Telephone Communications Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a 1983/1984 Bell Telephone Breakup Green Glass Paperweight. A very nice green glass, shaped like a bell, paperweight commemorating the 1983 breakup of the Bell Telephone System; close to the base with raised letters reads "The Breakup...

ARTIFACT: This is a Beautiful Southern California Telephone Company Employee Badge #1987 by Irvine & Jachens. VINTAGE: 1987 SIZE: Approximately 2-5/16" in height x 2-1/16" in width. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Enameled, nickel-plated brass...

ARTIFACT: This great old celluloid badge is for an Air Raid Precautions Warden or Air Raid Warden working for the NE Tel. & Tel. Co. It is quite large and reads around the outer edge: NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Inside this is a large...

ARTIFACT: This is a 14 karat gold pin for forty years of service with the D. S. T. Company. The octagonal pin reads 40 DST CO TELEPHONE PIONEERS OF AMERICA and shows a bell reading BELL COMPANY within a triangle. VINTAGE: Circa 1960s. SIZE: 1/2"...

ARTIFACT: This is a postal hat badge of unknown vintage and possibly French origin. It is a wreath of laurels with the letters PTT at center, which probably stand for Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones (Postal, Telegraph and Telephone), a French...

ARTIFACT: This is a great sterling silver World War II telephone operators/workers "V for Victory" service lapel pin. The pin is by Metal Arts of Rochester, New York. VINTAGE: Circa World War II. SIZE: Approximately 7/8" in height and...

ARTIFACT: Very cool 1970's PacBell 15 year service award bracelet in 10K gold and stainless steel ??? very '70's! The center of the bracelet is an affixed outline of the state of California in yellow 10K gold with a small medallion that features the...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1950s Western Electric Telephone Company pendant for 15 years of service. VINTAGE: Circa 1950's. SIZE: About 1" in width x 1-1/4" in height. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Gold-filled . ATTACHMENT: Loop to hang on chain...

ARTIFACT: Cool 1940's ??? 1950's Bell Telephone Company employee badge. The gilt brass badge is in the shape of a vintage rotary telephone with a bell in the center of the rotary dial. The employee badge is numbered "75" in debossed detail...

ARTIFACT: 1940's ??? early 1950's Durham, North Carolina Telephone Company 10 Year Service pin by Morgan's. The center of the lapel pin features a nicely detailed black enamel rotary phone and surrounding it reads: "DURHAM TELEPHONE COMPANY" in embossed...

ARTIFACT: Great circa 1930's New England Telephone & Telegraph / AT&T Bell System two-sided Telephone Payments Porcelain Sign. The 'L' Flange sign is dark blue and white and displays the NE T&T emblem in the center ??? a blue bell with the...

ARTIFACT: Great WWII "TELEPHONE MEN & WOMEN IN WAR ??? NEW YORK TELEPHONE COMPANY", . The large book contains the service history of all the employees of The New York Telephone Company who served in WWII, a wonderful tribute that honors the...