SIT type 10

SIT type 10
SIT type 10

SIT, Société Industrielle des Téléphones, type 10. This model was manufactured by several different manufacturers to an original design by a firm called Marty.

This is a local battery telephone, which means it needed a battery to power the microphone.

SIT type 10 side
SIT type 10 side

Like many French telephones it has an extra receiver, or mother in law receiver. This one is of the bull ring type, named after the rings they used to put through bull noses.