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Black plastic Bell and Western Telephone with a phone number. Area code 617 744-0440. Telephone cable attached.
telephones
plastic (organic material)
metal
Telephone
"BELL SYSTEM / MADE BY WESTERN ELECTRIC" (Stamped in the plastic)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Unknown
5 1/2 x 5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.3087
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