Skip to main content

1940s Telephone

to
7
149
28
132
104
45
42
6
5
3
3
3
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
38
6
6
4
4
Sort By
14K Yellow Gold Antique Telephone Charm Pendant
Located in Atlanta, GA
14K Yellow Gold Antique Telephone Charm Pendant Year: 1940s Item Details: Metal Type: 14K Yellow
Category

Vintage 1940s Pendant Necklaces

Materials

Gold, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold

Original Vintage WWII Poster Careless Talk Costs Lives Telephone Box Fougasse
Located in London, GB
image of a person wearing a coat and hat, talking on the phone in a traditional English red telephone
Category

Vintage 1940s British Posters

Materials

Paper

Mathieu Matégot Black Coffee Table / Telephone Holder, circa 1950
By Mathieu Matégot
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Mid-Century Modern black coffee table and telephone holder designed by Mathieu Matégot
Category

Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

Materials

Metal

1940s New York Interior -- An Evening Scene of Artist and His Wife
Located in Soquel, CA
1940s New York Interior -- An Evening Scene of Artist and His Wife Wonderful moody 1940s New York
Category

1940s Ashcan School Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas, Cardboard

Original George Petty Pinup 'woman sitting with sunhat and phone
Located in Spokane, WA
Original George Petty pinup, woman sitting with big sunhat and telephone. Archivally linen backed
Category

1940s American Realist Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Art Deco WWII Military Strategy Chalk Teaching Globe on Stand by Denoyer-Geppert
Located in San Diego, CA
stand, circa 1940s. The globe is in good condition with original paint; there are several dents and
Category

20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures

Materials

Steel, Chrome

Table and Stool by Edward Wormley
By Edward Wormley, Dunbar Furniture
Located in Sagaponack, NY
An ebonized and polished dark mahogany telephone cabinet or vanity table having a storage drawer
Category

Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vanities

Materials

Mahogany

Table and Stool by Edward Wormley
Table and Stool by Edward Wormley
H 31 in W 22 in D 15 in
Original Vintage WWII Poster Future Progress Savings Industry Modernism Design
By Eric Fraser
Located in London, GB
shapes cut out like a plane with silhouettes of trees and shapes of a telephone and chair, a red dress on
Category

Vintage 1940s British Posters

Materials

Paper

Original Vintage Poster Don't Day-Dream WWII Air Force Pilot Safety Propaganda
Located in London, GB
dancer and a couple dancing together, a young lady on a telephone next to drinks on a table with a
Category

Vintage 1940s British Posters

Materials

Paper

Vintage Phone, 1930s/40s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage telephone is an original design object realized in the 1930s/40s. A brass and wood
Category

Early 20th Century Italian Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Brass

Vintage Phone, 1930s/40s
Vintage Phone, 1930s/40s
H 13 in W 10.24 in D 5.12 in
Large George Aarons Terracotta Sculpture Relief Art Deco Plaque WPA Artist
By George Aarons
Located in Surfside, FL
; the U.S. Post Office in Ripley, Mississippi; and at the Cincinnati Telephone Building; the Combined
Category

20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Terracotta

Brazilian Modern Phone in Table in Hardwood & Steel, Geraldo de Barros, Brazil
By Geraldo de Barros
Located in New York, NY
table was originally designed to be used as a station for the telephones of the time. It is made in
Category

Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Benches

Materials

Metal

Genuine Painting of Cheescake Pin up Girl by Gautier
By Gil Elvgren
Located in London, GB
Size 15” x 17.5” x 0.75” The Painting depicts a woman on the telephone in front of a dressing table
Category

Mid-20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

The Wise Ones - Three Rabbits Amongst a Broken Strand of Pearls, Original Oil
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1940's for her to come to the US on
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Burning Desire - Sable Mare with Flower & Butterfly Mane & Amber-Rose Background
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1940's for her to come to the US on
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

Pollinators - Two Figures in Flower Suits, Surrounded by Butterflies, Bright Sky
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
an ambulance in the early 1940's for her to come to the US on a steamer eighteen months later with
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Divine Intervention, White Persian Cat Standing on a Trump Doll, Oil Painting
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
, a seventeen year old Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1940's for
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Deanna, Make-Up Artist - Portrait of a Woman w/Curly Hair & Huge Hoop Earrings
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1940's for her to come to the US on
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Sacred Space - Original Oil Painting w/ Setting Sun Reflecting Romantic Colors
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1940's for her to come to the US on
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Sunburst, Rising Sun - Reflective Golden Clouds, Marshy Landscape, Original Oil
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
an ambulance in the early 1940's for her to come to the US on a steamer eighteen months later with
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Origin Story - Original Oil Painting w/ Setting Sun Reflecting Romantic Colors
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
an ambulance in the early 1940's for her to come to the US on a steamer eighteen months later with
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Midlife Madonna, Female in Teal and Red Silk Holding a Persian Cat, Oil Painting
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
an ambulance in the early 1940's for her to come to the US on a steamer eighteen months later with
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Eve of Destruction - Modern Interpretation of the Garden of Eden, Original Oil
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
an ambulance in the early 1940's for her to come to the US on a steamer eighteen months later with
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

Peace Cadet - Large Scale Portrait of Woman in Space Suit Surrounded by Bunnies
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
1940's for her to come to the US on a steamer eighteen months later with their nine-month-old baby boy
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

Church and Churchyard - Landscape Painting, Mid-20th Century, Oil Paint, Modern
By Joan Gillchrest
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Anglican Liverpool Cathedral, Battersea Power Station and the iconic and ubiquitous red telephone box
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Quiet Evening - Setting Sun and Rising Moon, Reflective and Romantic Colors
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1940's for her to come to the US on
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Come In Peace - Futuristic Woman in Space Suit Seated Next to a Bunny
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
, a seventeen year old Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1940's for
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

From the Vargas Portfolio
By Alberto Vargas
Located in Missouri, MO
illustrious career. His name has become synonymous with pin-up girls, but in the early 1940s, he was just a
Category

20th Century Realist Nude Prints

Materials

Lithograph

From the Vargas Portfolio
By Alberto Vargas
Located in Missouri, MO
illustrious career. His name has become synonymous with pin-up girls, but in the early 1940s, he was just a
Category

20th Century Realist Nude Prints

Materials

Lithograph

From the Vargas Portfolio
By Alberto Vargas
Located in Missouri, MO
illustrious career. His name has become synonymous with pin-up girls, but in the early 1940s, he was just a
Category

20th Century Realist Nude Prints

Materials

Lithograph

From the Vargas Portfolio
By Alberto Vargas
Located in Missouri, MO
illustrious career. His name has become synonymous with pin-up girls, but in the early 1940s, he was just a
Category

20th Century Realist Nude Prints

Materials

Lithograph

From the Vargas Portfolio
By Alberto Vargas
Located in Missouri, MO
illustrious career. His name has become synonymous with pin-up girls, but in the early 1940s, he was just a
Category

20th Century Realist Nude Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Cornish Fishing Boats at First Light. Mid-20th Century. Cornwall. Modern British
By Joan Gillchrest
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Anglican Liverpool Cathedral, Battersea Power Station and the iconic and ubiquitous red telephone box
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil, Board

Abstract Mixed Media Torn Paper Collage Pop Expressionist Painting
By Ronald Ahlstrom
Located in Surfside, FL
clubs during the late 1940s and 1950s. In 1958, he was awarded the William H. Bartels Prize of five
Category

20th Century Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media

Materials

Paint, Paper, Mixed Media

Abstract Mixed Media Torn Paper Collage Pop Expressionist Painting
By Ronald Ahlstrom
Located in Surfside, FL
clubs during the late 1940s and 1950s. In 1958, he was awarded the William H. Bartels Prize of five
Category

20th Century Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media

Materials

Paint, Paper, Mixed Media

Abstract Landscape - Mendham Suffolk 1965 - British Abstract landscape painting
By John Piper
Located in London, GB
conventional landscapes. His second in March 1940 at the Leicester Galleries, featuring several pictures of
Category

1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache

Bulldog, Drawing Study of a Brown and White Bulldog, Matted and Framed
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
an ambulance in the early 1940's for her to come to the US on a steamer eighteen months later with
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Waterco...

Materials

Archival Paper, Color Pencil

Mugler H&M Leather ankle boots black size US 8.5 EUR 41 UK 7.5 Limited Edition
By Thierry Mugler, Mugler
Located in London, GB
began designing clothes for Karim, already showing the broad-shouldered, 1940s-derived looks he would
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Shoes

1945 Abstract Landscape with Waterfall Watercolor Painting, Modernist Landscape
By Eve Drewelowe
Located in Denver, CO
an operation in 1940 at the Mayo Clinic for a gastric polyp, a dangerous procedure at that time
Category

1940s Abstract Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Original Vintage WWII Poster Careless Talk Costs Lives Telephone Box Fougasse
By Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird)
Located in London, GB
image of a person wearing a coat and hat, talking on the phone in a traditional English red telephone
Category

1940s More Prints

Materials

Paper

Original Vintage WWII Poster Future Progress Savings Industry Modernism Design
By Eric Fraser
Located in London, GB
shapes cut out like a plane with silhouettes of trees and shapes of a telephone and chair, a red dress on
Category

1940s More Prints

Materials

Paper

Original Vintage Poster Don't Day-Dream WWII Air Force Pilot Safety Propaganda
Located in London, GB
dancer and a couple dancing together, a young lady on a telephone next to drinks on a table with a
Category

1940s More Prints

Materials

Paper

Arizona Landscape with Horses; Mountains and Telephone Poles.
By Boris Lovet-Lorski
Located in Paris, FR
Telephone Poles. Watercolor, gouache and Ink on Paper - 23,2 x 15cm. A charming southern landscape from
Category

1940s Art Deco Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

India Ink, Watercolor

Humphrey Bogart on Telephone Fine Art Print
Located in Las Vegas, NV
performances in 1940s noir films such as The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, and The Big Sleep earned him status as
Category

1960s Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, C Print

Salesman's Sample Chippendale Chairs
Located in Palm Beach Gardens, FL
, please contact us by telephone. There is a link on every 1stdibs item page. Either way, if you first saw
Category

Mid-20th Century Chippendale Armchairs

Materials

Mahogany

Mid-1900s Red Gamewell Cast Iron Fire Alarm Master Box w/ Western Electric Phone
Located in Vineyard Haven, MA
condition, except for the 1930s-1940s Western Electric phone which has been converted to work on modern
Category

Mid-20th Century American American Colonial Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Iron

Late 40's-Early 50's-White Plastic Coil Summertime Handbag
Located in Oradell, NJ
This is a charming and unusual late 1940's-early 50's, white plastic coil summertime handbag. These
Category

20th Century Handbags and Purses

Rare Set of Four Pretzel Armchairs by Norman Cherner for Plycraft
By Plycraft, Norman Cherner, Lou App
Located in Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Columbia University, and was an instructor at MoMA in the late 1940s. There, he became steeped in the MoMA
Category

Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Armchairs

Materials

Plywood, Faux Leather, Beech

Landscape 6
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Marseille, FR
junior high and high school, and was graduated in 1940. That summer he studied painting and drawing from
Category

1960s Pop Art Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Landscape 6
Landscape 6
H 33 in W 41 in D 1 in
Art Deco Travel Clock by Europa Clock Company Containing Playing Cards
By Europa
Located in Daylesford, Victoria
France", and the open pack has "1's" instead of "Aces". The Outer clock edge of the Faux Leather case
Category

Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Table Clocks and Desk Clocks

Materials

Metal

1940's Telephone Table in Mahogany Designed by Jacques Adnet
Located in New York, NY
. Originally designed as a telephone table, this table makes a great side table or even as a
1940's Hollywood Telephone Table
Located in New York, NY
Glamorous side table/bench, originally used as a telephone table. Upholstered in
Category

20th Century Benches

1940's Hollywood Telephone Table
1940's Hollywood Telephone Table
H 31.5 in W 36.5 in D 19.5 in
1940's Florist Desk
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
stand in restaurant or telephone desk in a residence! Beautiful curves and industrial details.
Category

Vintage 1940s French Desks

Materials

Steel

1940's Florist Desk
1940's Florist Desk
H 62 in W 29.25 in D 27 in
40s Summer "Telephone Cord" Handbag
Located in Gresham, OR
A great little 1940s summer purse embellished with forest green, yellow, creme and beige "telephone
Category

1940s American Novelty Bags

Vintage 1940's Clear Lucite Square Box Purse
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a vintage 1940's clear hard plastic lucite square box purse. The purse has black bows on
Category

1940s Handbags and Purses

Rare Anne-Marie of Paris Deck of Cards Novelty Handbag 1940's
Located in Carmel, CA
Anne-Marie of Paris Deck of Cards Novelty Handbag 1940's Novelty war era and post war boutique in
Category

1940s French Handbags and Purses

Lilli Ann Vintage 2 pc. Lavender Skirt Suit, c. 1940's
By Lilli Ann
Located in Los Angeles, CA
couture salon during business hours. Please telephone us with any questions or if you wish to set up a
Category

1940s American Skirt Suits

Grosfeld House Style Hollywood-Regency Round White Mirror, 1940s
By Grosfeld House
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
1940s. It is hand-carved wood which has been painted white. For best net trade price or additional
Category

Mid-20th Century American Hollywood Regency Wall Mirrors

Materials

Wood

Neoclassical, American Art Deco Style Illuminated Mahogany Pedestal, 1940s
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
details for telephone numbers.
Category

Mid-20th Century American Art Deco Pedestals

Materials

Lucite, Mahogany

Pair of Maison Jansen Style Square Tables, Brass and Mirror, France, 1940s
By Maison Jansen
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This set of cocktail tables were recently purchased in London and date from the 1940s. They are
Category

Mid-20th Century French Hollywood Regency Coffee and Cocktail Tables

Materials

Brass

  • 1
Get Updated with New Arrivals
Save "1940s Telephone", and we’ll notify you when there are new listings in this category.

1940s Telephone For Sale on 1stDibs

At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal 1940s telephone for your home. Frequently made of wood, bakelite and plastic, every 1940s telephone was constructed with great care. Your living room may not be complete without a 1940s telephone — find older editions for sale from the 20th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. A 1940s telephone made by Art Deco designers — as well as those associated with Industrial — is very popular. GPO ( General Post Office ) and Jacques Adnet each produced at least one beautiful 1940s telephone that is worth considering.

How Much is a 1940s Telephone?

Prices for a 1940s telephone start at $145 and top out at $3,800 with the average selling for $826.