Remember this?

Sure do; when I left my first company (20 years ago) to comne to Canada I was working with a phone from 1953 that I took home. It was made of ebonite if I remember correctly. Pretty much like this one. Nice macro, perfect lighting.

I remember them all too well. First and foremost my recall as a kid of living on a 10 party line. We had to listen for sequence of long and short rings to know if it was for us. Then we got placed on a 4 party line with individual ringing by the way the ringer was setup to receive the generator source. Oh, and then I worked in Dial Tone for 37 years too. Beyond all this unnecessary info.....I love the closeup photo of this unit. As a side note: Most all rotary dial single line desk sets like this were numbered as a 500 set by the various manufactures and when they went to multi-frequency or true touch tone as it was called the desk single lines had a 2 placed in front of the designation as a 2500 set. Not sure what the old quick-step dial ones were numbered as. They were in-between the two types and had touch keys, but they actually pulsed out the digits like a dial.

Yes, great lighting and feel - very film noir