c. 1950s Automatic Electric Three-Slot Payphone drawers MM - 4521 - 082823

MM - 4521 - 082823

On the bottom of this decoy you will find the original factory stamp

crate and adding a distressed frame

troops spent six months in combat on and around the islands of the Guadalcanal

The leather has developed some weathering and patina over its life

c. 1950s Automatic Electric Three-Slot Payphone drawers MM - 4521 - 082823Antique rotary payphone manufactured by Automatic Electric Co. (1901 1983), Chicago, IL. This particular phone was owned by GTE Ameritech, a Midwest provider for Regional Bell Operating Company (bought out and owned by SBC Communications from 1999 2006 and then AT&T from 2006 onwards.). It served the Royalton (Franklin County, southern Illinois) 618 area for an undisclosed period of time; likely up until the early 1980s when GTE became defunct. Due to