Western Electric No. 51AL Reproduction Candlestick Telephone Antique Phones The displayphone requires an external

The displayphone requires an external power source which is being included here

Adds 7 programmable speed dial locations

Shell – The metal body has been stripped down and the brass body professionally buffed back to a beautiful shine

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Western Electric No. 51AL Reproduction Candlestick Telephone Antique Phones The displayphone requires an externalReproduction 51AL black dial candlestick with modern network ringer. Almon Strowger filed his patent for the dial in 1891 and by the early part of the century, the Automatic Electric Company's dial exchanges were being implemented by independent telephone companies across the US. Western Electric had done some work on dial systems prior to 1919, but it was ultimately an operators strike in Boston that shut down telephone service that ultimately