The Telephones Page

About Antique Telephones

People started collecting phones shortly after Alexander Graham Bell patented them in 1876. Key varieties include early wood wall phones, candlesticks, and rotary dial ‘desk sets’ made of bakelite, metal, and plastic (e.g. 202, 302, 500, Trimline and Princess). Key U.S. manufacturers include Western Electric, Automatic Electric, Kellogg, and Stromberg Carlson. Payphones and signs are also popular.

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St. Petersburg Times, FL - Jan 5, 2008
Unique items include antique phones that are rewired for today's use, one of the Southeast's largest collections of Civil War weapons and memorabilia, ...

Couple restore family's 120-year-old Krueger home in Stuart

TCPalm, FL - Jan 5, 2008
Her husband's antique telephone collection is placed throughout the downstairs, along with period photographs of the family, the home's original layout and ...

Fagioli invades Davao

Sun.Star, Philippines - Jan 2, 2008
Another surprise is that they have a working vintage telephone. Now that's what I call a real coffee table conversation piece in all its glory. ...

Remembering The Christmas Past

VillageSoup Belfast,  USA - Dec 20, 2007
Also trying to sit in a little antique telephone chair and stand combo to make a call is not too smart neither. This delicate piece of furniture was in our ...

Four Walls Surveys the Prolific Career of Lenore Simon

Art Daily - Dec 19, 2007
JKL5, a large scratchboard from 1948, features a highly abstracted vintage telephone over which a blackened screw-in light bulb hangs with seductively ...

Telephones on eBay

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Automatic Electric Strowger Dial Oak Wall Phone

$860.00 (12 Bids)
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One Of A Kind Custom Made Candlestick Telephone 1897 We

$760.99 (13 Bids)
Ends: Sunday Jan-13 7:02:00 PST
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L.m. Ericsson "e-switchook" Candlestick Phone

$676.00 (11 Bids)
Ends: Thursday 19:00 PST
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Antique Western Electric 553a Hotel Wall Telephone

$536.00 (20 Bids)
Ends: Monday 17:30 PST
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Western Electric Candlestick Telephone Phone And Subset

$499.00 (5 Bids)
Ends: Sunday 19:00 PST
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A Restored Antique Western Electric 3 Slot Payphone

$450.00 (1 Bid)
Ends: Wednesday 17:00 PST
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Early Stromberg Carlson Candlestick Telephone Oil Can

$380.00 (7 Bids)
Ends: Sunday 22:20 PST
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Holtzer Cabot "exclamation Switchook" Candlestick Phone

$355.00 (8 Bids)
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Western Electric 653 Dial Wall Telephone Phone Super!!!

$306.00 (19 Bids)
Ends: Sunday 18:45 PST
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Ackerman Boland 6-button Candlestick Telephone

$305.53 (8 Bids)
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Frontier Telephone Co. "f-switchook" Dial Candlestick

$305.00 (9 Bids)
Ends: Thursday 19:15 PST
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Three Slot Pay Phone Payphone Pay Telephone (works)

$262.89 (19 Bids)
Ends: Sunday 16:16 PST
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Coal Miner's Mine Telephone - Western Electric. 1920's

$260.99 (7 Bids)
Ends: Thursday 19:15 PST
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Early Long Pole Telephone Receiver

$260.00 (6 Bids)
Ends: Saturday Jan-12 8:25:37 PST
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Vintage Red Rotary Pay Phone-not A Replica! Authentic!

$255.00 (9 Bids)
Ends: Friday 19:51 PST
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Art Deco Automatic Electric 50 Telephone Phone ~look~

$249.00 (9 Bids)
Ends: Sunday 18:30 PST
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Chicago Woodbox Phone Rare Immaculate And Dated 1901

$222.50 (7 Bids)
Ends: Sunday 22:23 PST
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Vintage Loeffler Candlestick Telephone

$202.50 (3 Bids)
Ends: Thursday 10:33 PST
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Rare Monarch Step-base Candlestick Telephone

$200.00 (8 Bids)
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Western Electric 302 Lucy Phone -classic 1945 Telephone

$197.20 (24 Bids)
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Early 1880 Ornate Walnut String Phone W/mount And Bell

$187.50 (5 Bids)
Ends: Sunday 19:03 PST
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Vintage Oak-case Wall Phone

$185.00 (1 Bid)
Ends: Saturday 11:07 PST
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Antique Candlestick Pay Coin-op Telephone

$177.50 (3 Bids)
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Rare Antique Kellogg Grabaphone Rotary Old Telephone

$168.00 (7 Bids)
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Rewired Antique Dial Candlestick Telephone, Phone Works

$167.50 (14 Bids)
Ends: Sunday 19:10 PST
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3 Slot Automatic Electric Chrome Payphone Pay Phone

$162.50 (8 Bids)
Ends: Sunday 18:23 PST
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American Union Telephone Co. Candlestick Phone

$156.51 (16 Bids)
Ends: Thursday 18:45 PST
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Antique Rochester Telephone Hubcap Sign

$152.50 (8 Bids)
Ends: Sunday 14:17 PST
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Old Western Electric Telephone 102 With Ringer Box.

$150.00 (9 Bids)
Ends: Saturday 19:00 PST
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Antique Western Electric 302 Telephone .works ...rings

$150.00 (5 Bids)
Ends: Monday 19:35 PST
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Western Electric 354 Telephone Antique Wall Phone (302)

$150.00 (12 Bids)
Ends: Thursday 18:39 PST
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Antique Oak Coffin Cracraft-leich Telephone No Reserve!

$146.50 (11 Bids)
Ends: Sunday 17:52 PST
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Vintage Western Electric Cast 139a Payphone "l" Bracket

$138.39 (6 Bids)
Ends: Saturday 14:48 PST
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Early Kellogg Wooden Wall Telephone

$136.05 (3 Bids)
Ends: Sunday 14:24 PST
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Vintage Western Electric O.s.t. Receiver W/ Cord - Pony

$132.27 (4 Bids)
Ends: Saturday 14:36 PST
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Antique Candlestick Phone

$131.50 (9 Bids)
Ends: Saturday 13:59 PST
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Western Electric Hotel Telephone Model 553a 2ab Dial

$128.49 (2 Bids)
Ends: Friday Jan-11 2:46:48 PST
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Western Electric 302 Metal Art Deco Antique Telephone

$127.50 (16 Bids)
Ends: Friday 20:00 PST
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Western Electric 202 Telephone With 684 Subset

$127.47 (4 Bids)
Ends: Sunday 14:15 PST
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Western Electric 202 Telephone Flawless W/ Orignal Box

$112.50 (3 Bids)
Ends: Thursday 19:13 PST
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We Org. Stick Phone--early

$112.49 (2 Bids)
Ends: Tuesday 18:00 PST
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Western Electric 20-b/al Candlestick Phone 1904

$107.50 (4 Bids)
Ends: Saturday 12:18 PST
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Antique Western Electric Wall Telephone Hand Crank Oak

$103.77 (6 Bids)
Ends: Wednesday 13:57 PST
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Bell Telephone Kiss And Side Scrow With Pony.

$103.52 (3 Bids)
Ends: Friday 10:43 PST
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Antique Oak Wall Crank Style Telephone

$103.50 (20 Bids)
Ends: Saturday 20:10 PST
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Western Electric 500 Rotary Dial Telephone Phone Aqua!

$102.51 (3 Bids)
Ends: Sunday 19:00 PST
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Antique "the North Electric" Tiger Oak Crank Telephone

$102.50 (8 Bids)
Ends: Wednesday 13:25 PST
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Space Age Telstar Telephone Phone Vintage Eames Era Mod

$102.50 (7 Bids)
Ends: Monday 19:45 PST
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Turquoise Light Blue Rotary Dial Telephone Desk Phone

$102.50 (14 Bids)
Ends: Friday 18:56 PST
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1976 Itt Red Telephone Vintage Mint Phone

$101.99 (5 Bids)
Ends: Sunday 20:00 PST
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Automatic Electric Candlestick Telephone

$100.00 (3 Bids)
Ends: Sunday 18:14 PST
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Western Electric 302 Telephone Phone Red Pekin Peking

$100.00 (3 Bids)
Ends: Sunday 17:32 PST
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Rare Vintage Red Telephone Bag Handbag Purse

$100.00 (1 Bid)
Ends: Sunday Jan-13 7:49:56 PST
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Stromberg - Carlson Antique Candlestick Phone

$100.00 (1 Bid)
Ends: Friday 13:47 PST
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8009: Vega "tu-ba-phone" Five String Banjo.

$100.00
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W A L N U T Brown Northern Electric "nu" Phone No1

$99.99 (1 Bid)
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Vintage Edwards 1872 School Telephone Intercom

$99.99 (1 Bid)
Ends: Thursday 19:26 PST
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A.e. Swing A Way-oak-org. Triple Marked-look

$99.00 (1 Bid)
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