Stromberg-Carlsen Majestic Antique Cathedral-back Telephone

I first became intrigued with wooden box type phones when I was a small child. Lassie (the TV show) was one of my favorites as a child and a wooden phone was used in their TV kitchen. One afternoon when I was 7 or 8 yrs old, my dad and mom took my sister and me for a walk in the woods.

We came across an old building that was boarded up. Peeking in the window I remember seeing a desk with papers on it, some writing materials and an old lamp. Then I saw it. It was the Stromberg-Carlsen Majestic Antique Cathedral-back Telephone.

Ever since that day back in the early 1960's I often thought about that phone. One day while assigned out in California, I was attending an antique show in nearby Reno, Nevada. When I walked in, there it was. I paid $125 for it. I cleaned it up, sent it off to the restorer for the electrical components and it is now in my home in NJ waiting for me to find a sturdy enough wall to hang it on. It weighs aroung 40 pounds.