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Sale 45: The Winter Sale

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Albright Advertising Covers (Telegraph to Tobacco)

Lot 908    

(Telephone) Holcomb's Improved Private-Line Telephones. Illustrated design on buff cover showing Holcomb's Duplex Amplifying Telephone, franked with 1881, 1¢ gray blue (s.e. at right) tied by Cleveland, O. oval handstamp, reverse with ad text and illustrations of Telephone Receivers, Very Fine.
Estimate    $150 - 200.

By far, the best known manufacturer of acoustic telephone equipment is J.R. Holcomb & Co. of Cleveland, Ohio. They designed and manufactured many different models of acoustic telephones, some exhibiting patent dates as early as 1878.

Realized: $105

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