c. 1950s Automatic Electric Three-Slot Payphone drawers crate and adding a distressed

crate and adding a distressed frame

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The leather has developed some weathering and patina over its life

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c. 1950s Automatic Electric Three-Slot Payphone drawers crate and adding a distressedAntique rotary payphone manufactured by Automatic Electric Co. (1901 1983), Chicago, IL. This particular phone was owned by GTE Ameritech, a Midwest provider for Regional Bell Operating Company (bought out and owned by SBC Communications from 1999 2006 and then AT&T from 2006 onwards.). It served the Royalton (Franklin County, southern Illinois) 618 area for an undisclosed period of time; likely up until the early 1980s when GTE became defunct. Due to