Mystery Phone
An Ontario reader has sent in a photograph of a mystery phone for us all to try to identify. In the above photographs you can see the guts of the phone and the outside of the case as well. Normally the bells are set on the outside as you can see by the small photograph of the Western Electric Company 1020B model. Our reader's telephone is possibly a field model, judging by the leather handle. The transmitter or receiver, possibly a candlestick, would have been connected by the wires shown. This allowed the bulky part of the phone to remain off the desktop. But if it is a field telephone then there would have been just a simple handset, not one with a base. I do not know, but if you do then give me an e-mail.
