Art Deco Automatic Electric AE40 antique telephone

Art Deco AE40 Automatic Electric antique desk telephone

Up for auction is a Automatic Electric Type 40 desk telephone. These art deco Bakelite desk phones were from an age when style was king and function was always reliable. It is an authentic, working collectible antique from the 1940's era cleaned, polished and restored.

The entire phone was completely disassembled and every part was cleaned and/or polished and tested for good working order. The Automatic Electric dial was sent to a professional for calibration and reconditioning. The metro-style (numbers + letters) porcelain dial plate is in excellent shape. The logo card in the dial center is new and on good card stock. This phone features chromed cradle plungers and a hand-polished brass fingerwheel and center ring. All are in excellent condition. The cradle grab bar has been refinished with tough satin black powder coat.

The phone's insides were thoroughly cleaned - all parts were scrubbed and/or polished. The phone's baseplate (bottom plate) is in good shape. The original decal is in very good condition and a new rubber base ring was added. The attached original schematic is in very good condition. The phone's Bakelite shell and the handset were both buffed to a high gloss.

The black cloth handset cord and wall cord are both new. The wall cord has the modular plug so it is ready to plug 'n play on today's phone jacks. The brass ringer bells have been polished and the phone works fine and rings loud and clear with that old-timey sound that only a dual-toned ringer can do.

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Many, many hours were spent in the restoration of this phone. It is a functioning piece of nostalgia, a great conversation piece and a real beauty. $175 reserve.

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