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Lot #64: Kellogg Box Telephone

Sold for

$18.00

Time Remaining:

Closed

End time:

Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 8:15:00 PM

Purported to be the first payphone in Fitzwilliam, this relic is in rough shape and silenced now, but has much to share. The innards give us the history and with some TLC this phone will still hold sway over any setting and prompt plenty of new conversations!  Patent application (APRIL 1907) info and wiring sheet attached and intact!  Dovetailed oak. 
The Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company was founded in 1897 by Milo G. Kellogg after Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patents expired in 1893 and 1894. Oak Wall Phone with Magneto crank. The model shown here dates from 1907, when the receiver terminals were first hidden inside the cabinet. Many rural areas required use of a magneto crank and battery to generate the current needed to summon the operator or ring another telephone, and so this style of phone continued to be used in farming communities for many decades. In larger towns and cities, central offices eventually supplied the current necessary to operate connected telephones, making magneto cranks and internal batteries unnecessary. Many antique phone retailers reconfigure the crank so that, when turned, the phones own bells will ring.
Like Bell, Kellogg was a voracious inventor, with about 150 patents to his name (125 of them were granted on October 17, 1899).
Source: telephones.newenglandhistorywalks.

Condition: fair
Measurements: 23"L x 10"W

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Only Available Pickup Date/Time: Sun, June 23 2024 12:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Category A: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Category B: 01:00 PM - 01:45 PM
Category C: 01:45 PM - 03:00 PM
Category D: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Category E: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

Pickup Location: West Lake Road, Fitzwilliam, NH, 03447 Fitzwilliam, NH, 03447 View Map (opens in new window)


Bidding Starts:

Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 9:00:00 PM UTC

Bidding Ends:

Friday, June 21, 2024 between 12:00:00 AM and 12:26:00 AM UTC

See individual items for exact closing times.

Bid Date

Bid Amount

Jun 21, 2024, 12:08:56 AM

$18.00

Jun 21, 2024, 12:08:48 AM

$15.00

Jun 21, 2024, 12:08:49 AM

$14.00

Jun 20, 2024, 9:40:01 PM

$11.00

Jun 18, 2024, 11:43:24 PM

$10.00

Jun 18, 2024, 11:43:25 PM

$10.00

Jun 18, 2024, 11:19:02 PM

$6.00

Jun 18, 2024, 11:19:02 PM

$5.00

Jun 16, 2024, 12:59:32 PM

$1.00

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