[NJARC] What's a Masterphone?

[Stephen Adamec]

A "Masterphone" was a brand name of sorts for a series of telephones manufactured by Kellogg. The links below show two in the series. Essentially, they were fashionable, designer phones.

http://www.collectorville.com/photos-ke/kel-900-589.jpg
http://www.collectorville.com/photos-ke/kel-925-602.jpg


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From: "amagoun" <amagoun at davidsarnoff.org>
To: "NJARC" <njarc at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: "Saretzky Gary" <saretzky at comcast.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 8:47 PM
Subject: [NJARC] What's a Masterphone?


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> _______________________________________________
> Gary Saretzky, Monmouth County archivist, came across this device in an ad for in the December 7,
> 1921, issue of the Red Bank Register:
> 
> Santa Talks to Children.
> 
> Bring the children to Foxwell's, Monmouth street, and let them hear
> Old Santa himself talk direct to them through the Masterphone. It will
> delight them and will also be very interesting to you. There's absolutely
> no obligation on your part in calling at Foxwell's and asking to
> hear Santa speak.-
> 
> That's just slightly cleaned up from the highlight/copy/paste functions: amazing what you can do
> with PDF technology, in't?  For the rest of the 28 pages in high resolution, visit
> www.mtpl.org/data/rbr/1920-1929/1921/1921.12.07.pdf.
> 
> Does anyone know whether a Masterphone is a telephone, talking machine, or even a radiotelephone?
> Gary couldn't get a clear answer searching the internet.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Alex
> 
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