Posted 10 years ago
resistor301
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a two box Kellogg about three feet tall. I grew up using this phone and if I were in front of it right now I could call you with it. Dad sent in to Ma Bell in the 60's to have the rotary dial put in. It's the best dial system I have seen, three wire input with ringer and voice sharing a common. I'm certainly no authority so pardon me. I have not opened the top box so I don't know much about the magneto yet, it works though. jpg size limits here may have chopped off the top view of the main incoming connectors, their good looking multi taps. The wire taps under the magneto box intrigue me. Were they an early form of daisy chain. Where do you think this phone was used. I have been told it was a store phone. I have family history that this phone was in use in Eldorado Ill. at my grand mothers general store. was it a pay phone. Is that what the lower taps were used for. Did the clerk have to be pushing a button when the customer picked up the handset after pay for use. what's it worth to insure, should it be restored. I will preserve it and plan on using it.
I would need more photo's of the inside magneto box to answer your questions. The two boxer looks to be a Kellogg manufactured around 1910. The wire taps as you call them are terminals and the left two are for the tie down for your receiver cord. the right two terminals are for battery wires. since the phone has been converted the wires have been changed. This phone could have been used in a home or general store, normally not for public use. I have seen this type of phone that had a coin collector attached to the side and was used as a payphone.
my title is what's stamped on the mouth piece so I know it's a Kellogg. I found it in the "1909 - Magneto Tel Sets Bulletin 38". It says there it's a three or four bar generator. My phone has no lightening arr-ester unless its in the upper box. When I get back to it I will open up the top box. Thanks for your input.