This is a Western Electric solid cast brass potbelly desk stand made for the American Bell Telephone Company. This model does not have a code number assigned to it but is listed as an 1895 cast brass desk stand in the 1936 Bell Telephone Laboratories Historical Museum documents. American Bell transmitter is marked on the back, short switch hook, OST pony receiver. Original base plate is intact. The closed loop switch hook would indicate that this was a later model, probably 1898 - 1899. Size 12" T.