Salvadore Dali Lobster Telephone: White Version

The GPO 232 telephone was produced between 1934 and 1957, though it remained a staple of British households and offices well into the 1960s and 70s. Many featured the iconic "cheese drawer" at the base for pull-out instruction cards. The GPO 232 was incredibly durable because it was made of Bakelite (and later Diakon for the ivory/colored models).

Lobster Telephone is a Surrealist object, created by Salvador Dalí in 1936 for the English poet Edward James (1907–1984), a leading collector of surrealist art. In his 1942 book The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, Dalí wrote teasingly of his demand to know why, when he asked for a grilled lobster in a restaurant, he was never presented with a boiled telephone.