Showing the indentations below the handset which gave it the nickname ‘Ashtray’.
The indentations were designed to provide an off-hook rest for the handset.
Known as the ‘Ashtray’, due to the indentations in the body below the ends of the handset, the Kellogg 925 was one of the distinctive designs of phone produced in the 1930s to compete with the Western Electric phones largely used in the Bell System.
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