Western Electric A1 - Black shsdchildproduct Cords – The phone has

Cords – The phone has been outfitted with a brand-new colour matched cloth covered curly ivory handset cord that we make in house on the same type of equipment originally used by the phone companies

The dial is a number 6 showing almost no signs of wear on the red alphanumeric dial plate

We have added a modular cord to faciliate the connection to the wall jack

The Western Electric and Northern Electric 102/202 series telephones were the first widely distributed phones which adopted the use of a single handset rather than a separate transmitter and receiver

Western Electric A1 - Black shsdchildproduct Cords – The phone hasHistory In the 1920s, developments in anti sidetone circuitry and non positional transmitters, which worked in any orientation, permitted Western Electric to develop a handset model free of these problems. The resulting E1 handset was ready for production in 1927. This handset was paired with a base that was essentially a candlestick with a shortened neck of approximately one inch in height, topped with a new cradle for the handset. The cradle