{"id":3748,"date":"2019-08-12T09:54:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themuseumoftelephony.wordpress.com\/?p=3748"},"modified":"2019-08-12T09:54:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:54:34","slug":"stromberg-carlson-1543-wall-telephone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/stromberg-carlson-1543-wall-telephone\/","title":{"rendered":"Stromberg Carlson 1543 Wall Telephone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was an addition in 2018 from someone on the Telephone Collector&#8217;s International Facebook group who offered to sell these as-is sets.<\/p>\n<p>It has not worked yet. It&#8217;s the most vintage of all my vintage telephones. As of this writing, I tried to get it to work this past weekend, but still to no avail. The earpiece (the receiver) was easy to unscrew and open, but the mouthpiece (the &#8220;transmitter&#8221;) is still sealed shut.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so vintage, that the handset cable is not coiled.<\/p>\n<p>It was likely made in the middle of the 20th Century.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3748 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/mycollection\/sc5\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sc5--150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"a picture of a Stromberg Carlson 500 telephone being unpacked\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sc5--150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sc5--300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sc5--100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/sc-4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sc-4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"a picture of a Stromberg Carlson 500 telephone with the case taken off\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sc-4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sc-4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sc-4-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/sc-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sc-3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"a picture of a stromberg carlson 500 series telephone from the 1950s. Originally posted on themuseumoftelephony.wordpress.com\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sc-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sc-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sc-3-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/sc-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sc-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"a picture of a stromberg carlson being unpacked. Originally posted on themuseumoftelephony.wordpress.com. Originally posted on themuseumoftelephony.wordpress.com\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sc-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sc-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sc-2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/sc-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sc-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"a picture of a Stromberg Carlson handset that is very heavy. Originally posted on themuseumoftelephony.wordpress.com\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sc-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sc-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sc-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>S.C. made some interesting industrial designs; meaning that this wall set was actually designed to be desk mounted, but with a couple of do-hickeys, flip the dial over, and the set could be hung on a wall.<\/p>\n<p>Their approach to wiring was radically different to Western. The &#8220;network&#8221; didn&#8217;t use confusing letters. The same screws used to hold the shell, was used to hold the spade, a soft, rounded flat-head screw.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B1ENNKkAGul\/<\/p>\n<p>In fact this set had some hidden documentation literally inside the set, which on an August 2019 weekend, more than a year after I acquired the set came to my surprise.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the only S.C. telephone in my possession.\u00a0 There is another one too.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll have to wait and see for that one.<\/p>\n<p>#<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was an addition in 2018 from someone on the Telephone Collector&#8217;s International Facebook group who offered to sell these as-is sets. It has not worked yet. It&#8217;s the most vintage of all my vintage telephones. As of this writing,&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/stromberg-carlson-1543-wall-telephone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[602,622,804,871],"class_list":["post-3748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mid-century","tag-model-1543","tag-rotary-telephone","tag-stromberg-carlson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}