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1930-1940 Telephone, Thomson-Houston Telephone Company
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
1930-1940 Telephone, Thomson-houston Telephone Company
Measures: H 32cm, D 15cm.
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco More Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
Lucite "Airplane" Telephone
Located in North Miami, FL
A most unusual phone of lucite in the form of an airplane.
the bright color combination compliments the whimsical nature of this piece.
A great piece of pop art .
Category
20th Century Desk Accessories
Antique Brass Telephone
Located in Pasadena, TX
Antique brass telephone
Candlestick telephone with rotary dial and desk stand in brass
Category
Vintage 1920s Industrial More Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Space Age "Telstar" Telephone
By AT&T
Located in Hanover, MA
Smoked translucent acrylic cylindrical roll-top cased executive desk phone with retractable cord
Category
Vintage 1970s American Space Age Desk Accessories
Mid-Century French Telephone Table
Located in Austin, TX
French Mid-Century Modern period telephone table on a chrome pedestal base. Ebonized wood lacquered
Category
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Chrome
Black 232 GPO Telephone
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original, black 232 GPO telephone. Braided handset cord and integral drawer. Fully refurbished
Category
Mid-20th Century English Art Deco More Desk Accessories
Materials
Bakelite
Black 332 GPO Telephone
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original, black 332 GPO telephone with call exchange. Braided handset cord, chrome button and
Category
Mid-20th Century English Art Deco More Desk Accessories
Materials
Bakelite
Black 332 GPO Telephone
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original, black 332 GPO telephone with 3 chrome buttons ‘Secret, Normal, Engaged for Secret
Category
Mid-20th Century English Art Deco More Desk Accessories
Materials
Bakelite
Mickey Mouse Telephone, 1980s
By Walt Disney Productions
Located in Hamburg, DE
Cult Mickey Mouse corded telephone with retro dial from the 1980s. Original Walt Disney and still
Category
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Desk Sets
Materials
Plastic
1930s Catalin Gold Mono-phone Telephone
Located in Van Nuys, CA
1930s White Catalin (colored Bakelite) Mono-phone Telephone with gold plate accents and a wonderful
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Desk Accessories
Antique H.T. Cushman Betumal Oak Telephone Stand Small Child
s Desk
By H.T. Cushman Manufacturing Company
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique H.T. Cushman Betumal Oak Telephone Stand Small Child's Desk. Item features a pull out seat
Category
Antique Early 1900s Arts and Crafts Desks
Materials
Glass, Oak
Telephone Chair with Table Combo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Telephone Chair with Table Combo, Circa 1900.
Category
Early 20th Century French Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Original GPO Black Bakelite Telephone
By GPO ( General Post Office )
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original GPO Telephone. Black bakelite with integral mirrored drawer and braided handset cord
Category
Vintage 1930s English Art Deco More Desk Accessories
Materials
Bakelite
Bang
Olufsen BeoCom 1401 Telephone
By Bang
Olufsen
Located in Chattanooga, TN
This BeoCom 1401 telephone is a time capsule gem, and still has the original, unused, paper address
Category
1990s Danish Modern Desk Sets
Materials
Aluminum
Modern One-Piece Ericofon Telephone, Cream
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Cream, modern one piece Ericofon telephone created by the Ericsson Company of Sweden and
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern More Desk Accessories
Materials
Plastic
Original GPO Model 232F Black Bakelite Telephone
By GPO ( General Post Office )
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original GPO model 232F Telephone. Black bakelite with integral drawer and braided handset cord
Category
Vintage 1940s Desk Sets
Materials
Bakelite
Original GPO Model 332L Black Bakelite Telephone
By GPO ( General Post Office )
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original GPO model 332L Telephone. Black bakelite with integral drawer and braided handset cord
Category
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern More Desk Accessories
Materials
Bakelite
Original GPO Model 332L White Bakelite Telephone
By GPO ( General Post Office )
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original GPO model 332L Telephone. White bakelite with integral drawer and braided handset cord
Category
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern More Desk Accessories
Materials
Bakelite
Mid-Century Design Telephone by Tesla, 1970, Czechoslovakia
By Tesla
Located in Praha, CZ
Telephone by TESLA, in the 1970's, in Czechoslovakia.
Made of plastic and metal.
Fully functional
Category
Vintage 1970s Czech Mid-Century Modern More Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
Vintage Retro Rotary Victorian Style Horchow Sitel Telephone
Located in Plainview, NY
A retro rotary Victorian style original Horchow Sitel telephone hand painted in gold and Burgundy
Category
20th Century Italian Victorian More Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
Original GPO Model 162F 1934 Black Bakelite Telephone
By GPO ( General Post Office )
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original GPO model 162F Telephone. Black bakelite with enamelled figure dial.
Dimensions: H
Category
Vintage 1930s English Art Deco More Desk Accessories
Materials
Bakelite
Original Black Bakelite GPO Model 232L 1938 Telephone
By GPO ( General Post Office )
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original GPO model 232L Telephone. Black bakelite with integral drawer and braided handset cord
Category
Vintage 1930s English Art Deco More Desk Accessories
Materials
Bakelite
Original GPO Model 706L Telephone Full Working Order
By GPO ( General Post Office )
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original GPO model 706L telephone. Two-tone green with bell control switch at front
Category
Vintage 1960s English More Desk Accessories
Materials
Plastic
Original 1970s Model 746L Telephone Full Working Order
By GPO ( General Post Office )
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original, 1970s GPO model 746L telephone. Two-tone blue with bell control switch at front
Category
Vintage 1970s English More Desk Accessories
Materials
Plastic
Original GPO Model 162L Telephone Full Working Order
By GPO ( General Post Office )
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original GPO model 162L telephone. Black Bakelite with braided handset cord. Integral drawer and
Category
Vintage 1930s English Art Deco More Desk Accessories
Materials
Bakelite
Early 20th century swedish metal telephone by Rikstelefon
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Early 20th century swedish metal telephone by rikstelefon circa 1900.
Quite possibly early than
Category
Early 20th Century Swedish Edwardian Desk Sets
Materials
Metal
Antique Black Perspex Bakelite Pyramid 162 Telephone 1937
Located in London, GB
This is a rare GPO series 162 telephone, dated 1937 in black Perspex Bakelite and manufactured by
Category
Vintage 1930s English More Desk Accessories
Materials
Bakelite
1970s Unique telephone in a box
wine decanter covered in leather cowhide
By Deco-Tel 1
Located in San Diego, CA
Very cool boxed telephone in a walnut caze with leather cowhide, circa 1970s , the rotary telephone
Category
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Cowhide, Walnut
Mid Century White Ericsson Ericofon Cobra Rotary Dial Telephone
By Ericsson
Located in Van Nuys, CA
The Ericofon is a one-piece plastic telephone created by the Ericsson Company of Sweden and
Category
Vintage 1950s More Desk Accessories
Materials
Plastic
Original GPO Model 232L Black Bakelite Telephone Circa 1930
By GPO ( General Post Office )
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original GPO model 232L Telephone. Black bakelite with integral drawer and braided handset cord
Category
Vintage 1930s English Art Deco More Desk Accessories
Materials
Bakelite
Original 1970s GPO Model 746L Telephone Full Working Order
By GPO ( General Post Office )
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original, 1970s GPO model 746L telephone. Two-tone blue with bell control switch at front
Category
Vintage 1970s English More Desk Accessories
Materials
Plastic
Original 1951 GPO Model 332L Telephone Full Working Order
By GPO ( General Post Office )
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original GPO model 332L telephone. Black bakelite with braided handset cord. Integral drawer and
Category
Vintage 1950s English More Desk Accessories
Materials
Bakelite
Midcentury ITT Rotary Dial Desktop Telephone with Original Box
Located in San Diego, CA
Midcentury ITT rotary dial desktop telephone with original box, circa 1970s. Phone appears to have
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern More Desk Accessories
Materials
Plastic
Original Red Lacquered Gpo Model 706l Telephone Full Working Order
By GPO ( General Post Office )
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original red lacquered GPO model 706L telephone. Bell control switch at front.
Dimensions: H
Category
Vintage 1960s English More Desk Accessories
Materials
Plastic
Original 1970s Red GPO Model 746L Telephone Full Working Order
By GPO ( General Post Office )
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original, 1970s Red GPO model 746L Telephone. Bell control switch at front.
Dimensions: H
Category
Vintage 1970s English More Desk Accessories
Materials
Plastic
Italian Midcentury Red Plastic Siemens Auso Telephone, Mod. Rialto, 1960s
By Siemens
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian midcentury red plastic Siemens Auso telephone, mod. Rialto, 1960s
Siemens Auso telephone
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern More Desk Accessories
Materials
Plastic
Original GPO Model 332L Black Bakelite Telephone Full Working Order
By GPO ( General Post Office )
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original GPO model 332L Telephone. Black bakelite with integral drawer and braided handset cord
Category
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern More Desk Accessories
Materials
Bakelite
Original GPO Model 312L Black Bakelite Telephone Full Working Order
By GPO ( General Post Office )
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original GPO model 312L telephone. Black bakelite with integral drawer and braided handset cord
Category
Vintage 1950s English More Desk Accessories
Materials
Bakelite
Original GPO Model 332L Cream Bakelite Telephone Full Working Order
By GPO ( General Post Office )
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original GPO model 332L Telephone. Ivory bakelite with integral drawer and braided handset cord
Category
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern More Desk Accessories
Materials
Bakelite
Vintage Dutch Bakelite and Metal Rotary Dial Telephone, circa 1950s
Located in San Francisco, CA
Metal body with a Bakelite rotary dial telephone, circa 1950s. Might possible work if hooked up
Category
Mid-20th Century Dutch More Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Red Western Electric Desktop Telephone, 1970s
By Western Electric
Located in Lafayette, IN
Vintage 1970s Western Electric Desktop Telephone. Phone features rotary dial, white numerals and
Category
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern More Desk Accessories
Materials
Plastic
Ericsson Cobra / Ericofon, analog telephone in light green plastic. 1960s.
Located in København, Copenhagen
Ericsson Cobra / Ericofon, analog telephone in light green plastic.
1960s.
In perfect condition
Category
Vintage 1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Desk Sets
Materials
Plastic
Vintage Bell System Pink "The Princess Phone" Rotary Dial Telephone
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Bell System Pink "The Princess Phone" Rotary Dial telephone. Circa Mid to late 20th Century
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Desk Sets
Materials
Plastic
Original 1951 GPO Model 332 Telephone with Original Button Features
By GPO ( General Post Office )
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original 1951 GPO model 332 telephone. "Code, Listen Before Ringing" Feature. Original nylon
Category
Vintage 1960s English Art Deco More Desk Accessories
Materials
Bakelite
Original, Rare GPO Model 232 Chinese Red Bakelite Telephone, circa 1956
By GPO ( General Post Office )
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original GPO 200 series telephone. Red Bakelite with braided handset cord. Integral drawer and
Category
Mid-20th Century English Desk Sets
Materials
Bakelite
Enorme Telephone Handset designed by Ettore Sottsass for Brondi, Italy 1986
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Milano, IT
Enorme Telephone Handset designed by Ettore Sottsass for Brondi, Italy 1986
This telephone handset
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Desk Sets
Materials
Plastic
Grillo Folding Telephone by Marco Zanuso Richard Sapper with Box 1966
By Marco Zanuso, Richard Sapper
Located in San Diego, CA
Grillo (Cricket) folding telephone by Marco Zanuso Richard Sapper with the original box from 1966
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern More Desk Accessories
Materials
Plastic
Yellow Telephone Grillo by Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper for Siemens, 1965
By Siemens, Marco Zanuso, Richard Sapper
Located in MIlano, IT
Yellow telephone Grillo by Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper for Siemens, 1965
Grillo telephone
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Desk Sets
Materials
Metal
Vintage Retro Push-Button Round Telephone Burnt Orange Color from the, 70s
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Vintage bakelite push-button round telephone in burnt orange color from 70s to 80s.
Vintage
Category
Late 20th Century Canadian Post-Modern Desk Sets
Materials
Bakelite
Italian Modern Aqua Green Telephone Grillo by Zanuso Sapper for Siemens, 1965
By Siemens, Marco Zanuso, Richard Sapper
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern aqua green Telephone Grillo by Zanuso Sapper for Siemens, 1965
Telephone mod
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Modern Desk Sets
Materials
Plastic
Black telephone Grillo by Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper for Siemens, 1965
By Marco Zanuso, Siemens, Richard Sapper
Located in MIlano, IT
Black telephone Grillo by Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper for Siemens, 1965
Grillo telephone
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Desk Sets
Materials
Metal
Original 1967 GPO Model 706 Telephone in Ivory, Original Nylon Carrying Strap
By GPO ( General Post Office )
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original, 1967 GPO model 706 telephone in ivory. Original nylon carrying handle (not for
Category
Vintage 1960s English Art Deco More Desk Accessories
Materials
Bakelite
Original 1963 GPO Model 706 Telephone in Ivory, Original Nylon Carrying Strap
By GPO ( General Post Office )
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original, 1963 GPO model 706 telephone in ivory. Original nylon carrying handle (not for
Category
Vintage 1960s English Art Deco More Desk Accessories
Materials
Bakelite
Original 1967 GPO Model 706 Telephone in Red, Original Nylon Carrying Strap
By GPO ( General Post Office )
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original 1967 GPO model 706 telephone in Chinese red. Original nylon carrying handle (not for
Category
Vintage 1960s English Art Deco More Desk Accessories
Materials
Bakelite
Original 1972 GPO Model 746 Telephone in Red, Original Nylon Carrying Strap
By GPO ( General Post Office )
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original 1972 GPO model 746 telephone in Chinese red. Original nylon carrying handle (not for
Category
Vintage 1970s English Art Deco More Desk Accessories
Materials
Bakelite
Original 1961 GPO Model 706 Telephone in Ivory, On/Off Bell Feature
By GPO ( General Post Office )
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An original GPO model 706 telephone in ivory. 1961 'Bell On/Bell Off' feature. Original nylon
Category
Vintage 1960s English Art Deco More Desk Accessories
Materials
Bakelite
Italian space age Table dial telephone Bobo by Sergio Todeschini Telcer, 1970s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian space age Table dial telephone Bobo by Sergio Todeschini for Telcer, 1970s
Table dial
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Space Age Desk Sets
Materials
Metal
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Telephone Desk For Sale on 1stDibs
Find many varieties of an authentic telephone desk available at 1stDibs. Frequently made of plastic, bakelite and metal, every telephone desk was constructed with great care. Your living room may not be complete without a telephone desk — find older editions for sale from the 20th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. A telephone desk is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Mid-Century Modern, Art Deco and Scandinavian Modern styles are sought with frequency. Many designers have produced at least one well-made telephone desk over the years, but those crafted by GPO ( General Post Office ), Bang
Olufsen and Ettore Sottsass are often thought to be among the most beautiful.
How Much is a Telephone Desk?
Prices for a telephone desk can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, they begin at $128 and can go as high as $12,500, while the average can fetch as much as $695.
Finding the Right Desk-accessories for You
Whether you’ve carved out a space for a nifty home office or you prefer the morning commute, why not dress up your desk with antique and vintage desk accessories? To best tiptoe the line between desk efficiency and desk enjoyment, we suggest adding a touch of the past to your modern-day space.
Desks are a funny thing. Their basic premise has remained the same for quite literally centuries: a flat surface, oftentimes a drawer, and potentially a shelf or two. However, the contents that lay upon the desk? Well, the evolution has been drastic to say the least.
Thank the Victorians for the initial popularity of the paperweight. The Industrial Revolution offered the novel concept of leisure-time to Europeans, giving them more time to take part in the then crucial activity of letter writing. Decorative glass paperweight designs were all the rage, and during the mid-19th-century some of the most popular makers included the French companies of Baccarat, St. Louis and Clichy.
As paper was exceedingly expensive in the early to mid-19th-century, every effort was made to utilize a full sheet of it. Paper knives, which gave way to the modern letter opener, were helpful for cutting paper down to an appropriate size.
Books — those bound volumes of paper, you may recall — used to be common occurrences on desks of yore and where there were books there needed to be bookends. As a luxury item, bookend designs have run the gamut from incorporating ultra-luxurious materials (think marble and Murano glass) to being whimsical desk accompaniments (animal figurines were highly popular choices).
Though the inkwell’s extinction was ushered in by the advent of the ballpoint pen (itself quasi-obsolete at this point), there is still significant charm to be had from placing one of these bauble-like objets in a central spot on one’s desk. You may be surprised to discover the mood-boosting powers an antique — and purposefully empty — inkwell can provide.
The clamor for desk clocks arose as the Industrial Revolution transitioned labor from outdoors to indoors, and allowed for the mass-production of clock parts in factories. Naturally, elaborate designs soon followed and clocks could be found made by artisans and luxury houses like Cartier.
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