Is this a North Handset?

[Doug Rose]

Who is the maker of the Handset on this North? I have never seen a North like it....Doug

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-North-Electric-Straight-Line-Black-Telephone/224300467245?hash=item343959842d:g:3uEAAOSwJq9f7pJD

[kleenax]

Who is the maker of the Handset on this North? I have never seen a North like it....Doug

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-North-Electric-Straight-Line-Black-Telephone/224300467245?hash=item343959842d:g:3uEAAOSwJq9f7pJD

German handset, used on European desksets.

[Doug Rose]

thanks Ray

[countryman]

It doesn't seem I can find a common German phone with anything similar?
Fuld had handsets with tapered ends but they weren't distinctively winged like that. I thought of Belgian or Dutch models but a comparison on matilo.eu was negative. Ericsson maybe?

[Jack Ryan]

It doesn't seem I can find a common German phone with anything similar?
Fuld had handsets with tapered ends but they weren't distinctively winged like that. I thought of Belgian or Dutch models but a comparison on matilo.eu was negative. Ericsson maybe?

I haven't seen it before either - doesn't look German. It's not like any Ericsson handset I've seen either.

Bit of a mystery.

Jack

[tubaman]

I haven't seen it before either - doesn't look German. It's not like any Ericsson handset I've seen either.

Bit of a mystery.

Jack

Agree. Perhaps worth asking the seller to take the caps off and show the insides and inserts?

[LarryInMichigan]

Many years ago, I bought a phone with what is probably the same handset.  There was a discussion about it here: forum link.

Larry

[countryman]

It looks like you solved the mystery. If I understand Paul-F right in the other thread it's a Holtzer-Cabot handset. Seems to be really rare, but is it collectible/valuable, or just an oddity?