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Early DANISH WOOD WALL TELEPHONE by KRISTIAN KIRKS for JYDSK TELEPHONE AUTHORITY
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PLEASE CHECK OUR OTHER items FOR MORE EXAMPLES OF EARLY ANTIQUES & FOUND WITH DOUBLE BELLS, THIS EXAMPLE OF AN EARLY WOOD WALL PHONE, TYPICALLY REFERRED TO AS A COFFIN STYLE, WAS MANUFACTURED BY KRISTIAN KIRKS TELEFONFABRIKKER OF HORSENS, FOR THE JYDSK, OR JUTLAND, TELEPHONE AUTHORITY, LIKELY DURING THE 1910-1920s ERA. MANUFACTURE OF TELEPHONES BY THIS FIRM WAS LATER TRANSFERRED TO THE CAPITAL, COPENHAGEN, AND CONTINUED IN VARIOUS GUISES UNTIL PERHAPS THE MID 1960s.
HAVING A SUBSTANTIAL WOOD BACKBOARD, MEASURING 27\" LONG AND 10.25\" WIDE OVERALL. WHEN MOUNTED, THIS EXAMPLE EXTENDS OUT FROM THE WALL 9.5\" TO THE EDGE OF THE SLANTED SHELF. OVERALL, WEIGHING AN IMPRESSIVE 18 1/2 POUNDS.
AT THE TOP, A DOMED METAL BELL SHAPED \"CUP\" WITH A NICKEL THUMB SCREW, DETACHES TO REVEAL WIRING, AND IS FINISHED WITH BROWN PAINT, MATCHING THE WOOD GRAIN. BELOW, A PAIR OF NICKEL FINISHED METAL RINGER BELLS ARE MOUNTED. BELOW, A WOOD SHELF MOUNTED ON FLANKING VERTICAL SERPENTINE SUPPORTS FRAME THE WOOD GRAIN FINISH METAL FRONT CABINET, HAVING A RAISED PANEL AT CENTER, WITH A MATCHING SCALLOPED WOOD BASE.
AT THE SIDE, A NICKEL FINISH METAL PLATE SURROUNDS THE CAST METAL SWITCH HOOK, HAVING AN ORNATE BALL FINIAL, FROM WHICH THE EUROPEAN STYLE RECEIVER. THE WOOD RECEIVED HANDLE IS PAINTED BLACK, WITH \"CARVED\" STRIATIONS MIMICING WOOD GRAIN, AND PERHAPS SIMPLY INTENDED TO PROVIDE A GOOD GRIP, FLANKED BY TURNED RIBS AT EITHER END. NICKEL PLATED SPEAKER AND RECEIVER HARDWARE IS MOUNTED WITH A BLACK BAKELITE EAR PIECE AND TRUMPET SHAPED MOUTH PIECE. CONNECTED WITH A BLACK FABRIC COVERED CORD, IN NICE CONDITION.
THE CABINET CAN BE OPENED WITH A KEYHOLE AT THE LEFT SIDE, SURROUNDED BY A NICKEL FINISHED METAL ESCUTHEON PLATE. EVEN SO, ONE MUST REMOVE THE RINGER CRANK AT THE RIGHT SIDE TO OPEN THE CABINET COMPLETELY. NO KEY, BUT THE LOCK CAN EASILY BE RELEASED USING A SMALL SCREWDRIVER.
AT THE TOP EDGE OF THE SHELF, A CLEVER NICKEL PLATE THUMB PLATE CAN BE LIFTED TO HOLD DOWN PAPERS, QUITE IN THE MANNER OF A CLIPBOARD.
BELOW THE BELLS, ON THE CENTER RAISED METAL WOODGRAIN PANEL, GOLD APPLIED LETTERING READS KRISTIAN KIRKS TELEFONFABRIKKER A/S. ~ HORSENS. ~ ON THE RAISED VERTICAL RIB AT THE FRONT CENTER OF THE LOWER METAL CABINET COVER, GOLD APPLIED LETTERING READS JYDSK TELFFON ~ AKTIESELSKAB.
DUSTY, WITH NO OVERT ISSUES, DESPITE SOME MINOR SCRATCHES IN PLACES ON THE METAL CABINET, PERHAPS NOTABLE AT THE LEFT SIDE WHERE THE REAR OF THE METAL MOUTHPIECE MOUNT HAS SCRAPED THE FINISH, WHEN HUNG IN REVERSE, OVER THE YEARS.
WHEN THE MAGNETO IS CRANKED AT THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE CABINET, THE PAIR OF BELLS RING AS INTENDED, WITH A NICE TONE.
OVERALL, A FINE VINTAGE EXAMPLE, AND PERHAPS WITH SOME EFFORT AND COMPONENTS, THIS EXAMPLE COULD BE CONVERTED FOR ACTUAL USE TODAY ~ EVEN SO, AS PRESENTED, THIS EXAMPLE WOULD BE QUITE STRIKING AND IMPRESSIVE SIMPLY MOUNTED AS IS.
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KRISTIAN KIRKS TELEFONFABRIKKER A/S.
KIRK telecom A / S is a Danish company, which today is part of the American company Polycom . The name KIRK is used still for some product categories. The company was originally founded in Horsens in 1892 as Emil Moller Phone Factory. The company still has its registered office in Horsens on Langmarksvej 34. The firm through its company, created a large number of phones that were common in Denmark in the latter half of the 20th century.
The company had a 1950 addresses of ~ Madevej 41, Horsens, Fredensgade 17, Aarhus and Nikolaj Plads 25, Copenhagen .
Manufacturer Emil Moller founded his company in Horsens in 1892 . 6 June 1917, and the firm was later amalgamated with the company Niels Geertsens electromechanical Factory, founded in 1906, in Aarhus, and became a public limited company under the name Emil Moller Telephone factories A / S . , the share capital was DKK 1,200,000
Miller was director until 1923, but remained until his death in 1925 as chairman of the board. 1923 was an engineer Kristian Kirk Chief Director of factories and in 1926 also Chairman of the Board. In 1935 he died and was succeeded by his brother. In 1940 was Kristian Kirk\'s son Gregers Kirk Chief Director and Chairman of the Board, which he occupied until his untimely death in 1967 . During Gregers Kirk\'s leadership grew the plant to a large group .
1944 was a branch factories in Copenhagen . In addition to the phones included Kirk Group manufacture of electronic equipment, machinery and fishmeal and trade of photographic equipment, paper, books and toys. After heavy losses in an office in Glostrup , Haka-Kirk Breads, entered the group in 1970 in liquidation.
In 2005 sold the then director Peter Skov Kirk Telecom to the U.S. company Spectralink and the company changed its name in 2006 to KIRK telecom A / S, a SpectraLink Company.
In 2007, Spectralink acquired by Polycom for the sum of $ 220 million which the company changed its name to KIRK ApS - now part of Polycom later, the name changed to Polycom (Denmark) ApS,
In 2012 sold Polycom, their wireless division (Old Spectralink and Kirk Telecom) to investment firm Sun Capital Partners Inc a sum of $ 111 million, The Old Kirk Telecom was to Spectralink Ltd. December 2012.
HISTORY OF EARLY TELEPHONES
The telephone was introduced by Alexander Graham Bell at a world\'s fair, the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The first commercial telephone followed shortly thereafter in 1877. Resembling a wood box camera, these camera or box phones, as they were variously called, lacked separate receivers and transmitters.
In fact, Bells failure to develop a powerful enough transmitter for his telephone allowed others to gain a toehold in this burgeoning market, which is why many late-19th-century wood telephones bear multiple patent numbers and names, including Emile Berliner, who would go on to invent the gramophone in 1887, and Thomas Edison, who was hired by Bell competitor (PROHIBITED TEXT NOT ALLOWED BY ) telegraph company.
Wood wall-mounted coffin telephones were the first phones put into wide circulation. Typically tall and bulky, they needed several compartments to hold the batteries and magneto (a hand cranked generator to signal an operator who actually placed the call). The earliest and most valuable wood phones were made by Charles Williams, Jr. of Boston. Williams had been an early telegraph manufacturer, and also made hardware for Edison and Bell. Coffin phones from the late 1870s produced by Williams for Bell were frequently made of mahogany and sometimes featured Blake transmitters and Roosevelt automatic switch hooks.
Another type of wood wall phone was the three-box telephone, which featured a receiver and bells on the top box, a transmitter in the middle box, and a battery box at the bottom, with a flat or inclined horizontal surface for jotting down notes. One of Bells former suppliers, Western Electric, made wood wall phones. Later, in 1882, Bell took over the company and turned it into its manufacturing division.
By the end of the 1880s, handsome hardwoods such as walnut and cherry were used to manufacture the housings for wood phones, but in the 1890s, phones were being mass-produced of oak. New shapes such as the fiddleback were also gaining popularity as a more stylish alternative to the boxy coffin. But as technology improved, wall phones were pushed aside by newer, more compact candlestick telephones, although wood phones continued to be manufactured until World War USE THE \"CONTACT SELLER\" FUNCTION TO CONTACT US AND RESOLVE ANY QUESTIONS BEFORE offerDING
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