Stromberg Carlson 1178 Antique Phones Automatic Electric were the first

Automatic Electric were the first North American company to manufacture a self contained deskset

die cut dial card and acetate

The shell is then professionally painted in a high gloss using Polane

long-ago competitors Western Electric

Stromberg Carlson 1178 Antique Phones Automatic Electric were the firstVery rare Stromberg Carlson 1178 dial cradle deskset. subset required. Unlike Western Electric and Northern Electric which had very close ties to the Bell Telephone operating companies, Stromberg Carlson was an independent telephone manufacturer that supplied telephones to a variety of non Bell telephone companies. During the 1920s they introduced the 1177 and 1178 deskphones. These phones were made of metal, and like most phones of the era, they