Before earphone were computers , television camera , and gaming devices , they were , well , phones . An upcoming auction fromBruneau & Co.is channelize bidders back to that clip with near 100 slice of vintage phone memorabilia .

“ Verizon ’s Telephone Pioneers Museum Collection Auction " featuresrare itemsspanning more than a century of phone history . When The Telephone Pioneers of America was founded in 1911 , it included some of the most influential figures in the telecommunications cosmos , including Alexander Graham Bell . Today the grouping is better screw as thePioneersvolunteer meshing , and members run to preserve artifacts related to the telephone .

Now , Pioneers is preparing to shut down two of its museums , and it ’s sending dozens of items to the auction block . Some of the most challenging piece going up for sale let in the rotary phone Dwight Eisenhower used at his “ Summer White House ” in Newport , Rhode Island , and afloor boardtaken from Alexander Graham Bell ’s laboratory . Bidders will also find switchboard , vintage remuneration phone mansion , and a variety show of styles of old phone dating from the1980sall the path back to the19th century .

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All item are listed at an estimated price of $ 10 to $ 10,000 . you may entreat on an artifact online or at the Bruneau & Co. auction firm in Rhode Island on August 4 .

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Personal telephone of president Dwight D. Eisenhower.

An early example of the first long distance double pole receiver.

AT&T official telephone of the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics.

Magneto telephone, circa 1891.

Rare Western Electric 302 rose rotary phone, circa 1953.