Fancy Ericsson 'Pulpit' Phone
L.M. EricssonL.M. EricssonTelefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, commonly known as Ericsson, is a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company headquartered in Stockholm. Ericsson has been a major contributor to the development of the telecommunications industry and is one of the leaders in 5G. Ericsson has over 57,000 granted patents, and it is the inventor of Bluetooth technology.Read more on Wikipedia → · celebrity, wood, Swedish
About This Phone
One of two fancy walnut Ericsson 'Pulpit' phones presumably made for the royal castle in Oslo in the 1880s. The marquetry on the writing desk features the Swedish-Norwegian Union coat of arms, representing the personal union between the two kingdoms that existed until 1905. It features a walnut case, a rare early "helical" microphone, and a three-part inductor for the ringing mechanism. The cabinets for these royal phones were manufactured by cabinet-maker G. Malm and differ from the standard telephones primarily by the pulpit top featuring marquetry inlays of various kinds of wood, and complemented with thin strips in silver.
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