Allen-Hussey Co. Bee Hive Potbelly
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Whitman & Couch Manufacturers potbelly desk set
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S.H. Couch Co.S.H. Couch Co.The firm S. H. Couch, often known as simply Couch, was a Quincy, Massachusetts, manufacturing company founded circa 1901 in Boston after the dissolution of Whitman & Couch, a partnership, and a second entity known as Couch & Seeley. S. H. Couch launched during and participated in the turn of the century Independent Telephone Movement which ensued after the expiration of the foundational Bell telephone patents in 1894. The company specialized in electrical devices including telephones, intercoms, and fire alarm systems. S. H. Couch had offices in Boston and in Chicago by 1907.Read more on Wikipedia → · Potbellies, Candlesticks, American · Source/via: Pete D'Acosta (website)
About This Phone
Very rare Whitman & Couch potbelly with marked transmitter, steerhorn switch hook and correct Couch outside terminal long pole receiver (discolored but no damage). This is another variation in the Couch & Seeley, Whitman & Couch collection. I believe this candlestick has been renickled at some point in its past and has a reproduction baseplate underneath but overall a very rare telephone. Please see the scan of an original article about this telephone in the October 23rd, 1897 issue of The Electrical World magazine, showing this portable desk set. Also a catalog image from 1897.
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