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Keystone Telephone Co. dial desk set

1915
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Keystone TelephoneKeystone Telephone1901–1945Incorporated in 1900 by U.S. Representative Robert H. Foerderer, a leather industrialist who had won the grand prize at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Keystone operated as Philadelphia's independent alternative to Bell, making it the last major American city with two competing telephone companies. Because it had fewer exchanges, Keystone used shorter 5-digit phone numbers and advertised itself as "the fastest telephone in Philadelphia." Most businesses kept both a Bell and a Keystone phone on their desks. Keystone is credited as the first phone system to install all wires underground rather than on overhead poles. Bell acquired the company for $13.4 million in 1944, ending service on September 17, 1945. · Candlesticks, American · Source/via: Pete D'Acosta (website)
Keystone Telephone Co. dial desk set

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Fantastic Keystone of Philadelphia dial desk set. American Electric was the sole manufacturer of Keystone, Philadelphia and was considered a very strong competitor to the Western Electric Bell telephones, expecially their dial telephones, because Bell did not acquire Automatic Electric Company until 1916 and did not introduce a dial candlestick until 1919. This is a very rare telephone. Also has a marked, Keystone receiver.
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