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Title: Wooden Pyramid Phone
Post by: FABphones on July 02, 2021, 03:34:15 AM

Screenshots taken from the online auction.

Doesn't appear to have a makers mark.

Title: Re: Wooden Pyramid Phone
Post by: FABphones on July 02, 2021, 03:36:55 AM

Screenshot of underneath, and seller description.

Title: Re: Wooden Pyramid Phone
Post by: david@london on July 02, 2021, 05:02:44 AM

Just a guess, but maybe a one-off fabrication, with wooden switch-hook, AE dial + handset?
Letters/numbers appear to be applied transfers/decals, over-varnished?

Title: Re: Wooden Pyramid Phone
Post by: Jim Stettler on July 02, 2021, 08:10:35 AM

I saw this auction, My thought was it could of been made by Paul Nelson Industries or a similar company.

Basically small batch designer telephone.
Just a guess,
Jim

Title: Re: Wooden Pyramid Phone
Post by: paul-f on July 03, 2021, 12:51:26 AM

I have owned and sold several over the years, including the model with attached lamp. I don't recall seeing any maker identification, but did find a reference on page 14 of this catalog in the TCI Library:

https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/search?q=%22the+telephone+store%22 (https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/search?q=%22the+telephone+store%22)

Title: Re: Wooden Pyramid Phone
Post by: FABphones on July 03, 2021, 01:59:20 AM

Quote from: paul-f on July 03, 2021, 12:51:26 AM
...a reference on page 14 of this catalog in the TCI Library:

https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/search?q=%22the+telephone+store%22 (https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/search?q=%22the+telephone+store%22)

Thanks for adding the link Paul. That little sales catalogue is really worth a look through. Telephone models I have seen before and plenty that I haven't.

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Here's what it had to say about the Pyramid telephone:
'#8070 WOODEN PYRAMID The Egyptian look is "IN''. This phone provides a focal point for the new decorator look'.

Title: Re: Wooden Pyramid Phone
Post by: paul-f on July 03, 2021, 12:34:51 PM

Quote from: FABphones on July 03, 2021, 01:59:20 AM
Thanks for adding the link Paul. That little sales catalogue is really worth a look through. Telephone models I have seen before and plenty that I haven't.

You're welcome. An interesting "some day" project would be to annotate some of the retail catalogs of that era to note the manufacturers of the phones listed. This catalog includes Teleconcepts, Northern Electric, DecoTel/ATC, ITT, Telcer, AE, North/Ericsson, and others.

Title: Re: Wooden Pyramid Phone
Post by: 280Parka on July 04, 2021, 08:34:18 PM

Wasn't that about the time when the King Tut exhibit was touring through the US?

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