Description
Vintage New England Telephone and Telegraph company gold filled pin. 1 1/8"<br>wide, great condition, first half of 20th century.<br><br>Right after the turn of the century the blue bell paperweights made their debut<br>within the Bell System appearing on employee's desk. It is believed Fenton Glass<br>Co. manufactured these paperweight starting around 1910 until 1930. The<br>individual companies within the bell system ordered these paperweights with<br>their names in white stencling on the front and Local & Long Distance Telephone<br>on the back side. However there several exceptions to this, two of them being<br>Mountain States Telephone and Western Electric Company. The blue paperweights<br>were manufactured in ice blue, peacock blue, and colbalt blue.<br>isshelf
