Western Electric No. 51AL Reproduction Candlestick Telephone Antique Phones Shell – The metal body

Shell – The metal body has been stripped down and the brass body professionally buffed back to a beautiful shine

Shell – The metal body has been stripped down and sandblasted using a glass grit media andpainted in a semi-gloss black finish

Base – The base is disassembled and sand blasted then wrapped with super soft brown felt to ensure it does not damage the table it proudly sits on

Base – The base is completely stripped of all its components and sandblasted clean

Western Electric No. 51AL Reproduction Candlestick Telephone Antique Phones Shell – The metal bodyReproduction 51AL black dial candlestick with modern network ringer. Almon Strowger filed his patent for the dial in 1891 and by the early part of the century, the Automatic Electric Company's dial exchanges were being implemented by independent telephone companies across the US. Western Electric had done some work on dial systems prior to 1919, but it was ultimately an operators strike in Boston that shut down telephone service that ultimately