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DeVeau TelephoneDeVeau TelephoneDeVeau Telephone Manufacturing Company operated from 468-488 18th Street in Brooklyn, New York, producing a wide range of telephone equipment from the 1890s through the early 1920s. Their products included rope shaft and tapered shaft candlestick phones, multi-button desk sets, the "Automatic Switchless" wall telephone, and the "InterTalk" wall intercom system. A 6-button desk set model was patented in 1899. DeVeau had a business relationship with Stanley & Patterson, a New York electrical supply firm that distributed their products. The Smithsonian holds examples of their phones and a 1911 trade catalog. · Wood, American · Source/via: New Hampshire Telephone Museum (website)
About This Phone
This extra wide phone took three wet cell batteries. With long pole receiver.
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