil On Canvas
Located in York, GB
/customs to be paid for by purchaser. please provide telephone/email details for courier.
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19th Century Old Masters Antique Telephones

Materials

Oil

19th century English School Portrait of a Gentleman, with Riding Crop & Dog
Located in York, GB
days.Fully insured delivery. please provide telephone/email details for courier. We ship worldwide for free
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Early 19th Century Old Masters Antique Telephones

Materials

Oil

Italian antique ministerial table lamp in black metal and fabric, 1900s
Located in MIlano, IT
is, but also in a kitchen or living room, with a telephone, pen holder and a beautiful vase of
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1910s Italian Romantic Antique Telephones

Materials

Metal

Original Vintage Poster Reklame Plakat Hermann Sonntag Prints Horse Race Design
By Ludwig Hohlwein
Located in London, GB
& posters Hermann Sonntag & Co. Munich Bruchsal - and the telephone numbers and date 1927 below. Good
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1920s German Antique Telephones

Materials

Paper

Original "Back Our Girls Over There, YWCA vintage WW1 poster
By Clarence Underwood
Located in Spokane, WA
Y.W.C.A. Telephone operator sitting at the control panel switches while the soldiers march by in the
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1910s American Modern Antique Telephones

Materials

Lithograph

The Overland Guide From the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, Revised, 1883
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
included many of the largest railroads, telephone companies, banks, and other business corporations, as
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1880s American Late Victorian Antique Telephones

Materials

Leather, Fabric, Paper

Small Trout Fly Fishing Reel, Walter Dingley.
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
brass foot and has a nickle silver telephone shaped drum latch, enabling the easy removal of the drum
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Early 20th Century British Antique Telephones

Materials

Metal

19th century Portrait of a Lady, Attributed to Sir Frank Dicksee
Located in York, GB
telephone/email details for courier. All taxes/customs etc to be paid for by purchaser.
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19th Century Old Masters Antique Telephones

Materials

Oil

Early 20th C. Bertha De Hellebranth Painting of Budapest Castle (Hungary)
Located in Round Top, TX
spiritual home...My dear, dear Elena and Bertha, write me. I am very careful about my telephone because the
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Early 20th Century Hungarian Art Deco Antique Telephones

Materials

Metal

Sheep In A Landscape, 19th Century, Follower Of Eugene Verboeckhoven
Located in York, GB
. please provide telephone/email details for courier.
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19th Century Old Masters Antique Telephones

Materials

Oil

Still Life Flowers, Wallflowers, By Owen Bowen, Watercolour
Located in York, GB
buyers responsibility please provide telephone/email details for courier
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1910s English School Antique Telephones

Materials

Watercolor

Warren Soned Aquatint Titled "Calcification"
Located in Miami, FL
, USPO, Hapeville, GA; NY Telephone Bldg.; Pildes Optical Co., NY; Barbizon School Fashion Modeling, NY
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Early 20th Century American Modern Antique Telephones

Materials

Wood, Paper

Warren Soned Aquatint Titled "Calcification"
Warren Soned Aquatint Titled "Calcification"
H 14.38 in W 11.25 in D 0.75 in
1915 "San Francisco City and County" Hanging Map by W. Bashford Smith
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
International Exposition was the first world’s fair to demonstrate a transcontinental telephone call, to promote
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1910s American Art Deco Antique Telephones

Materials

Wood, Paper

Kjøbenhavns Telefon Aktieselskab (KTAS) Wall Phone Scandinavia 19th-20th Century
By Kjøbenhavns Telefon Aktieselskab
Located in Madrid, ES
, started in 1879); The Danish branch of the American Iternational Bell Telephone Co. was created in 1880
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Early 20th Century Scandinavian Other Antique Telephones

Materials

Other

St Michael's Mount, Cornwall Seascape Oil
Located in York, GB
14 working days, insured please provide telephone/email details for courier. All taxes/customs
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Early 20th Century Old Masters Antique Telephones

Materials

Oil

Arthur Joseph Meadows 19th Century Seascape Off Calais
By Arthur Joseph Meadows
Located in York, GB
worldwide for free any taxes/customs to be paid for by purchaser. please provide telephone/email details for
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19th Century Old Masters Antique Telephones

Materials

Oil

19th Century French Napoleon III Period Walnut Hall Bench
Located in Dallas, TX
while the host or hostess is able to come to the foyer to greet them, such benches predate the telephone
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1870s French Napoleon III Antique Telephones

Materials

Walnut

Théâtrophone by Jules Chéret, Belle Epoque lithograph, 1896
By Jules Chéret
Located in Chicago, IL
Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone to a little device that seemed to fuse the two together: the theatrophone
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1890s Art Nouveau Antique Telephones

Materials

Lithograph

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Antique Telephones For Sale on 1stDibs

At 1stDibs, there are several options of antique telephones available for sale. The range of distinct antique telephones — often made from metal, wood and plastic — can elevate any home. Antique telephones have been made for many years, and versions that date back to the 18th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century. Antique telephones are generally popular furniture pieces, but Art Deco, Industrial and Mid-Century Modern styles are often sought at 1stDibs. Charles Parker, Ericsson and Geeco Inc. each produced beautiful antique telephones that are worth considering.

How Much are Antique Telephones?

Antique telephones can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price at 1stDibs is $1,375, while the lowest priced sells for $185 and the highest can go for as much as $13,510.
Questions About Antique Telephones
  • 1stDibs ExpertMarch 31, 2023
    Yes, some rotary phones are valuable. Collectors often seek pieces in colors other than black, brown, white and beige, so phones that are blue, green, yellow, red, pink or purple may be worth more. The maker, age and condition will also impact the value. Rotary dial phones were brought to market in America in around 1919 or so and became widely used during the 1950s. If you want to know how much a particular piece may sell for, a licensed certified appraiser can assist you. On 1stDibs, find a selection of rotary phones.
  • 1stDibs ExpertMarch 31, 2023
    In the 1930s, phones typically looked like rotary telephones. They had either a round or square base with a numbered dial that spun when you dialed and a handset receiver with both an earpiece and a mouthpiece. A cord connected the handset to the base. Find a variety of rotary phones on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertMarch 31, 2023
    What old-style telephones are called depends on the style. Ones with a handheld main component and an earpiece that you place against your ear while talking are candlestick telephones. Phones with a receiver that you both talk and listen in and have a numbered dial for dialing are rotary phones. On 1stDibs, shop a range of telephones.