The household phone in the 1980s was an immovable, shared appliance, often a beige or brown rotary unit wall-mounted in the ...
Telephones in the ’20s typically had a separate mouthpiece and receiver. The design was known as the candlestick design, and newer versions had a dial on the front, allowing a person to call numbers ...
About 1,000 telephones are to be auctioned from the personal collection of a man "fanatical" about the devices. Featuring designs spanning decades, the lots focus on iconic models from the 1930s ...