Ken & Carolyn Sims Online Telephone Collection Auction #2 FreelandAuctionServices.com Begins Tuesday July 13, 2021 & Ends Saturday, August 7, 2021 PLEASE REGISTER ON PROXIBID.COM We have been commissioned by the family to liquidate the antique telephone collection of Ken & Carolyn Sims. This is the 2nd Auction of the Sims antique telephone collection. Ken was a member of the Antique Telephone Collectors Association, and a passionate telephone collector. Ken and Carolyn frequently came to ATCA Conventions all over the country for several decades and amassed one of the finest collections of antique telephone in the entire world. This collection is being presented ONLINE only and can be found on Proxibid.com or by visiting FreelandAuctionServices.com. There are 300 lots in this second online auction. Bidding will begin on Tuesday, July 13 and will end on Saturday, August 7 beginning at Noon. The timed auction will last 5 hours. Preview will be available at the Farmstead Inn in Shipshewana, Indiana in Conference Room 1 next to the Front Desk on Thursday, August 5th from 6pm-8pm, Friday August 6th from 9am-Noon and Saturday, August 7th by appointment only. Pickup will occur Saturday evening August 7th or Sunday from 8am until Noon as well as during the week of August 9th through 15th at the Freeland Antique Mall in Freeland, MI. Shipping is available, please communicate with Freeland Auction Services for your shipping needs. Please bid confidently, and enjoy this liquidation of a wonderful ATCA member’s collection. If you have any questions, please contact Barry at (989) 878-3308 with Freeland Auction Services as well as ATCA #3566. Detailed Listing of the telephone items in the 2nd Sims Telephone Collection: • Western Electric 1902 wooden PEG DIALER wall version • American Bell Telephone Company 1892 tapered shaft candlestick telephone • Monarch Telephone MFG Co Chicago IL nickel base candlestick telephone • Automatic Electric Co Chicago IL step base candlestick telephone with Mercedes Dial • Flint Sanitary GLASS Telephone Mouthpiece • Milk Glass VIADUCT Telephone mouthpiece • Swedish American Telephone Co. candlestick telephone • Williams-Abbott Electric Co Cleveland OH nickel candlestick telephone • nickel Automatic Electric Co Chicago IL step base candlestick telephone with Mercedes Dial • English black dial candlestick telephone in working condition • Pair of Western Electric Candlestick Telephones 20AL and 20B • marked American Electric GLASS Telephone mouthpiece • Porcelain telephone mouthpiece • Potbelly Candlestick Telephone with beveled edge transmitter marked "MESCO" • Stromberg Carlson Tapered Shaft Oil Can candlestick Telephone • Western Electric 1920s dial candlestick telephone • Sterling Electric FLUTED SHAFT Nickel Candlestick Telephone • unusual BROWN Kellogg POSTAL Candlestick Telephone • S. H. Couch nickel early 1900s Candlestick Telephone • American Bell Telephone Western Electric 20-B Candlestick phone • Western Electric early 1900s 20AL Candlestick Telephone • Western Electric thread GLASS MOUTHPIECE Telephone part • American Electric CHICAGO Porcelain Telephone Mouthpiece • rare marked American Electric GLASS Telephone Mouthpiece • unusual VICTOR Candlestick Telephone • unmarked Brown Bakelite LONG POLE Telephone receiver • Strowger Nickel Dial Candlestick Telephone with Glass Mouthpiece • rare C. HIGGINS Napoleon Ohio telephone handset pat 1894 • American Electric CHICAGO Porcelain Telephone Mouthpiece • Western Telephone Construction Long Pole Receiver with a marked cap • Beautiful American Electric Potbelly Candlestick Telephone • Western Electric nickel 20-B Candlestick Telephone • Western Electric PONY Receiver with marked cap • HY-G Glass telephone mouthpiece • Century Telephonesplit tapered shaft nickel Candlestick phone • miniature Wilhelm Fluted Shaft nickel candlestick telephone • Rope Shaft nickel miniature Candlestick Telephone • rare VIADUCT miniature Candlestick Telephone with Porcelain mouthpiece • original Stromberg Carlson miniature Candlestick Telephone • original American Electric Company Porcelain Telephone Mouthpiece • unusual Nickel Western Electric 20-P candlestick telephone • Western Electric #10 nickel Candlestick Telephone with Long Pole receiver • 1899 DeVeau Tapered Shaft multi line Candlestick Telephone • The Bell Telephone Company Of Canada Montreal LONG POLE Receiver • American Electric BURNS Terminal Top telephone receiver • Bakelite telephone long pole receiver • unusual BLAKE or Blake style transmitter with switchook on side • Western Electric Telephone diaphrams NOS for receivers • 20-B Nickel Candlestick Telephone very good condition • Western Electric brassed out Dial Candlestick Telephone with Pony receiver • Hush-A-Phone 1920s telephone attachment New York • Eurieult Paris unusual Wooden Candlestick Telephone France • 1880s primitive wooden terminal top telephone receiver • Long Pole antique telephone receiver brown bakelite • Holtzer Cabot wooden base fluted shaft miniature candlestick telephone • North Electric pot belly miniature candlestick telephone • Whisper It Glass Telephone Mouthpiece • late 1880s Long Pole brown bakelite telephone receiver • 1920s Stromberg Carlson round base desk telephone with WE parts • Kellogg Candlestick Telephone with UNION BANK Uhrichsville, OH Pencil Holder • Western Electric 1920s dial candlestick telephone with Writing attachment • Western Electric #10 nickel Candlestick Telephone with 7 digit transmitter faceplate • The Vought-Berger Company Telephones La Crosse WI unique apparatus • A. B. T. Co. nickel telephone transmitter in good condition 1890s • American Bell Telephone 7 Digit 2800446 nickel transmitter faceplate • American Bell Telephone 7 Digit 2913158 nickel transmitter faceplate • White porcelain telephone mouthpiece with threads • Glass telephone mouthpiece with thread insert • excellent original brown telephone long pole receiver • American Electric porcelain telephone mouthpiece • original Long Pole telephone receiver in good condition • Blake box and blake transmitter telephone part • National Telephone Co top box with Marked Receiver & transmitter 1894 • Long Pole antique telephone receiver bakelite • Pair of Candlestick Telephones Kellogg and Western Electric • Century Telephonesplit tapered shaft nickel Candlestick phone with Long Pole receiver • Western Electric B1 102 round base dial telephone from 1920s in working condition • rare Western Electric 5 Digit beveled edge nickel transmitter faceplace • FOUR antique candlestick telephones Kellogg, Stromberg Carlson and WE • Wooden terminal top telephone receiver • Eureka Telephone Transmitter faceplate • Wentworth & Blake Telephone Transmitter BOSTON MASS • "Long Distance" South Bend Indiana Telephone Transmitter & Cup • American Electric Telephone Co. BURNS terminal top receiver • Western Electric brass railroad candlestick telephone working condition • Three Candlestick telephones • Dean COSMO Candlestick Telephone with a steel receiver • Western Electric #10 tapered shaft candlestick telephone with PONY Receiver • Stromberg Carlson Tapered Shaft Oil Can candlestick Telephone • Pair of Terminal Top telephone Receivers Ericson & Solid • Terminal Top Telephone pony receiver • Wonderphone Candlestick Telephone transmitter on Kellogg phone • Terminal Top Telephone Pony receiver • CGNIE FSE Thomson Houston BTTS FRANCE Paris Candlestick Telephone • American Electric Company Chicago Porcelain Telephone Mouthpiece • "PURITY" Patented GLASS Telephone mouthpiece • Unusual hollow telephone mouthpiece • Stromberg Carlson Tapered Shaft Oil Can Candlestick Telephone with early faceplate • Paris France early Candlestick Telephone and ringer boxes • American Electric Fluted Shaft Candlestick Telephone with terminal top receiver • American Electric BURNS Terminal Top telephone receiver • Original Antique SKELETAL IRON "Eiffel Tower" desk telephone • Ste Fse de L'Hygeaphone 15 Rue Montmartre PARIS Type 10 No 21542 Candlestick Telephone • RARE Metal Metallic primitive Telephone Receiver/Transmitter • Williams Electric Cleveland Ohio Terminal Top telephone receiver • The Gray Telephone Pay Station #11 model for side mounting on wall phone • Propriete De L'ETAT Adjudtion 1929 LOT Modele 1910 Dunyach & Leclert PARIS Telephone • Gray Pay Station #14 Multi-Coin Portable Station with Western Electric candlestick phone • 1890s CLARK Candlestick unusual Telephone • Western Electric SP 20-R unusual early 1900s candlestick telephone • Gray Pay Station cast iron candlestick attachment holder • Gray Pay Station #14 Multi-Coin Portable Station with key • Century Split Shaft Nickel Candlestick Telephone • Gray Telephone Pay Station #11 model for side mounting on wood wall phone • • unusual wood wall telephone transmitter arm VERY UNIQUE • Gray Telephone Pay Station #11 model for side mounting on wood wall phone • Manhattan Transmitter Box on Oak Backboard • rare Prototype 1890s telephone handset marked 509 • Chicago Semi Potbelly oil can type candlestick telephone • rare Gray Telephone Pay Station model #8A with side bracket • Automatic Electric STROWGER DIAL Wall telephone • Unusual wood antique telephone transmitter • Gray Telephone Pay Station #14 model with candlestick attachments • Western Electric non-dial A1 1920s desk telephone • Brown bakelite Long Pole Telephone receiver • Western Electric 4 blade fan • Holtzer Cabot wooden base fluted shaft potbelly Candlestick Telephone • Viaduct oak telephone center box with possible Hunnings Transmitter • Gray Telephone Pay Station 3 Slot Coin Box model #11 with side mount • 2 antique telephone arms • rare SHAVER SYSTEM 1895 cast iron Telephone arm • Pair of Candlestick Telephones Western Electric 20DA & Leich Electric • GRAY Telephone Pay Station portable 3Slot payphone with AE Handset • Western Electric Telephone GLASS FRONT Top Box stamped 333221 • unusual European wooden desk telephone with Handset & mother-in-law receiver • National Telephone Co Top box 1890s walnut with crank and magneto • Gray Telephone Pay Station #10-A Shield Type Coin Collector on Wooden Wall phone • 1904 Western Electric model 130A Doughnut Phone w/5 patented dates • unusual Central Telephone & Electric Long Distance Transmitter Candlestick Telephone • Western Electric 20-S black candlestick telephone with number card holder • Western Electric 20AL candlestick telephone • Stromberg Carlson nickle perch and faceplate candlestick telephone • Pair of early 1900s candlestick telephones Western Electric & Leich • Western Electric #10 nickel Candlestick Telephone w/Terminal Top receiver • Western Electric brown bakelite Terminal Top Pony receiver • Viaduct walnut 1890s wall telephone with magneto • 1916 LC Mayer HIDE-A-PHONE candlestick telephone Art Deco accessory • Large 18" Public Telephone Sign Bell System 1940s original • Large South Central Bell Telephone sign • Western Electric nickel 20-PC candlestick telephone • Automatic Electric Step Base candlestick telephone with Mercedes dial • Local & Long Distance Telephone Bell System 1903 porcelain sign • Independent Local and Long Distance Telephone Porcelain Sign • 1939 Bell System Public Telephone porcelain telephone flange sign • Charles Williams Jr COFFIN Bell Telephone Co 109 Court St BOSTON • rare BERLINER'S UNIVERSAL TRANSMITTER wood telephone • Automatic Electric dial candlestick telephone • Group of wall telephone arms North Electric Western Electric • unusual Walnut Blake Style Wall Telephone Manhattan? • Stromberg Carlson ROMAN COLUMN miniature candlestick telephone • Rope Shaft nickel miniature Candlestick Telephone possibly Manhattan • The REXALL STORE Phone F. W. Bangs PORCELAIN TELEPHONE MOUTHPIECE • early unusual STRING PHONE 1880s with bell on top • rare wall version DeVeau Automatic Switchless doughnut telephone • 1879 WATTS TELEPHONE COMPANY Louisville, KY String Telephone • 1896 International Specialty Co. CHICAGO ILL compact wall telephone • 1879 WATTS TELEPHONE COMPANY Louisville, KY String Telephone • unusual long European Desk dial telephone • Oak Stromberg Carlson McKinley Wall Telephone with Porcelain Mouthpiece • Manhattan two box wooden wall compact telephone with Long Pole receiver • National Bell Telephone two box wooden wall telephone with watchcase receiver • Three antique telephone terminal top receivers • Pair of Terminal Top telephone receivers Pony and Long Pole • rare 50" Western Electric GLASS FRONT Tandem Oak Wall Telephone • Erickson Terminal Top telephone receiver • American Electric pony terminal top receiver • Western Electric marked Pony terminal top receiver • Western Electric LONG POLE terminal top telephone receiver • excellent Terminal Top LONG POLE telephone receiver brown bakelite • Terminal Top long pole telephone receiver • Terminal Top LONG POLE Telephone receiver • Long Pole terminal top telephone receiver brown bakelite cap • Long Pole terminal top telephone receiver brown bakelite cap • rare RED Western Electric telephone mouthpiece ORIGINAL • 1880s primitive wooden wall pull out string telephone • early 1900s walnut Stromberg Carlson Fiddleback wall telephone • 1893 Stromberg & Carlson compact wall telephone EXTREMELY RARE • • 1893 The Harrison International Telephone Company rare Wall Telephone • Gray Pay Station #2 Automatic SILVER DOLLAR Payphone Western Electric 240-A • Swedish American Telephone Co. CHICAGO unusual compact wall telephone • unusual wooden wall telephone SPEAKING Tube style 1890s • American Electric Co. 79" Oak Standing Tandem Telephone w/Glass Front Top Box • 1897 Stromberg Carlson Oak 54" Wall Tandem Telephone • 1891 Western Electric 76" Oak wall tandem telephone • • • • • Bell Telephone Co of Canada Montreal Walnut 3 box Blake Telephone • The D.A. Kusel Telephone Mfg. Co. St. Louis, MO 1894 wall 3 box telephone • Automatic Electric STROWGER Dial Wall Telephone for COMPANY EXECUTIVE • North Electric TOP LOADER Oak wall telephone • 3 Box Walnut VIADUCT wall telephone • Chas. A. Casperke Electrical Supplies Brandenburg, KY Oak wall telephone • unusual PLUMMER, HAM, & RICHARDSON Worcester, MASS Telephone with Samson Transmitter • 1891 GLASS FRONT Western Electric Company Telephone Top Box • Unusual Oak Wall Telephone Williams-Abbot nickel Transmitter • 1917 L.C. Mayer EUPHONIA *Hide-A-Phone* for hiding Candlestick Telephone in mansions • Wilhelm Telephone Manufacturing Co. Buffalo, NY The Wilhelm Double Diaphragm Transmitter telephone • Stromberg Carlson McKinley style wall telephone with Triplet arm and transmitter • unusual Primitive String Telephone from 1880s with PULLOUT transmitter • 3 box Oak Viaduct wall paddle phone telephone • • unusual 33" large double box wall telephone with Pony Receiver Viaduct? • Walnut 3 box Property of Bell Telephone Company of Canada BLAKE wall telephone • American Bell Telephone Co. 3 Box wall telephone Blake Transmitter • Walnut 3 box Property of American Bell Telephone Co. Telephone with Glass battery jar • unusual Viaduct BALTIMORE 3 box wood wall telephone • 52" Stromberg Carlson Grave Marker Top Oak LARGE Wall Telephone • Elliott Telephone Co. Indianapolis, IN Wall Telephone with Milde Transmitter • 1896 Oak wide 3 jug Wall Telephone with Long Pole receiver • Viaduct Baltimore wall telephone with Transmitter arm on top and Paddle in middle • Manhattan 3-box wall telephone with unmarked Blake Transmitter • Sterling Electric Lafayette IN Tandem wall telephone 44" tall • Western Electric 1913 oak wall telephone switchboard • unique American Electric tandem wall telephone with Pony receiver • American Electric Telephone Co. Chicago Oak Ten Station wall switchboard • unique Stromberg Carlson OAK Telephone tandem switchboard wall unit • Pittsburgh & Allegheny Telephone Co. rare Fiddleback Telephone • Western Electric Type 294 A Fiddleback wall telephone with 7 Digit Transmitter • Western Electric 1894 Wall telephone with #5 arm and pony receiver • Varney Electric Supply Co. Indianapolis IN Independent System Oak Wall telephone • William-Abbott Electric Co Cleveland OH Glass Front Wall tandem • Williams-Abbott Electric Co Cleveland OH Glass Front Wall Tandem • Western Electric 1880s walnut telephone bottom box • Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co. FIDDLEBACK Wall telephone with MAXIM Glass mouthpiece • unknown late 1890s double box wooden wall telephone • Stromberg Carlson unique fiddleback oak wall telephone with embossed faceplate • American Bell Telephone Co. Walnut 1901 fiddleback wall telephone Western Electric • late 1880s 3 box wall telephone unknown maker possibly Manhattan or Viaduct • Standard Telephone & Electric Co. Madison WI oak wall telephone with Milde Transmitter • Baird Midget Phone Oak Wooden Wall Telephone • Chicago Telephone Supply Co. oak Glass Front tandem wall telephone • Western Union Telephone Co. Main Line Sounder 15B 120-OHM • Western Electric railroad Candlestick scissors telephone with cast iron mount • Scannevin & Potter Newport Rhode Island HOLTZER's Patent telephone intercom system • The Modern Telephone Co. Indianapolis Indiana Oak Tandem wall telephone • unusual Oak Wall WONDERPHONE Telephone Universal High Power Tel Co Seattle Washington • American Bell Telephone Co Western Electrc 1901 Walnut Fiddleback wall telephone • Bell Telephone Co Historical Model of First Telephone Transmitter from 1875 • very unusual black Four terminal transmitter • The Lambert Schmidt Telephone Manufacturing Co wall telephone patented 1900 • Oak 3 box Viaduct wall telephone • Central Telephone & Electric St. Louis MO Wall Telephone with WORLD'S FAIR TRANSMITTER • Standard Telephone & Electric Co. Madison WI oak wall telephone with Milde Transmitter • McLean Electric Greencastle, IN Oak Wall tandem telephone • Acme Electric Co. Chicago IL Oak wall tandem telephone • Oak Stromberg Carlson Telephone Co. long tandem wall phone with embossed faceplate • Chicago Genuine Solid Back wall telephone Elkhart Indiana OAK GLASS FRONT Double Box • unusual INTERNATIONAL Telephone Co. Oak picture frame wall telephone • Large Oak Chicago Telephone Supply Co. Elkhart Indiana TANDEM Wall telephone • Western Electric Type 21 walnut double box wall telephone from 1893 • Williams Electric Cleveland Ohio Oak double box wall telephone • 1883 American Bell Telephone Western Electric walnut Double Box telephone with #5 arm • Chicago Telephone Supply Co. Oak double box wall telephone • unusual HENRY L ELSTON Telephone & Electric Supplies Muscoda WI Oak bottom box • Central Telephone & Electric St. Louis MO Oak Fiddleback telephone • unusual COUCH small wall telephone intercom with bell and watchcase receiver • 1880 Watts Telephone Company Louisville KY string telephone • J. R. Holcomb & Co Cleveland Ohio STRING Telephone Patented in United States & Canada • unique 1880s primitive String Telephone • Western Electric model 130A Doughnut round wall telephone • FARR Telephone Co Chicago Oak Double Box wall phone with Long Pole receiver • Vought-Berger Co. La Crosse Wisconsin Wall Telephone • The Northern Electric & Manufacturing Co. LTD hotel style intercom wooden telephone • unknown 1880s primitive wooden transmitter or string telephone • Western Electric 1894 Walnut Fiddleback wall telephone • Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co. Chicago Oak wooden wall telephone • Western Electric double box wall telephone 1890s with Long Pole receiver • 1893 Western Electric Type 21 walnut wall telephone with #5 arm and Pony receiver • 1890s Western Electric unusual wall switchboard with Terminal Top receiver • 1893 Walnut Western Electric double box wall telephone with #5 arm and Glass Mouthpiece • Modern Telephone Co. large tandem double box wall telephone 42" tall • rare American Electric Telephone Co. Kokomo Indiana HUNNINGS PATENT 3 box telephone • rare Williams Telephone Supply Co Cleveland Ohio Oak fiddleback style telephone with Hush-A-Phone • unusual Oak wooden wall telephone withTime clock and switchboard equipment • S.H. Couch Co. Boston Mass AUTOPHONE unusual 50 station dial telephone • • American Electric Telephone Co. Chicago Oak wall telephone with swingaway arm • 1896 Stromberg Carlson Oak double box telephone with Nickel bottom receiver • 1896 Stromberg Carlson light Oak double box telephone with nickel bottom receiver • unusual Keystone Telephone Co walnut double box wall telephone • Chicago Genuine Solid Back wall telephone Elkhart Indiana OAK Double Box • Oak Chicago Telephone Supply Company fiddleback with beveled edge Chicago transmitter • late 1880s Viaduct walnut 3 box wooden wall telephone with Blake style transmitter • The New State Telephone Company of Michigan Oak large tandem wooden wall telephone • H.C. Tafel Electric Supplies 3 box wooden wall telephone Louisville Kentucky • 1894 National Telephone Company Boston Mass wall telephone