Telephone, 1st-Class Cabin
Item Number: 19365 $895.00Order Details
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Product Description
“You can telephone to any part of the world whilst at sea.” Can you imagine being in the middle of the North Atlantic and sitting in your cabin on an ocean liner talking to people back home? It must have seemed like the height of modern technology in the 1930s. While you might have been able to call any part of the world, but it didn’t come cheap!
Made of cream-colored, heavy-duty Bakelite, the phone has a pyramid shape and quite a bit of heft to keep it from tipping over in rough seas. Identical phones can be seen in the archival photos in two of the ship’s suites. This phone has the number B106 written on the bottom, and this may be the cabin number it came from. It has been adapted to allow it to work in your home with a modern connector, but it can only receive calls. I think it’s fantastic to hear this ring again! It is in excellent condition with only the slightest bit of cracking on the handle of the receiver. One of the nicest phone I have seen from the Mary. SA
