Telephone Collecting: Seven Decades of Design by Kate Dooner FLEWVELLAN

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Telephone Collecting: Seven Decades of Design by Kate Dooner FLEWVELLANTable of Contents The styles of the telephones are often overlooked for their functionality. Everyone has one. But here, in text and over 250 color photographs, a history of the design of the telephone is presented from Art Deco years to novelty phones of the 1980s. Once the upright "candlestick" telephone was replaced by a desk set "cradle" telephone, its designs became diverse and important in a competitive industry. In this new book, the largest