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This is a 1983 Telehelper Speakerphone made by Western Electric. It was sold at a PhoneCenter Store under the American Bell brand before AT&T decided to just use its own name after the divestiture. This example is complete with all of its documentation, including the original receipt, along with some unusual papers relating to divestiture.
Archivist's notes: This Speakerphone is a very clean example, although I doubt it was used very much because it did still have the original battery that came installed in it courtesy of the PhoneCenter Store. I did clean it up a bit, as there was some sort of crud on the plastic cover. It did not come with the two foot cable though. This is one of my favorite pieces of Bell System history that I own because it is so specific to a single year and it still has all of the paperwork, including the scrap paper that the service information stick came with. Overall, really cool.
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