O.K. I give, What is it ?

[Dan/Panther]

The auction says it's a 1950 metal bodied phone.
It appears to be a 302 with an AE dial. The wall Wart has me stumped.
D/P

[Wallphone]

Maybe they were using it for an intercom with another phone. Can you see what voltage the wall wart is?
Dougpav

[LarryInMichigan]

I don't think that it is an AE dial.  It has the same finger wheel as the unmarked dial in my Connecticut toaster phone.

Larry

[teka-bb]

Maybe used as a theatre prop ?

[bingster]

I vote for some sort of intercom working through the house electrical wiring, too.  The dial is odd. The fingerstop is in the AE position, but the center, with it's screw is very strange.  I think Kellogg dials had a center screw, but I don't think it's Kellogg, either.  Interesting phone.

[LarryInMichigan]

Look at my post about the toaster phone (http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=2488.0).  Yo will see the same finger wheel.  The dial on the toaster phone is definitely not AE.  I assumed that it was from Connecticut since it was not WE, AE, SC, North, or Kellogg.

It is entirely possible that the transformer is only connected because someone didn't know any better or thought that it would be a good idea to connect it.  People do all sorts of things.

Larry

[Dan/Panther]

It's 24 volts.
D/P

[teka-bb]

It's 24 volts.
D/P

So it will ring the phone when you connect the wall wart to the power.

That's why I think it could be used in a theatre. A switch operated be a technician makes the phone ring.