Catalogue Status

Research in Progress

Description

Black telephone with large block base and stepped foot, crank on one side. Handset resting on top held by stand with two prongs, straight black cord.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Manufacturer

L.M. Ericsson Company, founded 1876

Credit Line

Museum purchase from the Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund

Medium

Metal, plastic

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection

Product Design and Decorative Arts Department

manufactured in

Belgium

ca. 1920

Type

appliances & tools

Decorative Arts

Telephone

Accession Number

1994-73-1