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Candlestick telephones, also known to collectors as 'upright desk stands', gained popularity in the 1890s as the telephone became a must-have business apparatus. Early non-dial brass candlesticks were typically nickel-plated, but by the 1920s most candlesticks were painted black. The rarest and most valuable varieties (depending on condition) are the Strowger dial and early potbelly-shaped (non-dial) candlesticks.

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