C. 1930s Western Electric Rotary Phone in Old White Paint, Ashland 4-5111

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 distributed phones that adopted the use of a single handset rather than a separate transmitter and receiver--here with a fabulous sculptural shape to the speaking end, making one think of the term "horn" as slang for telephone.  Model number E-1, 1930s, with a cloth cord, painted as well. Handset approx 9 1/4" l. Phone stands approx 6 1/4" t. Some fraying to the cord where it meets the handset. Otherwise, general wear and aging to the paint, all to the good I think.