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The pokerdaddy Model 202 telephone pokerdaddy was produced by Western Electric from 1930 through 1936. It is sometimes pokerdaddy referred to informally as a "Depression phone" since the years of its manufacture coincide pokerdaddy with the core period of the Great Depression.The 202 was a modified version pokerdaddy of the earlier Model 102 telephone phone; the latter, introduced in 1928, was the first telephone to include the transmitter and receiver in a single handset. The 102 had a round base, while the 202 was slightly pokerdaddy larger and had

an oval base.The vast majority of Model 202 phones were produced in a single pokerdaddy color — black — but examples of the phone in many other colors can also be found. Barbara Stanwyck pokerdaddy talked on an ivory Model 202 phone in the 1948 motion picture Sorry, Wrong Number.The first Model 202 phones featured a handset which included a recessed area, known colloquially pokerdaddy as a "spit cup," on the transmitter; this was eliminated pokerdaddy about halfway through the phones production run.In 1951 Western Electric salvaged parts from pokerdaddy used Model 202 phones, plated the housing in brass and painted the handset ivory, and released the set as the "Imperial" model — the companys first-ever marketing of a "retro" phone.Telephony