Posted 8 years ago
icompower
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NICKEL PLATED DOUBLE CURRENT KEY .This classic style GPO Double Current Key has the grand glass round top. c 1906.GPO FIVE TERMINAL DOUBLE CURRENT TELEGRAPH KEY. 009. .....A Double Current Post Office pattern key here with no serial number, Nickel Plated for use in the colonies.
Keywork is mounted on an ebonite slab, and the underframe is usually mahogany, but some makers, such as the Silvertown works, used teak wood.
What are the key worth ?Its in good condition and still in use
What colonies? Where is it from?
The key was used to send cw - morse code by the old postoffice around the world, I have one and seems its the only one left in the world,