C. 1930s Western Electric Rotary Phone in Old White Paint, Ashland 4-5111 meatal 3 1/2" x 2 1/4"

3 1/2" x 2 1/4" x 15/16" t

The red on the corners appears to comes from being painted on the underside of the glass

This is a lovely Penobscot (Native New England) splint ash and sweetgrass basket woven around a glass jar to serve as a vase

My guess is that it dates from the 40s or early 50s and was once part of a longer train

C. 1930s Western Electric Rotary Phone in Old White Paint, Ashland 4-5111 meatal 3 1/2" x 2 1/4"Not just a great looking old phone, delivering all of the pleasures of rotary dialing, but this early model Western Electric was also given a custom paint job long ago and nothing better to my eye than old creamy white paint. And with original alphanumeric number at the center of the dial: AS(hland) 4 5111, I believe for Ashland, MA reminding one that phones were once linked to specific places! These Western Electric phones were the first widely