French telephone Société Industrielle des Téléphones ca 1910

[Matilo Telephones]

Does somebody here know more about this one?

This one came into my possesion somewhat by accident. I had the opportunity to trade it with somebody.
Although I normally collect dial phones, I could not resist the chance to inspect one of these up close.

Similar or even identical to a Marty type 1910. I suppose it dates from around the same period.
This one is made by Société Industrielle des Téléphones, presumably around 1910.
No additional markings inside. No date on the coil. Nothing on the underside.

[unbeldi]

Yes, another version of the Marty Type 1910.  At some time these were produced by many  manufacturers.

[Jack Ryan]

This one is made by Société Industrielle des Téléphones, presumably around 1910.

Société Industrielle des Téléphones was an operating company (service provider) so that phone itself could have been made by the original manufacturer or one of the licensed manufacturers.

Jack

[Matilo Telephones]

Thanks Jack, but according to the Wikipedia article it was both a manufacturer and telephone operator/service provider until nationalisation of the telephone networks in 1889 and that they concentrated on telephone production after that.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_industrielle_des_t%C3%A9l%C3%A9phones (in French)

Would "Type 1910" be the correct designation of this model?

[unbeldi]

Thanks Jack, but according to the Wikipedia article it was both a manufacturer and telephone operator/service provider until nationalisation of the telephone networks in 1889 and that they concentrated on telephone production after that.

That is pretty much what I recall from my readings.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_industrielle_des_t%C3%A9l%C3%A9phones (in French)

Would "Type 1910" be the correct designation of this model?

I believe that is the most common designation.

[unbeldi]

I think finding an early handset telephone from the Society is nice, even though this one was not their original design. The company was probably chiefly responsible for developing and popularizing the combined handset.  The company's first chief engineer was the actual inventor of the handset when he was still working in  New York for a Western Union company.  In Paris, Brown introduced the handset for use in the first stock markets.

Note that the original name was Society Generale, later changed to 'Industrielle', probably because the French disowned all private operating companies, to run a state monopoly, with the official intent to provide fair competition to all.

PS: of course, the real reason probably was the regulators couldn't keep their fingers out of the 'money printing press' that  they recognized.   So they simply added telephony to the same law for telegraphy that was already in place in France since the 1830s or so.