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Model: Candlestick Telephone
Made by: Various
From: 1870s-1920s
Materials: wood, brass, nickel plating, etc.
Men working with candlesticks telephones at Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone in Washington DC date unknown

Men with sticks, courtesy old-picture.com

farr candlestick antique telephone

From Farr Telephone Catalog 15

Notes

The candlestick (officially 'upright desk stand') phone market around 1900 was very fragmented and competitive - a lot of manufacturers made these phones, including: